The word "congenial" is beaten into the ground, repeatedly deployed to describe any fellow politician whom Clarke likes but can't be bothered to portray.
Given that, he might find Alter's new book congenial.
The name the men had conceived for the product — Snapple, a portmanteau word embodying a congenial marriage of "snappy" and "apple" — was retained for the company as a whole.
"You lose that connection when the period gets added".The original version of Jefferson's words, Ms Allen argues, presents a vision of society less congenial to libertarians and more to modern-day liberals.
Toward the memoir's end, there are a few hopeful developments: the hero acquires spectacles for his deteriorating eyesight; he discovers the highly congenial novels of Samuel Beckett; he generates, in recreational computer time, out of words from Pablo Neruda, some "pseudo-poems" that are published in a Cape Town magazine and make a small local sensation.
"She is a very congenial colleague," said Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, sounding surprised at his own words.
Other than some film clips of interviews with those who had worked with Rodgers or knew him well -- my own included among them -- the words spoken on stage were all those of Richard Rodgers -- with the congenial help from the knowledgeable Ted Chapin who has worked for R&H for many years.
"I'd find it much more congenial to be ordering around 100,000; it's just hard to get all those many, many words into their right places".
It would be hard to say whether his poetic style -- the massed word-clusters and sweeping rhythms -- found in California's massed cliffs and sweeping tides a congenial environment, or whether in fact the environment fashioned the style.
It's not a congenial lark this time but an outing with unexpected and serious consequences that give a different, meaning to the word "action" and contribute to making him a man.
