genial

Example Sentences

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Like the man himself, “Floyd Norman: An Animated Life” is genial on the surface but lets us go a little deeper into an unusual life than we might have expected.

From Los Angeles Times

A modest, genial family man who for many years had thick bowl-cut gray hair, Mr. Jakes seemed ill suited for the celebrity life.

From New York Times

Academy members are so delighted by that film’s genial Mexican auteur that they even squeezed his dark, expensive noir “Nightmare Alley” into last year’s best-picture race after most pundits had pronounced it dead.

From New York Times

Don't let the "Avatar" director's level genial demeanor in "Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron" fool you, because that is the tense vibe pulsing right under the surface of this hourlong expedition.

From Salon

Although some critics accused Garang of spending too much in foreign capitals or complained that his genial demeanour masked a ruthless streak, his death might have robbed the country of its greatest force for unity.

From Reuters