Sentence examples for exactly congenial from inspiring English sources

In fairness to Penn, this particular genre — Q. & A. with a lion, conducted inside the lion's den — is not exactly congenial to hardball questions.

We set a low hurdle, it is said, which many sceptics clear with ease, and once over they seem to find the tentativeness of our enthusiasms, the Gwen John palette of our prayer, if not exactly congenial, then not unpleasant.

As an artist, Truman Capote treated truth as a metaphor he could hide behind, the better to expose himself in a world not exactly congenial to a Southern-born queen with a high voice who once said to a disapproving truck driver: "What are you looking at?

"Unfortunately, lawyers throughout the country are not exactly revered for their congenial nature or their civility toward each other.

With his asymmetrical gelled hair, Gary is Anglomania gone wild; he's congenial and gets exactly what I want.

How, exactly, do we sniff out these biologically congenial people and make friends of them?

We just thought of ourselves as congenial business colleagues.

"Whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing," said Mr. Hickman, a tall, congenial man who seems to have grown weary with suspicion.

Talbott regards Steele as a "smart, careful, professional, and congenial" colleague who "knows the post-Soviet space, and is exactly what he says he is".

But there are also many imaginable movies that would seek greater complexity and find only chaos and overcomplication — or, alternatively, that would offer a message more congenial to Spielberg and Kushner's more radical critics, but only through exactly the same sort of selective editing of which the makers of "Lincoln" stand accused.

Congenial souls wanted.