Sentence examples for largely congenial from inspiring English sources
The popular uprisings that have swept the region since Mr. Obama's speech in Cairo have upended an authoritarian order that was largely congenial to the United States.
After all, she has had no evil stepmother or wicked witch to battle, having had a largely congenial rapport with her famous parents, the artists Brice and Helen Marden.
The other work I have taken on - university teaching, reviewing, translation, essays, plays and short stories, editing and broadcasting - has been largely congenial, as well as continuous with my central preoccupation with writing poems.
Thus Mencius acknowledges that there are natural parts of the self that must be disciplined and held in check while Xunzi acknowledges that there are natural parts that are largely congenial to morality in the sense that they are the natural basis for taking great satisfaction and contentment in virtue once one has gotten the self-aggrandizing desires and emotions under control.
But the cloud of admiring discussion is largely tangential to the congenial, rather ordinary structure on the Met's roof, which is there to be considered as a work of environmental sculpture, not a hypothesis about the future or the nature of the universe.
Though reluctant to admit this fact, I was lost in awe, but couldn't help noticing that the largely male press found it less congenial to admire the dedication of the women.
Unfortunately, the radical Jesus, the political dissident who took aim at injustice and oppression, has been largely forgotten today, replaced by a congenial, smiling Jesus trotted out for religious holidays but otherwise rendered mute when it comes to matters of war, power and politics.
It is unfortunate that the radical Jesus, the political dissident who took aim at injustice and oppression, has been largely forgotten today, replaced by a congenial, smiling Jesus trotted out for religious holidays but otherwise rendered mute when it comes to matters of war, power and politics.
Keay's main theme, that the modern Middle East has been manipulated and shaped largely by outsiders, is an approach that is congenial in that part of the world, where, as the saying used to have it, "if two fish fight, the British are behind it".
This is the latest drama in a decadelong saga that, largely through money-fuelled and often nasty judicial elections, has intensified the turn of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from a congenial, moderately liberal institution into a severely divided conservative stronghold.
