Geniality

Consideration was in it, and understanding, and that kind of geniality that offers itself on a plain business footing, a commercial heartiness that has no nonsense about it. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

German village, with the small earnings and spendings, the narrow sphere of life and experience, and the great vintage of geniality which is laid up from youth to age, and handed down with the old wine from father to son. ❋ Various (N/A)

I am sure every one in this room has been studying your personality whilst you talked, but somehow you do manage to create and spread and make everyone feel that atmosphere of kindheartedness and geniality which is you. ❋ Unknown (1942)

Anyhow, the little hamlets of the warm grey stone have a geniality which is not achieved by all the artistic scarlet of the suburbs; as if it were better to warm one's hands at the ashes of Glastonbury than at the painted flames of Croydon. ❋ Unknown (1905)

He said it with a grim kind of geniality, at which I did not know whether to be encouraged or not: I did as he told me, and looked about me with as easy an air as I could muster. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

Mr. Anthony shook the proffered hand, and then shrank back, with the distrust of geniality which is one of the cruel hardships of wealth. ❋ Margaret Collier Graham (1880)

Not only do I hear his lectures with delight, but I am greatly taken with the geniality which is peculiar to the man. ❋ Alfred John Church (1870)

He wished to stand well with his neighbours, but lacked the geniality which is the very body, the outside expression of humanity. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

In certain companies you shall see a boisterous cordiality, which at bottom is as hollow as diplomacy; but there is a modest geniality which is to society what the bloom is to the plum. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

Sylvia took as little thought of him as he did of her, to all appearance, Philip could even have given him praise for manly good looks, and a certain kind of geniality of disposition which made him ready to smile pleasantly at all strangers, from babies upwards. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

He was a sandy-complexioned man in whose face geniality and humor seemed the salient characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morning after morning, and evening after evening when he came home from work, he would enter the room where she lay and fight a royal battle to hide his feelings and make a show of cheerfulness and geniality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shorty cursed the universe with less geniality than usual, and looked at Kit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of -- oh -- such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It warmed the cockles of my geniality and put a fairer face on the truly fair face of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He still had recrudescence of geniality, but they were largely periodical and forced, and they were usually due to the cocktails he took prior to meal-time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the fierce, savage game he now played, his habitual geniality imperceptibly slipped away from him, as did his lazy Western drawl. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He felt like a prince returned from excile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The geniality in his lazy Western drawl reassured them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

he was [endowed] with geniality and [good] [humour] ❋ StopRAVEN (2014)

He had a genial [attitude] ❋ Kmetzman (2006)

‘[Benji] is in ([genial]) ‘ - he is [in denial] of his hair colour ❋ The Real Meiwz (2018)