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.
The opposition groups, for their part, call it a coup by "popular demand" and so far seem congenial to the army.
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.
Over at the New York Times, Lucas Akroyd previewed the matchup, and everyone seems very congenial and blasé about the whole situation, interesting though they recognize it to be.
It seems a congenial thing--so graspable, and not cumbersome, like the much larger LP, which has to be eased out of its envelope and then precariously wedged between palms.
That's why the word "diva" seamlessly applies to the unreasonable Maloney, but also to former X Factor contestant Leanne Robinson, who seems pretty congenial but who is also a black woman.
For the time being she intends to keep a toehold in screenwriting, she added — she is working with Taylor Branch on a three-part mini-series based on his biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — but novel writing seems more congenial.
Today, where the drive begins, Mount Misery seems a congenial place, with a white mailbox with newspaper delivery sleeves attached, a big American flag fluttering from a post by a split-rail fence and a tall, one-hole birdhouse of the sort made for bluebirds — although the lens in the hole suggests another function.
He recalled her lectures at the Poetry Project, in which she would combine Dadaism and Curious George and issue her famous writing prompts to students: "Attempt writing in a state of mind that seems least congenial," or, "Write a work gazing into a mirror without using the pronoun 'I.' " Over a meal of trout and rice, which Good had prepared, Mayer gamely reeled off the events of her stroke.
Neither of these explanations of the KE's seems especially congenial to the linguistic nativist.
