conviviality

Some liberals, too, lament the rebrand, though largely for different reasons: they see it as another step in the long flattening of American restaurants, where corporate sleekness overtakes idiosyncrasy, hospitality or even basic conviviality.

“Joy is an act of resistance,” state party Chairman Rusty Hicks gamely suggested at a beer-and-wine reception, which opened the party’s annual three-day convention with as much conviviality as the downtrodden could muster.

The Danish community was a wonderful way to grow up, with folk-dance classes and parties and such conviviality — all those smoking Danes, cigars up the wazoo, the whole place filled with smoke!

He enjoyed the conviviality, however foreign it was to him.

But I have had some of the richest experiences of companionability and conviviality at George's table, breaking bread.