Mostly, he gave his guest a chance to show his softer side: in a dark suit and gray tie, Mr. Wright was courtly, genial, and something of an egghead, tossing out academic citations, literary references and words like "hermeneutics".
One can live out one's days quite satisfied to create something enjoyed by a genial cult.
After the musical adventures of the first half, however, Dvorak's genial quartet was something of a letdown.
In the pianist Enrico Pace Mr. Kavakos had another special something: a partner whose quietly genial presence and sparkling touch served to balance Mr. Kavakos's resolute focus.
All trusted him completely, regarding this genial gnome as something of a financial genius.In this section Will these modest proposals provoke mayhem down on the farm?
Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw labelled the new film "something terrifically exciting and spectacular, genial and rousing, with all the cheerful spirit of Saturday morning pictures" in his review.
While the genial Hugh does something in the City, the more waspish Sylvie, his wife, produces children and casts a sardonic eye over the family, but particularly over Hugh's sister, Isobel, or Izzie, who is the most erratic of the family, and blessed with a wild talent for self-invention.
He has successfully concluded his outrageously steroidal inflation of Tolkien's Hobbit into a triple-decker Middle Earth saga equivalent to the Rings trilogy, and made it something terrifically exciting and spectacular, genial and rousing, with all the cheerful spirit of Saturday morning pictures.
Even though it is sometimes dull and generally thin, there is something winning about the movie's genial lack of ambition.
It says something, too, about Mr. Stewart himself, a genial veteran who sees no reason that an aging rock star has to be a crank.
Mr. Marks's genial every-guy exterior hides something far more sinister.
