Genial in a sentence

At the completion of the days play everyone enjoyed a meal and genial conversation and some rehydration.

Pen Argyl, in other words, knows how to throw a parade, and DeLong — sweet, genial Gerry, an honorary Lookout volunteer — was just the man to lead it, dispensing good cheer along the way.

The adult table has empty chairs, one once belonging to the genial head of the family.

The creaking door is opened by a genial, smiling Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant, turning on his customary charm), who invites them in and offers them a slice of blueberry pie freshly baked by his wife, who never appears.

The mood is genial but subdued – tables and windows don’t make contact.

He also chose her to help inject excitement into his campaign, which is leading in the polls but mostly because he’s the genial alternative to the most divisive president in modern history who is presiding over a pandemic and economic collapse.

Henderson, the second-largest city in Nevada with 316,000 residents, cultivates an image as Las Vegas’s genial kid sibling, a spread of subdivisions, golf courses and master-planned communities.

Another source of distress was their heir, Bertie, a genial though markedly non-academic boy who appeared to charm most people except his parents.

Cameron has always a masterful line in wry faux self-deprecation, and his final prime minister’s questions was the usual genial cockabout.

Nicola Shindler’s U.K. shingle Red Production Company is producing in association with Goldby’s Bright Pictures TV, Nye’s ITV-backed Genial Productions, and Hawes’ recently minted Buddy Club Productions.

One SNP MP, part of the 56 who took all but three of Scotland’s seats in 2015, told me of how genial he had always found the Tories to be.

Beforehand he was in a genial mood facing a media scrum of three dozen.

But Chris finds something sinister beneath their genial liberal surface.

He also maintained a genial demeanor throughout the week.

His performance in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle may have been the first time an Indian American played not a cab driver, terrorist, or convenience store clerk, but a genial young pothead.

In the (dis)order they appear, all back-packed -up and togged out in yellow, redolent of manky Ghostbusters, first there’s Noah Lukehurst’s Geoff, our genial, accommodating narrator and friendly host for the journey.

I watched in alarm as W., who had promised a “humble” foreign policy with no nation-building and who had been a bipartisan, genial Texas governor, shape-shifted into a hyperaggressive and belligerently unilateral president.

Izard’s sophomore effort combines her genial nature with a newfound sense of self, and is not dissimilar to the work of the charming Ms. Rachael Ray.

More than apparent to any theatergoer was the genial spark of camaraderie onstage as Crenshaw, Rodriguez-Schmidt, Alberto, and Waddell talked and blocked, joked and poked fun at other characters in heartwarming unison.

Stars loved him for his endowments, both physical and intangible, from his genial personality to his absolute discretion.