Sentence examples for which was congenial from inspiring English sources

Wit was opposed to true "humor," which was congenial and full of "fellow feeling".

Sidgwick identified himself with the Rationalist camp, which was congenial to developing a thin Theistic account of religion emphasizing the moral government of the universe, personal survival of physical death, and the existence of a benevolent God.

Such a syllabus, in its Aristotelian aspect, indicated the unity of all departments of literature or learning as we now call it — which was congenial to one with Burke's passion for knowledge — he wrote of his furor mathematicus, furor logicus, furor historicus, and furor poeticus.[3] It also indicated the range of achievements, and the range of needs, that people had generated.

To the country which copiously funds the spread of hardline Wahhabism around the world, a version of Islam which is congenial to fundamentalism and extremism.

Its bumper sticker read "We Are One Family," the town motto — the reference was to the imagined relationship between Hampton's inhabitants and those of the great globe itself, which was displayed in congenial artsy abstract, a smiley-face Planet Earth, complete with latitudes and longitudes.

King, however, offered another view of love, which was far more congenial to the counterculture.

There are all kinds of situations that wouldn't conform to the kind of attitude that you have in this day and age, which is more congenial and more cooperative".

Perhaps in an effort to poach some Fox News viewers, CNN had teamed up with the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, two think tanks that offer various services for the conservative movement, one of which is providing congenial retirement homes for its warriors.

Which ones are congenial for a particular couple are determined by the days the bride and the groom were born, and the hours of their births.

Mr. Goodwin, a congenial West Virginian, quickly turned his attention to buying US Airways, which was being run by Mr. Wolf.

Ansari found a congenial crowd at the UCB Theatre, on West Twenty-sixth Street, below a Gristedes supermarket, which was founded by the Upright Citizens Brigade, a sketch-comedy troupe.