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I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
'Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's things like this that give podcasts their charm.
Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
