They had at any rate the consolations of genial companionship and of familiar surroundings.
The fact that it was both assured and genial bodes well for the future.
In a genial endeavour to make a few suggestions, various newspapers have been making a cut at everything from level crossings to porters.
The next day it is sunny, genial and warm.
He is a kindly, genial, good-tempered, humorous fellow: a kindly word, and you may do anything with him.
Our main contention on this mass of orders is that, behind the genial facade of the uprating, there lurks a series of pitfalls.
Academic charisma flowed not from fame, but rather from one's genial originality, the recognition of which generated one's fame (and thus the cash flow and credit and so on).
The disadvantages are that one gets a typology of groups and strategies without much in depth socio-historical analysis or transnational connectivities or any other conclusion than a genial-but very important-ecumenicism.