Congenial

Pointing out that a claim I find congenial is bullshit is a symptom of class and gender privilege. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"We will review our stated position only if we are satisfied that the viability of the project is not being impinged, the integral nature of the mother plant and our ancillary units are being maintained and all stakeholders are committed to develop a long-term congenial environment for smooth operations of the plant," a Tata spokesman said in a statement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The woman who earns a competence in congenial work insists on economic standards which are often beyond the capacity of the men whom she knows and might possibly marry. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Suffering and death and all ugliness were forgotten in congenial and healthful companionship. ❋ Unknown (1901)

From the mangrove swamps at the mouths of turbid, sluggish rivers, where numberless alligators dwell in congenial slime, the State gradually rises inland, passing through all the imaginable wealth of tropical vegetation and produce till it becomes hilly, if not mountainous. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

A Tata Motors spokesperson told ET: “We will review our stated position only if we are satisfied that the viability of the project is not being impinged, the integral nature of the mother plant and our ancillary units are being maintained and all stakeholders are committed to develop a long-term congenial environment. †❋ Unknown (2008)

Japan promptly set about engaging the modern world on terms congenial to its own political priorities--not those of outsiders. ❋ Ian Fletcher (2011)

But again, if we say that the congenial is the same as the good, in that case the good and he only will be the friend of the good. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As the man on the suit-case gazed about him at the general air of dilapidation and neglect characteristic of a country town on the down grade, and recalled the congenial life of the city which he had left, with all its busy competition, with all its absorbing activities, the companionship of the men he loved, and the restful, inspiring intimacy with a certain young woman, he felt, for the moment, a pang of homesickness. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The party at Broadstone was not in what might be called a congenial condition. ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)

I am somewhat uncomfortable with Dewey's use of terms like "congenial" and "enjoyed experience." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He seems a bit of a lightweight, to me — he’s mainly known as a congenial talking head on television news. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps worst of all in this connection is his nonargument against what he calls the "congenial" view that we are all — German and non-German alike — in the grip of what he has someone else call "cosmic forces" but which in reality are the determinant influences of supranational and interreacting social systems. ❋ Katz, Robert (1971)

After the dinner he shook hands with people, delivered himself of a number of snappy brusqueries, laughed a good bit and, almost the last to leave the charmed precinct where he had unbosomed himself among "congenial" souls, he wandered out. ❋ Domino (N/A)

The authors describe these environments as "congenial" to the development of homosexuality. ❋ Unknown (2009)