conviviality

• “The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede.”

  Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

• “How do you think the leadership can get around to this kind of conviviality that we're seeing here?”

  CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009

• “These upstarts made a sales pitch tuned to our anti-ESF prejudices, promising "human class size," "conviviality" and "a warm welcome.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Skiing Without the Lift

• “Mr. Bond [Bondfield], and the returns of civility on my part could only be communicated [to] me through the same Channel, a kind of conviviality so tdious and irksome, that I had much rather have remained in silent Observation and Reflection.”

  John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778

• “I know you can't dine here in consequence of the tempestuous weather on the Covent Garden shores, but if you will come in when you have done Trinculizing, you will delight me greatly, and add in no inconsiderable degree to the "conviviality" of the meeting.”

  The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870

• “If you take away from food the wholeness of growing it or take away the joy and conviviality of preparing it in your own home, then I believe you are talking about a whole new definition of the human being.”

  Butterfly Effect

• “Brooks uses the Yiddish word "haimish" to describe what it was the simpler camps had but the luxurious ones did not, a word that "suggests warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Rossmann, SJ: Finding God And Community In Simple Dwellings

• “The ambiance, even in the crowded capital, is one of conviviality and reflection.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Schuller: Did You Drink Soup? Strains on Solidarity in Haiti

• “There is something to be said for not unwittingly losing the "warmth and conviviality" in our lives as we grow in our financial prosperity.”

  The Huffington Post: Maria Lin: Holiday Shopping: How To Spend Money Well

• “The result of such intimacy is an unusual sense of the contradictions of a man whose rough manner concealed great kindness, and whose conviviality masked a profound morbidity.”

  The Guardian: A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson – review

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