Sentence examples for not congenial from inspiring English sources

Everyone's not congenial!

The first round of negotiations was not congenial.

Arrestingly she starts her chapter on "Bugaku" (1963) by arguing that violence as a subject was not congenial to Balanchine.

Its decisions do not always lead to dancing in the streets but they are invariably followed even when not congenial to those in authority.

All three prefer Stein's "real" writing to the "audience" writing, and when I confessed — as I am often obliged to — that the "real" writing is not congenial to me, they looked at me pityingly.

While some may say that, given Fay v. Noia, what the Court is attempting to do is justifiable as a means of promoting 'efficiency' in the administration of criminal justice, it is the sort of efficiency which, though perhaps appropriate in some watered-down form of federalism, is not congenial to the kind of federalism I had supposed was ours.

The neighbors weren't congenial, her husband was away a lot and the kids kept getting sick.

She might have mentioned Billy Elliot too, though presumably its fierce anti-Thatcherism isn't congenial to her, no matter what it's done for the balance of trade.

Some of its interiors, especially the main atrium, have original, mid-century-modern cool austerity, but other spaces are dispiriting, and the layout isn't congenial to the evolving social and technological uses of library space.

Judge Mukasey should submit an updated answer confirming his intention to abide by the laws of this land rather than worrying about what is and isn't congenial.

It's not a congenial place, this Cuskland, with its low mephitic cloud of complex melancholia.