Sentences with phrase «of genial»

Rather, the broad array of drawings and pastels reaffirm that Gonzalez is most easily viewed as a craftsman of genial inspiration rather than a sculptor of genius.

His Portrait of Master Bill, in which the young painter sits back in «the creation chamber», as he called it, with an air of genial but byzantine detachment, sealed the association.

That now extends to federal education policy, once a sleepy backwater of genial bipartisanship.

Only instead of portraying his plight as fate's dark joke, which would probably be a natural fit for a film that begins with the man's attempted suicide in the waters of the Seine (weighted down, no doubt, by his extremely heavy Priapic genitals), Renoir juxtaposes Boudu's infinite zest against the studied mannerisms of the genial bookseller who rescues him from the waters, Edouard Lestingois.

However, it's this type of genial, odd humor the film needs more of.

Separately, just about every aspect of The Paperboy screams «instant camp classic,» from the surreal miscasting of genial Midwesterner John Cusack as a feral, sex - crazed prisoner with a shaky Southern accent to Nicole Kidman's bizarrely stylized portrayal of a prisoner groupie who talks, behaves, and saunters about like a giggling, cooing, malfunctioning Marilyn Monroe sex robot to the fucking pirate eyepatch Matthew McConaughey wears for much of the third act for reasons far too sleazy and dumb to address.

The acclaimed director reunites with Matthew McConaughey and Ethan Hawke in this charming caper flick about a band of genial brothers who, despite their aversion to violence, went on to become the most successful bank robbers in history.

For fans of the genial, garrulous Gold, of Los Angeles culture or of films about food, City of Gold will easily merit four stars and its 90 - minute length.

It is a measure of the shortcomings of this genial, well - meaning but ultimately unenchanting film that scene after scene is stolen by the second bananas.

The presence of a genial culture around the sport is no coincidence, given the level of discipline and camaraderie demonstrated by players.

It's a genial, natural religiosity of some genial, natural religiosity of some sort — communal felling.»

Southern Baptist hymnal editor William Reynolds, a southerner of genial warmth, was introduced as president - elect.

We've domesticated God down to the point of genial predictability, a power that wouldn't do anything a nice person like me wouldn't do.

This is your chance to hear from and talk with them in both a structured atmosphere of frank discussion and high - octane idea exchange and network in a more relaxed social setting of genial conversation.

Not exact matches

In a long - running series of TV commercials for Apple's popular iPhone, a genial voice proclaims, «There's an app for just about anything.»

As genial as he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealot.

After a year, however, she discovered that the mechanized browsing system was undercutting one of her company's greatest potential assets: the image of SkiMall as the skier's genial friend and tour guide.

Just when it looked like Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as CEO of Uber was coming into focus, the genial executive has muddied the water by buying, of all things, a bike - sharing startup called Jump.

This coalition of sometimes strange bedfellows helped elect Eisenhower (and later Richard Nixon and Reagan), but the genial man from the Abilene clapboard house ultimately had no interest in dismantling the New Deal.

Nonetheless, the Berns thesis does throw some doubt upon the generous and affectionate thesis about the American founding propounded by the genial Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

The poem pictures a stream Unnaturally suspended above the banks / Of ancient plunging woodlands, a stream that now waters genial upland pastures.

It is not by Birth it is by Faith; ---- «The blind and the seeing are not alike; (19) Nor are the depths of Darkness and the Light; (20) Nor are the (chilly) shade and the (genial) heat of the sun: (21) Nor are alike those that are living and those that are dead.

In terms of style, not only had the tent and stadium disappeared from the 700 Club, but the program «s elements were almost indistinguishable from those of the «Tonight Show,» with a genial host (Robertson), a foil with whom the host can banter (Ben Kinchlow, who now has become a «co-host»), guests lounging around a coffee table, musical breaks with cut - aways to commercials (for mission projects and CBN membership) and a «studio audience» to applaud and laugh.

Martin intimates that it was Graham, above all, who midwifed evangelicalism into existence in the 1950s, giving it a genial identity separate from the sulfuric fulminations of the fundamentalists.

In his 1940 essay «The Vienna of Yesterday,» Vienna is the true European imperial city, because it combines under a genial and benign tolerance many different peoples and creeds.

When part of the things one hopes for are resources for vigilant and acute identification and critique of ideological captivity both in church actions and in theological schooling, this sounds more like an invitation to genial optimism than like a grounded hope.

«How did the main effects of poetry,» he asks, «ever boil down to these: the genial revelation, the sweetly poignant middle - aged lament, the winsome ode to the suburban soul?»

Intelligent, deeply concerned for his famous Florentine family, both suave and genial, Pope Leo was destined for high office from the moment of his birth.

Luther was at his best, an innate dramatic sense enabling him to appear cool, almost casual; brilliant and genial; sharp yet apparently relaxed; carrying a bunch of pinks — people used flowers as deodorants, but it was unusual to carry them to the podium in a debate.

It was an appropriate conclusion to a genial evening in which the Catholic side, while largely failing to engage directly with opposing arguments, presented its vision much more coherently than in the Intelligence Squared debate of last November.

This genial way of operating does not seem to have hampered Valley Meat's business.

Now and then in QSR, there's a brand that understands that they need to stray from The Genial Center of Pleasantly Average Generic Positivity.

There we were met by Marie and Gerry Sharp, a genial couple who gave us a guided tour of their plantation and their Melinda's hot sauce bottling operation.

At the opening ceremony, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee president Peter V. Ueberroth hailed the Olympic athletes, a genial collection of javelin chuckers and pugilists, as «the best hope for the future of mankind.»

During my years covering the Patriots, I never quite knew what to make of the sometimes genial, sometimes volatile young star.

So Arsene could abandon winning a for a more genial 4th place focus allowing him to experiment with all manner of strange signings, keeping injured players and keeping and playing favourites long after their used by date.

Theis says Jordan has always «been genial, and friendly with the media, but we always found it strange how he would ask for eight spending provisions in a budget bill, get five of them, and then vote against it.»

«Oh, I'm glad that season was a part of my career,» says the genial Anderson, now an associate athletic director and assistant baseball coach at Lehigh University.

Occasional outbursts at innocent Sky Sports microphone monkeys aside, Harry Redknapp is a genial man, generous with his time and well - versed in that kind of banterous joshery that makes press conferences pass by.

Gault, a fervent, genial man of 46, is the first Negro head coach of the U.S. Olympic boxing team.

Genial coach John Gagliardi's toughest job at St. John's of Minnesota is keeping the faculty happy

The genial Italian was fired mere months after delivering an expected domestic title and going out in the quarterfinals of the Champions League in an unfortunate and controversial defeat to Real Madrid.

Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New Hampshire high school that's a progressive Eden of alternative educational grooviness.

Denis, who'd always been so genial to me, became a rampaging bull, storming out of the studio and dragging the sofa with him because his tie mic was still plumbed in.

A genial politician who rose through the ranks of the Senate Democrats before Eliot Spitzer tapped him as a running mate, Paterson was struggling to keep order at the Capitol amid a fiscal crisis and the unsettled Senate, where Smith never seemed to be able to deliver the votes to back up the deals he made.

As mentioned before, Mr. Bharara's ability to secure indictments of Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos upended the Albany order, and Mr. Flanagan, a genial Long Islander, was one beneficiary.

The chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party is a genial attorney by trade who, as recently as three days ago, was everyone's long - shot to help broker a deal to potentially elect Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito speaker of the City Council.

«It is up to us now, in the traditional non-threatening and genial self - deprecating way of the British, to let that lion roar» @BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/WxjaZkvJ 0u

After a combative round of telephone diplomacy with even the staunchest US allies, Trump is planning a more genial approach this week when he decamps with Japan's Prime Minister to his winter getaway in Florida, Mar - a-Lago, for a round of golf.