genial

• I suggest all find a copy of Reagan's Iran Contra apology speech "I can't believe I would have done this but apparently I did", and you will see McCain's fate - well meaning, genial, and just slowed enough mentally to be entirely manipulated by the neocons. —  Top Stories - Google News
• The three encores salute Heifetz as much as they pay homage to that other genial, affirmative spirit, Fritz Kreisler. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• Add to this description an ever-genial, pleased expression of countenance, with considerable sprightliness of manner dashed with something like naďveté_; then picture them in trousers and jackets, with their hoods, and those irresistibly comical "tails,"--and you have Wutchee and Wunchee_, the belles of our island kingdom After our supper of eggs, of which they soon brought as many as seven or eight dozen, Raed proposed that we should take a look at the interior of some of their huts. —  Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
• He is in genial, after-dinner mood, and that fairy-looking being, sitting by his side on a low ottoman, is our former friend, Winnie Morris. —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
• He was whole-souled, genial, and at all times the most delightful of companions. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

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