Emma Willard

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

American Activist

Seth Shostak

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

American Scientist

David Hepworth

Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's things like this that give podcasts their charm.

British Journalist

Walter Bagehot

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

English Author

Robertson Davies

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Canadian Novelist

Harriet Martineau

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

English Writer

Washington Irving

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

American Writer

James Payn

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

English Novelist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Alan Bennett

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

English Dramatist

Use 'genial' to express a kind and welcoming attitude towards others.

Expressing Welcome

'Genial' implies that someone not only is friendly but also encourages pleasant social interaction.

Positive Interaction

'Genial' suggests friendliness without implying deep affection or intimacy.

Not Overly Intimate

'Genial' describes weather that is comfortably mild and makes people feel at ease.

Ideal Conditions

Beyond weather, 'genial' can describe any surrounding conditions that are pleasant.

Surrounding Atmosphere

When referring to weather, 'genial' means it's neither too hot nor too cold.

Not Extreme

 Ordinary barbers, clerks, white-collar people. So, you go down, one of you will be a learner, one will be a teacher. The learner's a genial, middle-aged guy. He gets tied up to the shock apparatus in another room. The learner could be middle-aged, could be as young as 20. And one of you is told by the authority, the guy in the lab coat,