(n.) The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
(2) Statues portray him riding a horse in triumph or genially waving to the tour groups waiting to see his museum.
(3) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)
(4) He has generally been appreciated by journalists for his accessibility and geniality – and, as Guardian readers and Thought for the Day listeners to Radio 4's Today programme know, his ability to present a coherent and challenging message cogently and to deadlines.
(5) Sentencing him at Preston crown court, Anthony Russell QC said Hall was known to the public for his genial personality but had a darker side.
(6) Review of all available information indicates that conservative management is the treatment of choice for fractures of genial tubercles.
(7) It’s called the Green party, so let’s not sink together, let’s sail together!” Johnson, the genial former Republican governor of a Democratic state, New Mexico, was popular in office, lowering state taxes, expanding jobs and attracting more businesses.
(8) Thomson swiftly raised the stakes with more investment and commercial drive; but David welcomed the arrival of this genial newcomer with pebble glasses who was prepared to give his editors independence: and he was furious when the paper published a critical profile of Thomson while he was on holiday.
(9) The nearest he had got to show business was appearing, with the encouragement of his genial Uncle Lew, at the Rex Cinema, Haslemere , Surrey, for a Sunday afternoon talent concert.
(10) Wasn’t it unbecoming of the man dubbed the new Terrence Malick to direct scenes with genial tokers discussing pioneering methods of joint construction , or hookah-puffing sex-pest wizards ?
(11) Herpes simplex virus was isolated from 30 of 57 patients clinically diagnosed as suffering from a herpetic or herpetic-like genial infection for a virological incidence rate of 0.31%.
(12) "This game is being played like a school ground game of First-to-Ten-Goals-Wins, and Big Phil is looking on like the genial master thinking 'boys will be boys'," writes Justin Kavanagh.
(13) But despite sharp intelligence, willingness to put in 18-hour work days, and a genial, low-key manner, Wolfowitz has never before held a leadership position.
(14) With a huge open fireplace in the middle of the dining room, this is a where to come for "carne alla griglia" – huge T-Bone steaks, veal and lamb chops, spit-roasted rabbit, chicken and pork – expertly prepared by the genial owner, Derio Vezzier.
(15) A case of spontaneous fracture of hypertrophied genial tubercles is reported.
(16) Standing next to a freshly planted bed of onions, potatoes, garlic and collard greens, Covington is a genial soul with gentleness built into a giant physical frame that could play American football.
(17) During one of the shorthand breaks, I’m tapping out an email on my phone when I hear a voice say: “Where are you from?” He’s polite, genial, complimentary about the Guardian’s coverage, charming in a brittle sort of way, and it’s probably unfair that I feel a bit as if he’s asked which school I went to.
(18) Over lunch at Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel, Mac played the genial host with a dash of the elder statesman.
(19) A film and pop music buff, D'Ancona is witty, genial and fogeyish.
(20) For Donald Trump it will be a weekend of relaxation in familiar surroundings, a round of golf with the Japanese prime minister on his beloved south Florida course and an opportunity to play the genial host at the exclusive members-only Palm Beach club that Trump has dubbed the “winter White House”.
Sunshine
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
(n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.
(a.) Sunshiny; bright.
Example Sentences:
(1) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(4) Sunday sunshine saw dips for films right across the market, including for Oblivion, but the headline number remains robust.
(5) Terrorists will leave the country and go to Holland or somewhere, and there will be more days of sunshine and England will win a football match.
(6) The hypothesis that breastfed infants in Beijing, China, have low vitamin D status and that sunshine exposure increases serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) concentrations was tested in a randomized prospective study involving 42 healthy infants 1-8 months of age.
(7) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
(8) In England and Wales the county boroughs with notably high rates during 1958-67 were mostly textile towns with cotton and wool mills, situated in the area recording the lowest average levels of sunshine.
(9) The grey economic clouds are occasionally pierced by a ray of sunshine.
(10) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
(11) A sunshine exposure score, previously verified, was used to document time and body surface exposed to the sun.
(12) It’s Dougie Donnelly’s introduction (after 1.05) which makes it: ‘Let’s just enjoy it for a moment or two – Sunshine on Leith’.
(13) Roy Elis, Sunshine Hillygus,and Norman Nie calculated that Palin cost McCain four percentage points.
(14) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(15) The patient had always avoided sunshine because it made her feel uncomfortable.
(16) As wind and sunshine are highly variable, electricity will increasingly flow intermittently.
(17) There were fans too, around 2,000 of them waiting in the sunshine, where a platform had been built on the pitch adorned with the trophies Casillas won during a 17-year career here.
(18) Besides possible ethnic factors, the relative rarity of interictal EEG abnormalities in Africans with grand mal epilepsy may be related to the larger amount of sunshine in the tropics.
(19) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
(20) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.