"The emphasis on glory, self-sacrifice, authoritarian models and internal enemies felt very congenial to the stronistas," says Mr Whigham, the historian.
Even when the Back Bay Grill is busy, which is always in the summer, Mr. Freund and his congenial staff make you feel relaxed and pampered.
I tend not to think that brevity is the soul of wit, and neither do the James brothers, so reading them in sequence makes me feel like a houseguest at a very congenial house.
Families living in Long Island City now laud the neighborhood's new waterfront parks, its relative affordability and a congenial sense of community that, they say, makes the area feel like a suburban extension of New York City.
"I never felt Park Slope was that congenial," Ms. Taggart said.
In spite of the pretense, the place is hard to hate; the atmosphere is more congenial and subdued than you might expect, and whatever lingering umbrage the insecure diner may feel can be quickly ameliorated by tequila; there are shelves upon shelves of it, some six dozen flavors in all.
While it is true that older travelers may feel a little out of place surrounded by backpackers who were born in the 90's, the atmosphere is generally congenial.
Another possibility, more congenial to conservatives, would be a coverage expansion that follows an explicitly free-market blueprint, but that's funded at a rate that makes Democrats feel comfortable.
Yet, unlike the more urbane and congenial Fielding, Richardson has a knack for psychological realism and an ability to craft characters whose clamorous inner lives continue, almost three centuries later, to feel real to us.
