Sentence examples for some congenial from inspiring English sources

He has elicited some congenial performances, however, that might have worked in a chamber concert production.

According to Plutarch, the Queen, her lover, and some congenial courtiers formed a secret society — the Inimitable Livers — dedicated to hedonism, if not debauchery.

Of his writing for the Evening Press, he wrote: "Usually I worked the column out in my head during the night – occasionally in some congenial pub – and got up about four in the morning and wrote it".

Living in a series of foster homes, some congenial, others thug-infested, Eire makes attempts at acclimation that amount to reinvention: in Miami, he strives to "kill" "Carlos" (hence the title) and redefine himself as an American named "Charles"; in Bloomington, Illinois, he has "Chuck" written on his high-tops.

Instead, they should be concentrating on the upside - showing a Scrabble board by a roaring fire, with some congenial company, much wine, hail thumping on the windows thus rendering any pursuit of exciting outdoor pursuits completely impossible, and at least two people in the corner having a heated argument about 'zen', in order to remind people of the true joys of the world's best game.

It's a wonderful detection method and an even cannier literary strategy, allowing Walker to pursue the plot of his mystery while beguiling the reader with extended scenes of village market days, old-fashioned wine harvests and some exceptionally congenial dinner parties.

As critic Floyd Stovall wrote, the theme of the poem is "one of disillusionment with the world and escape into some more congenial realm of dream or of the imagination".

Abroad you stayed in hotels, ate in restaurants and did some sightseeing in congenial company.

No doubt this pedantic Platonic notion is more congenial to some listeners than to others, but it would be hard to deny that "reference performances," like reference books, have their uses.

Ball, also the author of two previous novels, "The Way Through Doors" and "Samedi the Deafness," is sure of hand, unafraid of night and, as with Orwell in "1984," not satisfied with the quasi-­redemptive climaxes congenial to some dystopian fiction.

"Is it that those procedures are known to be more congenial than some which appertain in other countries?" But Peter Marsden, a specialist on Afghanistan at the British Refugee Council, said in an interview that such talk -- both from the government and the opposition -- was decidedly unhelpful, particularly because the motives of the hijackers and passengers were still unclear.