131 examples of geniality in sentences

"And what might you be doing around these parts?" asked the big man, veiling his contempt under a mild geniality.

It is an inhabitant of all the temperate countries of Europe, but, on account of the geniality of the climate, it abounds most in the Ukraine.

He combined as no other man has ever combined its practical energy, its patient and enduring force, its profound sense of duty, the reserve and self-control that steady in it a wide outlook and a restless daring, its temperance and fairness, its frank geniality, its sensitiveness to action, its poetic tenderness, its deep and passionate religion.

His rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature, gave color and charm to his life.

The new joy in his heart warmed his pulses, lightened his tongue, unlocked a new geniality.

He was neither handsome, nor elegant, nor aristocratic, but he had personal geniality, wit, brilliancy in conversation, irreproachable morals, and was prominent in the debating society,a school where young men learn the art of public speaking, like Gladstone at Oxford.

She used to be quite extraordinarily adroit in the directing of servants, though her manner to them never approached geniality.

disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent &c (turn of mind) 820; penchant &c (desire) 865; aptitude &c 698. docility, docibleness^; persuasibleness^, persuasibility^; pliability &c (softness) 324. geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness &c (desire) 865. asset &c 488; compliance &c 762; pleasure &c (will) 600; gratuitous service.

He longed to be free of all roofs and feel the geniality of the hearth-fire of the planetary system penetrating through his coat, his skin, his flesh, into his very being.

Here, John Wingfield, Sr. had gained points through post-prandial geniality which he could never have won in the presence of the battery of push-buttons; here, his most successful conceptions had come to him; here, he had known the greatest moments of his life.

Her geniality cannot avoid an occasional burst of feeling, such as concludes her notice of the stories about the Magdalene and the other "beatified penitents.

Judith and Arnold had never been very malleable social material, and in their present formidable condition they were as little assistance in the manufacture of geniality as a couple of African lions.

" She high-handedly assumed that everything was settled as she wished it, and running towards the car, called with an easy geniality to the group of men, starting down the road on foot, "Here, wait a minute, folks, I'll take you back!"

" Page had regained his geniality.

These devils, I could see, all wanted to be friendly; but none of them possessed the open, frank geniality of our men.

exclaimed Mr. Chadwick, in the voice of bluff geniality which seemed to him appropriate.

The speaker was a man of fifty, stout and floridthe latter peculiarity especially marked in his nose; he looked like a substantial merchant, and spoke with rather pompous geniality.

He instructed the Arabian to fashion him a charm that would overspread his ugly face with comeliness, change his uncouthness into geniality.

Newly made acquainted with some of them, she won their love and esteem by her unaffected simplicity and the geniality of her sympathies; but, whilst she showed true conjugal solicitude in her plans for domestic comfort and social enjoyment, it was evidently her first desire to have her heart and her treasure in heaven.

Eric sneered at Owen as a fellow who did nothing but grind all day long, and had no geniality in him; while Owen pitied the love of popularity which so often led Eric into delinquencies, which he himself despised.

Unfortunately, Owen was now head of the school, and from his constitutional want of geniality, he was so little of a boy that he had no sympathy from the others, and little authority over them.

"It couldna hae got oot o' that by accident!" "Weel," interposed Cosh, with forced geniality, "it's no a thing tae argie-bargie aboot.

It was not until the time in which he wrote 'Don Juan' that he really lost this inward warmth and geniality, and a sudden shout of hilarious laughter announced to the world that Lord Byron had really become a pessimist.

The humour which steeps the stories of Falstaff and Uncle Toby is a cosmic and philosophic humour, a geniality which goes down to the depths.

He may have been a pantomime King, but he was a King, and with all his geniality he let nobody forget it.

131 examples of  geniality  in sentences