genially

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Partisanship was in many ways alien to Cowley’s probing and genially learned critical temperament, which Mr. Howard describes as “Emersonian, humanistic, exploratory.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Industry publication Screen Daily said the film was "shot, one suspects, with a touch of guerrilla ingenuity... Last Swim also has a palpably improvised component in the friends' genially pitched running banter."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

Gill’s police chief, 5 feet tall, walrus mustache, considered genially effective if utterly corrupt.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Recent tradition, no matter the party affiliation, has had the current president genially hosting his immediate predecessor for the unveiling - as Clinton did for George H.W.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2022

With his pipe, genially self-effacing manner, and electrified hair, Einstein was too splendid a figure to remain permanently obscure, and in 1919, the war over, the world suddenly discovered him.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson