Sentence examples for seem congenial from inspiring English sources

The opposition groups, for their part, call it a coup by "popular demand" and so far seem congenial to the army.

It was a fountain of metaphor". Given his own estimable talent for description, and his disciplined reluctance to stretch beyond it, the match of writer to subject might seem congenial.

Both have appeared on television, permitting viewers to find whatever seems congenial.

The mood in the room seemed congenial, not tense, but she couldn't be sure.

Kevin Pietersen came out to have a chat, and it all seemed congenial enough.

All of this seemed congenial to Levien's skills and temperament, although from time to time she chaffed under the studio system in which screenwriters were mere cogs in the wheel, subservient to the directors and producers.

In another, a dolorous-looking bearded immigrant said that since Sinclair's system "vorked vell in Russia, vy can't it vork here?" The most serious blow came from Franklin Roosevelt, who, though he had seemed congenial at first, wanted to protect New Deal legislation from association with radicals, and pulled away from an endorsement.

It didn't always seem as congenial to early choral music.

Initially, she used Bible excerpts, but "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" came to seem more congenial.

The harsh weather and ferocious insects of Siberia may seem quite congenial when compared with Moscow's corporate jungle.

That's something of a surprise: no setting would seem less congenial to the strict angles of Martin's paintings than the curves of Frank Lloyd Wright's creamy seashell.