Sentence examples for genial air from inspiring English sources

For the first time, the quietish, genial air starts to slip.

His genial air was so convincing that his colleagues were stunned.

With its hard-to-find doorway and genial air of artistic anarchy, it harks back to the early days of TriBeCa.

With a genial air of command, he ordered eggs Benedict for the table, declined my request to turn on a tape recorder, ("Just keep my name out of it," he instructed later) and settled into an hour of polished spin.

Freddie Flintoff - even the name has a genial air to it and the man gives the impression of someone at ease with himself, with life and with his game.

And there is, it must be said, something chelonian about him: a retiring, preoccupied, self-effacing air, genial but carapaced and solitary.

At eighty-seven, the producer has a genial, emeritus-professor air that surprises those who know him only from "Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader".

On the air, a genial and clean-cut Clark would introduce the hits and mingle with mega-stars and teens alike.

Blaser, wearing a crisp blue sports coat, and with well-tended gray hair, projects an air of genial confidence; he seems more like the chief executive of a conglomerate than like the bench scientist he has been for decades.

I was sitting mournfully by the back-yard pool, without the prospect of a playmate, when my grandmother came down the flagstone path, a box in her hands, and announced, with an air of genial relief, "I've found your mother's old Nancy Drews".

Gustave affects an air of genial worldliness and deferential intimacy with the hotel's grander clientele, and despite the quasi-military correctness of his bearing in dealing with his subordinates, Gustave can also lapse into high-camp familiarity with the guests.