(a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
Example Sentences:
(1) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(2) There’s a friendly and convivial atmosphere in the beautiful base town of Waterton on the shore of the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
(3) The emphasis is always on conviviality and enjoyment; on learning skills that have been lost over the last few decades – how to cook, grow food, repair and make things.
(4) Further east, in the Arade river nature reserve, is rural turismo Tapada do Gramacho (doubles from €75, tapadadogramacho.com ) with its convivial communal kitchen.
(5) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(6) Desire to drink was greater in both Stressful and Convivial situations for those who scored higher on Neuroticism, Convivial Situations for those higher on Depression (Beck), and Boring situations for those higher on Sensation Seeking.
(7) It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
(8) "It covers the cost of my travel and allows me to meet lots of interesting people – it's a convivial way to travel."
(9) Paris and Brussels are two very similar cities, very dynamic, convivial and warm,” said Hidalgo.
(10) When he ordered the bottle I had hoped sharing a drink might stoke conviviality but as the interview wears on it is clear the booze is to sustain him through the ordeal.
(11) He then became much more convivial, chatting about Washington Heights, where he was from, saying that he’d much rather be at home eating dinner with his family.
(12) It makes for more convivial towns and cities, can produce a more resilient food economy and acts as an important buffer against the extremes of a warming climate.
(13) Two and a half years ago, Women for Independence began as an inspired idea, given life over a convivial meal among like-minded women.
(14) At an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Saturday, the usual diplomatic conviviality unravelled as they failed to agree any practical steps out of the crisis.
(15) Once again, most of us will feel like spectators to the biggest debate about life on earth: whether or not to maintain convivial environmental conditions for human civilisation.
(16) But among the convivial crowds also stood a white man wearing a baseball cap and shirt that read “Hillary for Prison”.
(17) One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities.
(18) Still, the relative conviviality concealed major divisions between the security agencies and their congressional overseers.
(19) When Labour’s business team are out with the great and the good from Britain’s boardrooms over a City dinner, there has of late been a moment when the convivial hum of chatter subsides – and someone mentions the mansion tax.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
Inquisitive
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.
(a.) Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious.
(n.) A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifa 15 is on the way; Dragon Age Inquisition and Hardline too.
(2) At the same time, it is important for our enjoyment of Bake Off that the insouciance does not go all the way (the inquisitive camera, for example, captures Ian’s set jaw, betraying his iron will).
(3) There’s also Birdsong, an e-commerce platform selling high-quality products made by women’s charities – and Curiosity Club, an education venture which wants to cultivate an inquisitive nature and passion for learning in children from less privileged socioeconomic backgrounds.
(4) • Gather inquisitive and reflective people around you.
(5) But in the media storm that followed it was not the inflammatory preachers but the programme-makers who found themselves subject to an inquisition.
(6) It puts you into an inquisitive, exploratory frame of mind.
(7) James Murdoch and the Guardian article in 2009 Ofcom again raps Murdoch for not being more inquisitive, as it believes a responsible chief executive faced with serious allegations should have done.
(8) He remains available for the occasional newspaper interview with a friendly proprietor and, at conference time, finds time for a 20-minute breakfast inquisition.
(9) A lot of students thought of this as a new inquisition, a witch hunt,” Deleon recalls.
(10) Clinical pathology officially began when inquisitive physicians in the nineteenth century sought explanations for the diseases they observed in their patients.
(11) The prosecution played the inquisition; the judge played its enthusiastic helper; the defence attorneys played the fool; and only the defendants themselves played it straight, giving pointed political speeches at the end of their ridiculous ordeal.
(12) Then maybe you might even avoid being called by the Inquisition for an 'assessment' of whether you have the Devil's mark or a third nipple or any other sign that you are a heretical 'scrounger'.
(13) "Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition" says Palin, ever the showman.
(14) He went to Spain, where he served as personal physician to Emperor Charles V. After almost 20 years in Spain, he became involved in an unfortunate incident that incurred the condemnation of the Inquisition.
(15) But once the barriers come down, they can be warm, helpful and, eventually, very inquisitive.
(16) He is the American cardinal who marched in San Francisco protesting against gay marriage and was accused of turning a blind eye to paedophile priests before he took over the Vatican's doctrinal office, the modern version of the Inquisition.
(17) Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest courtesy of the Vatican's inquisition for his heresy in insisting the Earth revolved around the sun.
(18) So perhaps it's less about being a woman and more about being (I hope) an inquisitive journalist, who funnily enough likes talking to people, asking questions and listening to the answers.
(19) Monitoring how these are promoted in individual schools must be done with common sense and sensitivity.” Examining the DfE’s response to the affair, the report said there was a proven “ lack of inquisitiveness ” within the department prior to the Trojan horse letter, which could be partially explained by the general level of awareness of such issues at that time.
(20) It's a civilising voice and it makes us inquisitive.