He was genial and disarmingly sympathetic to the hospitalists' concerns.
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His emphasis was on the genial, the playful, the attractive.
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She was genial and chipper, giggling whenever anyone else laughed.
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Always a polished, genial singer, he has grown more expressive.
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He was a genial American eccentric, cultivating his own slant.
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The company presented itself as a genial alternative to Uber.
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They find the team more genial than Barack Obama's "pen-pushers".
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Tenemos un tiempo de exhibición en salas, lo cual es genial.
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Khan was in a relaxed mood; he is never quite genial.
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He had, in point of fact, created a gentle, genial misunderstanding.
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The genial, hard-drinking chef continues his trek around the world.
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Now in the States, Yeun tends to get offered genial characters.
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They're all genial and bright and therefore difficult, individually, to dislike.
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He knew that the sales representatives were smart, genial and motivated.
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Mr Jones is genial and steady, Mr Moore preening, sour and angry.
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The WFP spokeswoman said meetings with donors were genial, open and frank.
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Will the genial Mr. Dooley, who is interim chief executive through Sept.
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With the exception of Paul, Republicans were largely genial throughout the hearing.
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One could not have a more genial guide for such a tour.
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" Parker says Sherman and Palmer depict the president as "bumbling, if genial.
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"The cheese is folded in like a present!" a genial waiter offered.
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In "The Winter's Tale," a 2014 co-production of London's Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada—the Canadians just brought it to the Lincoln Center Festival—this genial, perhaps too genial, artist has finally created something disturbing.
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"Look, Jose," the cop said to the genial grandfather sitting across the desk.
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"The 64-year-old architect was in a genial mood," Mr. Sullivan wrote.
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INITIALLY the mood at Doug Jones's election-night party was genial but uneasy.
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His genial manner and resemblance to his portly father have won him support.
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She had the common touch that he, genial but patrician, so patently lacked.
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"I'm having a wonderful time tonight," Barker said in his famously genial way.
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The Moon is in Water sign Cancer, putting you in an genial mood.
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Perhaps what's most admirable about these essays is their genial and searching tone.
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"As himself, he has this genial demeanor," Mr. Iannucci said of Mr. Palin.
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Even after the press was ushered out, the meeting continued its genial way.
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In a genial confirmation hearing for one of the Senate's more genial former members, the only major concern Senate Intelligence Committee members repeatedly raised was that Coats might be too nice for the job as director of national intelligence (DNI).
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"Even robots have bad days," he then quipped to genial laughs around the room.
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While Mr. Burke comes across as genial and low-key, he's a demanding boss.
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AT FIRST, the mood at Doug Jones's election-night party was genial but uneasy.
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He is also unfailingly genial and, for a politician, almost bashful about his achievements.
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At a mostly genial confirmation hearing last week for several acquisition-related positions, Sen.
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Genial Mr Kaine represents a pitch by Mrs Clinton for some of those votes.
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That now extends to federal education policy, once a sleepy backwater of genial bipartisanship.
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Tall, blond, and sweetly genial, he retains a Russian accent and sense of humor.
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At his otherwise genial confirmation hearing earlier this month, McConville was grilled by Sen.
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W. was a genial candidate who gave no hint of the doom to come.
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Then one of the town's deputy mayors, a genial lawyer named Ayman Shanati, spoke.
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Eddie, my driving instructor, seemed like a genial guy when he returned from lunch.
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In the 2008 race, he was a more vivid and genial debater than Obama.
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Beneath his smooth, genial, almost inhumanly productive and evasive surface, there were turbulent waters.
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The genial host of Davos, he must be careful not to upset his guests.
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Bill Elliott, his folksy and genial father, was known as Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.
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He seemed to be genial and definitely very happy to be in the movie.
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Today, interviewed in Denver's neoclassical civic centre, the mayor cuts a genial but earnest figure.
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The priest at Our Lady of the Lake is a genial Nigerian missionary, Theo Okpara.
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Still, as the night wore on, and no police appeared, the crowd stayed largely genial.
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Tomasz Grela, a genial new Polish doctor in Spalding, is not too worried about Brexit.
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Morley Safer, the genial fixture on CBS's "63 Minutes" for more than five decades, died.
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Mr. Hastert's fall from genial retired House speaker and hometown celebrity was sudden and steep.
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What started as a genial hearing with neither McCain nor the committee's ranking member, Sen.
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Come by at around 8:30 for some convivial startup conversation and general genial tomfoolery.
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It was barely noticeable yet insistent, just a genial note reminding me I was hungry.
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But Mr. Kesler, an unfailingly genial West Virginian, doesn't seem to mind Wilson's intellectual company.
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Just as significant, though, he had the personality: genial, professional and, compared to Guardiola, relaxed.
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"Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language," Sittenfeld writes.
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Creo que usar la vestimenta de las criadas como mecanismo de protesta es algo genial.
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In general, the energy was genial but listless — which made the occasional edgy joke startling.
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To most people in the quiet Oklahoma neighborhood, McFadden was known as a genial, generous person.
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Quick and incisive as his mind was, Justice Stevens remained a genuinely genial, unpretentious, modest man.
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Folksy and genial, the 70-year-old Moore has the lacquered look of an aging televangelist.
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Moore, Cincinnati's genial director of transportation and engineering, has a spacious office on the fourth floor.
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After more than five decades, he's a comfortable, genial lecturer, even in one-on-one conversation.
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Lauer, the longest-running host in "Today" history, successfully radiated a genial, nice-guy, family feeling.
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The jokes are genial but wan, and the storytelling rudimentary, but the music is lovingly resuscitated.
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Mr. Salazar, a sturdy and genial presence, is not entirely persuasive as a hotshot management consultant.
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But Depp's genial reception at the show and the acceptance speech tells a very different story.
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He's a PhD historian with a talent for campaign strategy, a genial conservative with pragmatic instincts.
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There are just a rockabilly twang and a tone of genial, grateful satisfaction in her voice.
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In meetings, Mr. Trump appears to prefer Dr. Birx's genial approach over Dr. Fauci's blunt talk.
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The results can be thunderous battle, delicate sympathy, genial play — sometimes all in the same piece.
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Call it what you like — genial, glib, real — but it was a breath of fresh air.
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"You better have an appropriate amount of fear," he said, and offered a genial raptor's grin.
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Genial, sloppy, full of conventional lines, they sometimes have little twists that save them from disaster.
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She's a regular at honky-tonks and said two-stepping is more genial than dancing in nightclubs.
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"[He was] much more spry and genial and magical than I ever could have expected," Tyrnauer said.
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Mr Kasich is too pragmatic and, in a fraught time, too genial for most Republican primary voters.
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Ted Chapin, the genial president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization for three decades, hosted the show.
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While FCC meetings are usually boring and genial events, today's is likely to be a bit different.
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Duets always settled into a genial give-and-take when they sometimes needed to argue and stab.
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Elaine does attract men easily, beginning with a genial hippie professor type named Wayne (Jeffrey Vincent Parise).
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Murphy is not one of those genial lawmakers whose affable demeanor makes him popular with his peers.
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Another evacuee in Riverside described a genial atmosphere, despite the tense circumstances and lack of outside contact.
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After the musical adventures of the first half, however, Dvorak's genial quartet was something of a letdown.
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Despite the mutual enmity that preceded it, the Trump tech summit turned out to be a genial affair.
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He comes across as a genial but boring corporate executive who probably went to an Ivy League school.
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Like Goodbaum, friends and acquaintances of Gorsuch, many of them Democrats, said he is genial, tolerant and respectful.
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The actress' long, iconic run as Rachel on Friends has let people enjoy a genial familiarity with her.
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Obama didn't anticipate that Romney would audaciously try to pass himself off as a genial, Massachusetts-moderate Republican.
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The real American masculine style, as Sinclair Lewis shrewdly saw, is not tight-lipped-stoical but wheezy-genial.
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The genial Monsieur Ange hosts tastings in an open-air wine bar decorated with vintage insignia and advertisements.
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It is no surprise that Turkey has turned more genial; it needs all the friends it can get.
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Jealous came across as genial and earnest, never letting his audience forget the seriousness of the political stakes.
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Like Reagan, who had become his political hero, he could present even extreme positions in genial, nonthreatening terms.
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For Billy Bush, the presidential cousin and genial Hollywood interviewer, 2016 was supposed to be a transformative year.
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Others regaled me with tales of the racial and religious intolerance that lurked beneath the county's genial surface.
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Unlike "Solo," which ambles from one set piece to the next in a spirit of genial in-betweenness.
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Claro, aún puedes comprar aplicaciones de iPhone con la tarjeta, pero iTunes ya no es una marca genial.
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Plain-spoken and genial, he was the first U.A.W. leader who had not been close to Mr. Reuther.
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This particular candidate wanted to win and was genial and a good man, but he was innately stubborn.
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Initially owned by a genial old Italian American, the company is hit hard by national and international pressures.
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Palmer, a magnetic and genial golfer, brought sports into the modern mercantile era and helped globalize the game.
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The brief, genial hearing touched on challenges the two will face, including North Korea, China and missile defense.
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But he was warm and genial, brightening as he began to report on his fledgling days of fatherhood.
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The genial Fallon, who hosts NBC's late night "The Tonight Show," says his brand of humor is more subtle.
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Mr Brenninkmeijer's ancestors—considered to be genial, virtuous, Catholic and reserved—turned out to have been avid Nazi collaborators.
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Dick and I weren't close, but he was a genial, well-liked guy: smart, funny, and, yes, sometimes acerbic.
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"You might see them in the hills," the genial woman who gave us the key to our house said.
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Still, in both these books, the humor is essentially benign, genial, and it works in service of the characters.
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Snapshot Despite his genial persona, David Schwimmer is drawn to characters who are struggling, broken, flawed and in pain.
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Katori Hall's genial play, built around a cooking contest in Memphis, uses a sitcom structure to explore black masculinity.
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When the team upset the highly ranked Florida during the regular season, my excitement was met with genial indifference.
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Mr. Gushner, who is 266 and carries himself with genial authority, belongs to the third generation of Gushner ownership.
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The genial mood is aided by a plucky score, and a restrained performance from August in the lead role.
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Out went Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the genial former governor of Texas and onetime Dancing with the Stars contestant.
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He appeared in a more genial mood by the time he strode down the red carpet to greet reporters.
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The first violinist, Jeffrey Myers, responded with gracious figures played in a melting tone, setting up a genial dialogue.
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Mr. Dokoupil, 36, a genial man whom she calls "a heartbreaker," was reading a recipe for a seafood dish.
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ABC's late-night star hasn't been a stranger to political humor, but he enjoyed a genial, even-handed persona.
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At the time, foreign oil executives and analysts largely welcomed the arrival of the genial and low-profile technocrat.
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Genial and white-haired, Wicker has been in elected office for three decades, and yet rarely makes national headlines.
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The role was as iconic as it was silly, establishing Reeves as an avatar of genial, mind-blown empty-headedness.
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A genial man in his 60s with a gray goatee, he leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms.
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Pence defused the antagonism with the wry smile of a genial old man humoring a simpleton -- and won most rounds.
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Essentially, what happens is the very embodiment of what Porowski loves about cooking: The genial warmth of people coming together.
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Louisiana Secretary of State Schedler declined the Russian request in a genial manner, according to a copy of an Aug.
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As for Ladies' Night, it took me a long time to assemble a coterie of mothers as genial and supportive.
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By choosing the genial Mr. Kaine as her running mate over liberal firebrands like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mrs.
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After all, the genial California Republican was the House Majority Leader, the 2nd highest-ranking job within the GOP conference.
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He was a fussy eater but an otherwise genial baby; the Preslars' friends commented on the twinkle in his eyes.
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If the show nevertheless feels basically genial, it's a tribute to the cast, which is scarily comfortable selling this hooey.
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His character, genial and insightful one minute, robotic and cruel the next, never really cohered, and neither did the performance.
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Bruce Banner has fused with Hulk and become an almost too genial fellow; Thor has fallen into depression and alcoholism.
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His accomplishments earned him memberships in scientific societies around the world, and his colleagues remembered him as a genial educator.
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A career member of the Labour Party, he has the everyday bearing of a genial denizen of the corner pub.
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I love the sort of genial humor that permeates this grid — clues for HEN and RASP, for example, and STAIN.
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He was a genial narrator, a kind of hovering intelligence, pulling his fans through the healing places in his songs.
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That periodization reflected the views of the genial professors who populated our history department, who took their cue from Charles Beard.
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From his canvassing, Jerry Reinoehl, a genial veteran and campaign volunteer, reckoned his man would do better than expected among minorities.
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Christian Frederick Martin IV is a genial, mellow raconteur who shouldn't be mistaken for a man who doesn't know his business.
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But for the genial father and devoted husband who once filled my television set, the funny man who felt like family.
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Rather, he is a genial if crotchety fellow, so confident of his genius that he doesn't have to shout about it.
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But in photographs, Francis looked less genial than usual, and some wondered whether the wishes had been delivered through gritted teeth.
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Small and compact at age 84, with a genial face, Brown greeted me in his office wearing an elegant purple suit.
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Trump broke every rule in the 2012 playbook, and Bannon's martial rhetoric is the opposite of the genial "welcoming" it commanded.
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The genial septuagenarian has long enjoyed a sort of behind-the-scenes prominence, well known to Washington insiders and business leaders.
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With his death, the city has lost an architect who conveyed a genial joy in resuscitating the masterworks of his predecessors.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the musical "Hamilton," is a genial guide to both tales.
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At this point, Rogers, in his genial, friendly manner, explained the concept to children, a soft piano tinkling in the background.
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Then, supported by the orchestra, the piano elongates the theme and takes exploratory excursions into genial-sounding passages of spiraling triples.
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Twin City locals might describe their home-town temperament as a genial passivity combined with a fondness for the last word.
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". Y, por primera vez, no escuché en mi cabeza algo como: "¿Qué está haciendo un tipo genial con una mujer ciega?
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Mr. Rynard, 34, is a genial former Democratic operative who left his job in 2015 to try his hand at journalism.
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And about Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce.
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Yo por lo general vestía un mono (o enterizo) azul; Erik lucía genial en unos pantalones cortos y ceñidos de mezclilla.
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While Shine was generally described as a genial presence within the walls of the White House, he left no real footprint.
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A genial dealmaker, he settled permitting issues and ironed out the countless details of building a large library and visitor center.
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Some restaurants are comfortable, some are delectable, and a small number, like Santa Fe, strike a genial balance between the two.
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In person, an uneducated party might expect this from Abraham: he is warm and genial, quick to dole out a hearty chuckle.
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Instead, he talked to his interlocutors—mostly ordinary Democrats, as well as host Chris Cuomo—in a genial, good-natured, conversational way.
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So much of what we see on our screens and hear on our stereos is processed to the point of genial blandness.
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"Kung Fu Panda 2," in 2011, ended with a surprise: The title panda, genial Po (Jack Black), wasn't an orphan, after all.
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During his grueling testimony, Kavanaugh maintained a genial demeanor, blunting some of the most aggressive questioning from Democrats seeking to unsettle him.
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He is personally genial, loves the cut and thrust of politics, and as a former congressman retains access to the House floor.
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Many will turn out again now that the genial Cyril Ramaphosa has succeeded Mr Zuma as ANC boss and South Africa's president.
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A brilliant yet unassuming Chicagoan who favored silk bowties, he was as genial and generous as he was prolific and long-serving.
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The Wand can't play music, and its press-button functionality means it won't automatically respond to the genial "Hey, Alexa" wake command.
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"1983-1988," the first substantial anthology devoted to Egyptian Lover's work, is 22 tracks of genial sleaze, throbbing and fantastical and slick.
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The atmosphere in Lille ahead of the game, each team's tournament opener, was largely genial, particularly around the stadium as kickoff approached.
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Well, it's odd to see Jackman, of all people, tighten his genial features in disgust, whether at himself or at other souls.
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Clinton had bitch bona fides that ran counter to her husband's public image as a genial, thumbs-up Bubba of the people.
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He presents himself in that debate as genial and essentially a relatively safe choice for people who are looking for a change.
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But none of that seems adequate to explain the intensity of their resentment (which the more genial Meyer seems to have escaped).
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Spieth, still the earnest, genial boy next door, did his best to clarify his position despite a mystifying unwillingness to be specific.
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Republicans and Democrats have a history of nominating presidential candidates genial and ideologically flexible enough to expand their support beyond party loyalists.
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This context, they say, can account for the otherwise genial-looking Americans now prone to screaming obscenities at reporters during Trump rallies.
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The 2628-minute call is largely congratulatory and genial, as it took place on April 28500, the day Zelensky won his election.
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The 16-minute call is largely congratulatory and genial, as it took place on April 21, the day Zelensky won his election.
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Several of the governor's allies and adversaries said they were watching the newly genial Mr. Kasich, as a presidential candidate, with bewilderment.
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Pastor Jeffers (Cedric Kyles), a genial fellow who runs the local megachurch, which seats five thousand worshippers, is concerned by Toller's state.
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ALEX GARLAND: Nick's character, Forest, is in some ways genial and affable, but in other ways there's something really dark inside him.
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Elba's considerable skills in projecting menace and resolve don't come into play and he mostly just looks genial and a little lost.
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The genial Mr. Ramasar is playing against type; Mr. Salstein, who has left the classical world behind, just feels free to dance.
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A uniformed valet stood waiting for our car with a genial welcome and cold water as we pulled around the port-cochere.
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Venture reporter and genial chap Jason D. Rowley put that figure at $295 billion, give or take, at the end of 2019.
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"Me encanta MTurk y las oportunidades que les da a las personas: es genial por lo que es, un ingreso adicional", comentó.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV, 70, wearing a police press pass from 1975, recalled a more genial path through the paper's hornet's nest.
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Gamine and nimble, her Cherubino was spirited without being overplayed, in a genial revival of Richard Eyre's production that runs through Feb.
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I misread "Help badly" as "Help baldy" which kept an elusive sure thing — ABET, a genial pun — from abetting my southwest corner.
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At the start, the music (inspired by the writings of Marilynne Robinson) is genial with bits of breezy tunes and lilting riffs.
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"We are losing people," Pryce's then-Cardinal Bergoglio says, a warning presented, as is his way, in a charming and genial matter.
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On Thursday, Nakasone he faced lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee for a second confirmation hearing, a meeting that was largely genial.
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Mr. Abrams knows the building well and, with a genial style and sharp views, knows how to navigate the national security bureaucracy.
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I misread "Help badly" as "Help baldy" which kept an elusive sure thing — ABET, a genial pun — from abetting my southwest corner.
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If his right-hand passagework did not always sparkle, it hardly mattered, for all the genial warmth and integrity of his playing.
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It's always asked in the same way — with genial good humor and an air of expectation, as if they already know the answer.
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"Harry Strickland had always been a genial man, better at hammering out contracts than at hammering on foes," Connington says in the book.
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This new Ghostbusters doesn't entirely succeed, but its genial insistence that it has every right to be its own movie is downright triumphant.
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Felicioli and Gagnol's latest may be trying to do a few too many things at once, given its short length and genial aims.
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Now that the genial Texas Republican has become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Brady has got real power, too.
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Genial in public and so fond of golf that he installed a putting green outside the Oval Office, Eisenhower was easy to underestimate.
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The genial relationship she appeared to have with Mr. Blankfein and other Wall Street executives at the events would not have served Mrs.
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" Jared Whitaker, a genial cotton agronomist with the University of Georgia's agricultural extension service in Tifton, joked, "Sure, I'll talk about climate change!
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After the genial repertory explorations and playful experiments of Alan Gilbert, this may well be an era of more driven, even fussy performances.
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Quizá se preguntaban por qué un chico genial y con vista normal como Alabaster estaba con una mujer ciega que parecía un lastre.
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A father of two daughters and a lover of science fiction, Mr. Acosta is known within his department for being humble and genial.
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It's an alluring performance, pitched between leathery guardedness and vulnerability, and spiked with the genial self-abnegation that defined Hugh Grant's early career.
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For the reality-TV incarnation of his career, Mr. Money had become more genial jokester than rocker, one with a self-deprecating streak.
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For the reality-TV incarnation of his career, Mr. Money had become more genial jokester than rocker, one with a self-deprecating streak.
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One of the people who seems to always show up is Richard, a genial man from New Zealand who now lives in Brooklyn.
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Jane works with two other young male assistants (Jon Orsini and Noah Robbins), who treat her with what might be called genial misogyny.
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The day after Kaitlan Collins and Hunter Walker's Twitter feud, they sat near the back of the briefing room, making genial small talk.
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Act I begins, inevitably, with her father Henry, the legendary actor, whose genial on-screen persona belied the tumult that characterized their home.
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Typically genial, even Swinney admitted in recent days that he was still peeved by the sequence and how it crushed the Tigers' hopes.
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Kate, Justin, Jon, and Theresa are warily genial with each other when they first meet, and they go through the motions of becoming friends.
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The meeting had a genial tone, as tech leaders joked with Trump and seemed committed to playing nice and working toward the greater good.
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Chuck will be remembered for his genial manner and the outstanding example he set for others, particularly for African-American umpires who followed him.
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When the Beatles dissolved the previous year, many wondered how the genial stickman would fare without the compositional help of McCartney and John Lennon.
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Earlier this summer, I visited the New Square synagogue with Rabbi Sternberg, a wry and genial fifty-eight-year-old with a reddish beard.
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What comes next is like a genial competition show mixed with summer camp activities — the nine cast-members gather for acting exercises and improv.
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NASHVILLE — Sonny James, a genial crooner of the 1960s and '70s with 26 No. 1 country hits to his credit, died here on Monday.
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Chick started off as a garden variety magazine cartoonist in the Virgil Partch mold, but stretched that genial idiom to encompass nightmarish Boschian imagery.
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Rensin's wondered whether "this genial, bow-tied eccentric really the most qualified and effective person for the job," but ultimately answered in the affirmative.
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Two genial men anchor the proceedings: Freddie Prinze Jr. as host and Dana Carvey as "expert in residence," as the show's publicity puts it.
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Aunque "es una oportunidad genial y está generando mucho interés en Harley, los periodos de atención de la gente son increíblemente breves", agregó Craddock.
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Wishnatzki is a genial sixty-three-year-old third-generation berry man, who wears a white goatee and speaks softly, with a Southern drawl.
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Recently, over lunch, his wife, a slim and genial woman named Lu Ann, asked the waiter to bring her order without the fried egg.
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Responding to a prolonged ovation, she played Beethoven's genial late Bagatelle No. 5 in G from the six Opus 126 bagatelles, as an encore.
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The passengers were incredibly curious as to why I was on a Chinese cruise, while at the same time being very genial toward us.
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Though he doesn't mask his expressions — usually astounded, though never mocking — he's a genial interviewer, empathic, he says, even if he can't be sympathetic.
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"Hold My Hand," a spectacularly comfy and genial-seeming roots-rock song that was the band's breakthrough hit, is a "protest song," Rucker said.
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Jack Bannon, who played the genial and raffish assistant city editor Art Donovan on the long-running television series "Lou Grant," died on Oct.
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Peter Sallis, a British actor, brought genial eccentricity to the voice of the cheese-loving Wallace in the "Wallace & Gromit" stop-motion animated films.
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MOTHER OF THE BRIDE Sarah is on the other side of a heavy white curtain with Michael, a genial young man with precision stubble.
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Twelve seats, jazz, a genial host from Osaka who speaks English and every Scotch and bourbon you can think of (66-2-662-223).
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Led by aging Chief Bobnar (Timothy Spall), this genial tribe of cave folk live an idyllic life in their valley, mostly hunting rabbits together.
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And even with his friendly human name and genial tone, IBM worries that its supercomputer Watson might still face misconceptions among the public at large.
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Lakou Mizik, formed after the devastating Haitian earthquakes of 2010, is a genial cross-generational coalition along the lines of the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Down on Earth, she has a genial husband (a mustachioed Dan Stevens) who works in public relations at NASA, and a comfortable home in Houston.
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The remedy most conservatives have adopted, consciously or otherwise, is to devise more genial justifications for their conclusions and use those to backfill their arguments.
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The amorous relationship between Ricky and one of the teachers, the genial Luce (a buoyant Rey Lucas), also injects a formulaic note into the proceedings.
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"Choosing Companions," from her radiant 1991 opera, "Atlas," is a bright, utterly strange, entirely endearing trio, a genial (if almost entirely abstract) expression of camaraderie.
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This was a somewhat dispiriting affair, with a middling cast and a genial but indistinct performance by the Knights, under the direction of Eric Jacobsen.
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For the past few years, the show essentially settled for the status quo, tapping ABC's genial late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel, to emcee the awards.
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But she's grief-struck, recovering from the death of her mother, who shot herself in the head, and dealing with a genial but distant father.
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Litwin, a genial operator with a Star of David chain, was then working as a party and concert promoter while selling gold and diamond grills.
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But in this show, he's mostly relaxed and genial, cruising around in lavish whips and bantering with star-studded friends from his seemingly unlimited Rolodex.
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That he does die comes as a surprise, but not as big a surprise as the loss we feel when this genial fellow is silenced.
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Baker is genial and patient, doling out compliments to his endearing, snarky, overmedicated, and underengaged charges, who range in age from kindergarten to high school.
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He's a one-man industry, and though he comes across as kind, genial and scholarly, his success is underpinned by a smart sense of business.
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"How we get from relatively genial terms like 'bromance' or 'man cave' to more critical terms like 'broflake' or 'manspreading' is interesting," Ms. Martin said.
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Alton Sterling was a genial father of five known as "CD Man," a fixture who sold music outside the Triple S Mart to support his family.
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She is challenging Joe Crowley, a genial and effective machine pol who has worked his way, hard, to a shot at taking over from Nancy Pelosi.
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Bernthal brings authenticity to every moment, quickly moving from impassive or even genial into hyper-violent when he's threatened or just needs to make a point.
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The sphere is now overseen by a genial triad of middle-aged men, two brothers and a cousin: Jacob, Peter and Marcus Wallenberg (pictured, next page).
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LG: It's not just the subject matter but it's also sort of a genial myopia when it comes to the approach for some of these things.
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Eye contact is how we humans establish recognition and thereby — at least potentially — reciprocity, which is the basis of genial, or at least benign, human interaction.
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Thorncroft speaks with a clipped but genial frankness common to many people who are British and also to many people who are very good at math.
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The overall ambience is genial, welcoming and very generous of spirit, courtesy of a largely self-made group who have gathered because of a common passion.
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It is the kind of event at which the genial, informal Francis excels (the picture shows him greeting the faithful in St Peter's Square in Rome).
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In a genial confirmation hearing late last month, the only major concern committee members repeatedly raised was that Coats might be too nice for the job.
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Officer Liu, a genial-looking man who appeared to be in his late thirties, greeted me politely but clearly wasn't eager to engage in a conversation.
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A large man — "I've done every diet you can think of," he once told The A.P. — Mr. Botha could be a stolid, if genial, presence onstage.
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Snow, who was in his 60s, leaned forward at the lectern, speaking in his genial Texas drawl about blindfolded skulls and bodies dumped in clandestine graves.
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Somewhat predictably, the narrative hangs on father issues, but Mr. Dengler is a genial raconteur, and we rarely encounter his kind of experience at the theater.
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"What is the situation here?" it asked her, employing the voice of one of NPR's most genial hosts, a voice designed to put people at ease.
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In a genial confirmation hearing late last month, the only major concern committee members repeatedly raised was that Coats might be too nice for the job.
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While previous iterations of the First have elected Republicans down-ballot while supporting Democratic presidential candidates, Blum isn't as moderate or genial as those past representatives.
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Another six courses followed, written on the menu mostly in Afrikaans but explained, verbally in English, usually by the genial auburn-bearded Mr. van der Merwe.
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"Obviously, I literally got my dream draw," said Gauff, as genial in the interview room as she had been intent on destruction on No. 1 Court.
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He should have joined the House at the start of the Reagan era, when his brand of genial, wonky conservatism had an ally in the president.
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One of her first clients was Emad Hassan, a genial young man with an easy sense of humor, held at Gitmo because of a translation error.
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It takes a village to nurture a restaurant, and Simic, a genial host, pitches in with some lip-smacking drinks, arranged in categories that set expectations.
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When asked about the initial auction mayhem in retrospect, he speaks as though swarms of crickets are par for the course, his tone light and genial.
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Zúñiga, then in his early forties, was boyish, genial, and, after a decade working in Latin-American affairs, deeply versed in the intricacies of regional policy.
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A genial 51-year-old with an earnest demeanor, Mr. Ferguson cuts an unlikely figure as an antagonist for the most pugilistic president in modern times.
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His adventures — shootouts, bar fights and poker hands punctuated by musical numbers and bouts of genial, straight-to-camera philosophizing — set the tone for what follows.
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This genial, unassuming London-born designer consistently marries imaginative artistry with commercial nous with his utilitarian work wear, largely rooted around ideas of timeless, nomadic men.
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He is genial and expansive and his working-class origins could help him win back the support of former Democrats in places that have recently voted Republican.
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Me, I melted when two little girls started singing the backup chorus from Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" (one of many genial nods to classics).
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At times, Trump aides have vented that frustration in language that was contemptuous of Mr. Priebus, a genial Wisconsin lawyer who has been chairman for five years.
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People are having a fine old time riffing on his genial manner, his festive sweater and the disposable camera he used to snap pictures after the event.
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Just weeks later, the original sponsor of the Illinois privacy act, a genial Chicago-area lawmaker named Terry Link, abruptly proposed an amendment to his own law.
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The older Mr. Pence has the same white hair, genial bearing and deeply conservative politics of his brother, and his campaign is tethered to the Trump administration.
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When one regular suggested that Tuberman makes the saunas hotter and the pool colder — a sentiment repeated ad nauseam in past articles— it precipitated a genial argument.
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Finally, he greets his friend working the deli counter with a warm, genial familiarity, and lies about having convinced the manager to give him his job back.
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Sometimes he has listless and genial sex with a friend (Riki Lindhome) who shows up after acting gigs in a dirndl or a nurse's costume, bearing sushi.
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Ministers emerging from the 90-minute breakfast in a back room of The Smith, a brasserie near the United Nations, described the meeting as genial and productive.
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How else to explain the unexpected success of a genial, middling film like "Knives Out," which revived the slumbering cinematic tradition of the country house murder mystery?
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The genial 2008 indie "Bottle Shock," free on Amazon Prime, is a paean to connoisseurship, depicting in fiction form the rise of California wines in the 1970s.
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At the superstar level, it offers an unlikely blend: the soaring Carrie Underwood and the swaggering Alan Jackson, the snarling Eric Church and the genial Thomas Rhett.
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Barkley is paid by a network to express colorful opinions, but missing the greater context made him sound less the genial analyst and more the generational scold.
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What's chilling about both is they initially present as engaged, courteous, even genial men, with a strongly developed moral sense and a genuine interest in others as humans.
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In stark contrast to the genial barflies at Cheers, a Boston watering-hole, Sloan is well-educated and middle-class—but also, it turns out, vain and deceitful.
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Bill Nelson took out a decent chunk of time to applaud social media's ability to bring people together during tragic times, and it was a mostly genial session.
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With his youthful earnestness, genial personality and devotion to conservative policy, Paul Ryan enjoyed a special stature within GOP even before he became House speaker late last year.
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"Come What May" grafts a suspense narrative involving multinational characters to a story of genial rural folk compelled to flee their homes before they're overrun by bloodthirsty trespassers.
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As he hopscotches from state to state, Mr. Kaine comes across more as a genial traveling salesman for the Clinton-Kaine ticket than as a president in waiting.
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Emma Thompson plays the curmudgeonly P.L. Travers (the author of the original book) to great effect, and Tom Hanks is, unsurprisingly, a perfect fit for the genial Disney.
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At his genial confirmation hearing, Gilday talked to senators about U.S. plans for a naval coalition to protect commercial ships in the Gulf region amid tensions with Iran.
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That's one major thing that separates him from America's other showbiz president, Ronald Reagan: Unlike Reagan, Trump doesn't have a genial, cheerfully paternal star image to work with.
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"We're beyond stoked," said Michael Perzy Powers, a co-owner of the Low Tide Bar and High 97 concessions at Beach 97th Street, eyeing a genial midafternoon crowd.
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Judging by images of him in painting and sculpture he was a genial, if mercurial, teacher, alternately baby-faced and beaming or stern in a nice-dad way.
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The handing out of prayer books as latecomers quietly arrive at temple, the genial shouts of 'Shabbat shalom' across neighborhood streets as friends spot old friends after services.
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Based on trailers and the durable, slightly stale charm of its stars, "The House" might be mistaken for a genial, silly movie about nice people making questionable decisions.
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One reported flourishing in her first job (back in 1957) until her genial boss discovered that she was the gangster's great-niece — and fired her on the spot.
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Those were relatively informal concerts calculated to beat the heat, offering standard and lightish fare, which this genial British maestro introduced with witty palaver — often charming, occasionally tedious.
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It was there that the genial conservative came to the attention of Pope John Paul II, who appointed him auxiliary bishop of his home diocese of St. Louis.
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Era franco sobre las cínicas necesidades de la industria pop y la cruel distinción entre ser bueno y ser genial: la misma diferencia entre un cantante y una estrella.
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Mr. Wainwright's original songs over four decades amount to an autobiographical family history and its genial and witty surface camouflages an absurdist vision in which everything comes to naught.
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Senators who met with Trump said they discussed a range of issues from immigration to tax policy and were impressed at how "genial" and "affable" he was in person.
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When customers came in with puzzling rocks they had found, the owner, a genial Seventh-day Adventist named Dave Lehmann, stashed them behind the counter for Reed to appraise.
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I ask the man who lines up behind me — a genial type in his mid-50s wearing a Broncos T-shirt — what he's planning to do with his flamethrower.
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As this particular Englishman was genial—in possession of what you might call a clubbable personality—cultured and Catholic, he was well equipped to navigate the ex-Habsburg countries.
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Freedia's voice is also on "Nice for What," and the song's willingness to have an uncharacteristically genial Drake as a part of the warm, high-energy arrangement is welcome.
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Eisenhower played the genial, folksy man of the people, but his secretaries of state, John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter, were prominent members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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He still employs Clinton mannerisms on the stump: the bit lip of empathy, the genial head toggle as he adjudicates, the drill-sergeant jaw pop before he wades in.
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Spurling says that he was also genial (at least to people he liked), curious, a wonderful listener, and a tireless, heroic reader, and there's no reason to doubt her.
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As the Times first reported , on June 20163, 2016, a Facebook user depicting himself as Melvin Redick, a genial family man from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, posted a link to DCLeaks.
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It has an artsy, literary undertone befitting its Jamaica Plain setting, but with all the genial joviality—and good beer selection—you'd want out of your favorite local spot.
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The genial crowd included young families pushing babies in prams as well as the elderly braving 32-degree C (90 F) heat, some spraying each other with water misters.
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Kerr said he found it "fascinating" to play with Jordan because of his unique leadership style and compared him with Tim Duncan, a much more low-key, genial teammate.
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In Siedlce, a modest city halfway between Warsaw and the border with Belarus, I spoke to Wojciech Kudelski, the city's genial, elderly mayor in his office in City Hall.
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In eight novels produced in just over a decade, he has combined Kafka's paranoia with Whitman's earnest American grain to found a fictional kingdom of genial doom and melancholia.
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Like "High Fidelity," still the definitive distillation, on page and screen, of Mr. Hornby's genial cool-guy sensibility, "Juliet, Naked" hinges on an affectionately critical view of musical obsession.
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As the party scene shows, the Stahlbaums are a stereotypical American example of the nuclear family, and Mr. Morris sweetly lampoons their mixture of social anxiety and genial affection.
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Henderson, the second-largest city in Nevada with 316,000 residents, cultivates an image as Las Vegas's genial kid sibling, a spread of subdivisions, golf courses and master-planned communities.
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It also introduces Dennis Quaid into the cast as Michael Lennox, a genial fisherman intent on curing his terminally ill wife (Michelle Fairley) — and more unnameable dread than ever.
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Alex: This is a very genial format for Biden to address a whole bunch of difficult issues for his candidacy, including his age and his physical manner with women.
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His conservatism, of Sam's Club affectation, fiscal conservatism, tepid social liberalism, and genial trolling of center-leftists at Davos — whom does it speak for in today's politics, beyond Brooks?
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Scrappy moneymaking schemes involving a lively pit bull and the aforementioned sow weave in and out of the narrative, as do members of the young men's genial circle of friends.
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The genial pair (Mr Hurd is an ex-CIA agent unafraid to criticise Mr Trump) drew national attention with their livestreamed journey, as they munched bad food and debated politics.
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He is a compact, genial retired labour economist who spent 32 years studying employment patterns at the Bureau of Labour Statistics in Washington, DC, before retiring to southern New Hampshire.
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The genial elder Brit, the hard scientist — Clarke basically invented geosynchronous satellites — often had to nudge the impulsive Bronx-born director from what we can now see would have been.
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Miller's confirmation came just hours after his nomination was advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee and a little more than week after a largely genial hearing before the committee.
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In a largely genial hearing, several senators said they supported Miller and expected him to be easily confirmed to become the next commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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Each senator gets only five minutes to ask questions, and the result is a surreal, veering experience between sympathetic Democrats and Rachel Mitchell, the Republicans' genial but prosecutorial outside counsel.
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The story of their attachment unfolds like a genial dinner party where the conversation stays on the surface but the food goes deep and the host sets a buoyant tone.
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Mr. Stocks, a genial man who sprinkles historical tidbits about the statue into his conversation, recalled reading about the monument in history books while growing up, in Alabama and Florida.
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Chaiwali does not always have their caliber of professionalism; servers are genial but may forget dishes, and when it's time to clear the table, they may disappear into the vapor.
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"City of Gold," directed by Laura Gabbert, is an affectionate portrait of Mr. Gold, a genial walrus of a man with a graying ginger mane and a gentle, gaptoothed smile.
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Starting out as a genial, welcoming presence, the American actor Donald Sage Mackay's shrewdly observed performance charts a slide toward psychosis that allows the actor to both charm and chill.
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Then again, the stamps in the Passenger's passport have a more lasting presence than his anecdotes, because the genial, light-footed show retreats every time things get sticky or uncomfortable.
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This year, the air kiss and firm handshake has been replaced as a greeting by a genial grip and squeeze of the upper arm -- replacing any skin-to-skin contact.
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His conversation is wide-ranging and larded with literary references, and his manner is so genial and confiding that at first you do not notice how stubborn he can be.
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The collection offers a comprehensive view of his evolution as a critic — from the "erratic booklust" of his teens to the distinct intellectualism and genial crankiness of his current work.
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Shulkin was speaking to reporters after a largely genial House Veterans Affairs Committee, a day after a VA inspector general report about a trip Shulkin took to Europe last year.
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Sharma, a genial man with a wide smile, has a portrait of Bharat Mata, or Mother India, hanging above the doorway of a meeting room in his bungalow in central Delhi.
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Outside the Anaheim Convention Center where NAMM is taking place, a genial gent calling himself Lordblobbie and wearing heart-shaped sunglasses is playing a thrillingly unique instrument called the Soma Pipe.
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You might know him as the genial front man for heavy heroes the Foo Fighters, or perhaps for his historic stint as the stickman for the generation-defining grunge outfit, Nirvana.
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But they came together with unwarranted coherence thanks to Ex Cathedra's genial conductor, Jeffrey Skidmore, whose idea this project was from the beginning and who calmly steered it through to realization.
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Even the genial Mr. McCartney, in and out of the Beatles, had aggressive songs like "Helter Skelter" and "Live and Let Die," both part of his far-ranging set on Saturday.
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The field is dynamic, diverse, and substantive; each entrant centers a unique set of issues, and both the nominee and the party platform will benefit from the robust but genial rivalries.
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It was hardly a novel experience for a foreign correspondent to encounter political leaders with appalling records of repression and brutality, and find them, often enough, genial, good-humored, even gracious.
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It was Mr. Blunt who "persuaded Brookner to move on to an M.A. in art history," offering "genial and sympathetic tuition" that led to her doctorate on Greuze, The Guardian reported.
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Mr. McGrath, a genial lawyer who has never run for office before, talks about ethics reform, but it is impossible to take him seriously, given the team he is playing for.
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Besides his "Today" perch, Mr. Lauer was a genial co-host of events like the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and the Winter and Summer Olympics, and he conducted countless interviews with celebrities.
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The position, with its genial-sounding name, is an unusual hybrid of counselor, educator and cop, and perhaps no other job better personifies America's shifting ideas about schools, policing and safety.
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Books of The Times There is a notion — best expressed by Harry Lime, the genial psychopath played by Orson Welles in "The Third Man" — that bad times make for good art.
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Peter Sallis, a British actor who brought genial eccentricity to the voice of the cheese-loving Wallace in the "Wallace & Gromit" Claymation stop-motion animated films, died on Friday in London.
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These gods are not so different from the rich people you might know (or be): used to getting their way and genial, even caring, until power and money are at stake.
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And he very shrewdly pairs his master detective with a genial duffer as a sidekick and gives him a dastardly opponent in the fiendish master criminal, "the Napoleon of crime," Prof.
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A genial kid — he's all of 19, and still a virgin — with a friendly manner and an understated sense of humor, Billy is the kind of person everyone seems to like.
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Before lunch, the visiting artist, Gary, gave a lecture with slides while pacing around the room and issuing decreasingly genial instructions to his T.A., a silent, gothic-looking person called Rebecca.
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By 2018, WFP and its labor union allies had long had a warm relationship with the boss of the Queens Democratic machine, a genial Irish American political operator named Joe Crowley.
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Els is one of the more genial players in professional golf, and in the year-and-a-half leading up to the competition, his sociability has rubbed off on his players.
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One of them, the genial Danny Hillis, recalls a time when all users of the new technology could be listed, with their geographical addresses and phone numbers, in a slim directory.
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His genial manner and striking likeness to Etienne - from his portly physique to the trademark flat cap he tended to wear - helped win over many of the UDPS rank and file.
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"I would never oppose a president because I believe in what scripture says about giving honor to authority," the genial 33-year-old entertainer says in a brief interview before his show.
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Where he was once a genial presence and a paragon of fatherly love and affection, in the present his face is blank, his eyes constantly searching his son's face for the truth.
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" He is by nature a genial, humble man, though, so he also threw in some caution, saying "we believe this is a long journey" and "we believe we are just getting started.
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" He is, by nature, a genial and humble man, so he also threw in some caution saying, "We believe this is a long journey" and "We believe we are just getting started.
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In a genial confirmation hearing late last month, the only major concern committee members repeatedly raised was that Coats might be too nice for the job of director of national intelligence (DNI).
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" While Comey and Mueller had a genial professional relationship during their days together at the FBI, Comey testified late last year that he and Mueller are "not friends in any social sense.
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It is no secret that confirmation bias finds a genial home in our eristic thinking about politics, but recent scholarship indicates a problem that's deeper and more dangerous than many have suspected.
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Sure, plenty of local police officers — a majority, even — have more in common with Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), the genial television sheriff of the 1960s than they do with a storm trooper.
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The mood: In a largely genial hearing, several senators said they supported Miller and expected him to be easily confirmed to become the next commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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A genial host, Kalugin gives a guided tour of his sprawling library spread over three rooms and reveals himself to be a man of history, a veritable Zelig of the Cold War.
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He was a genial bear of a man who called everyone by a nickname — Bandito, Diablo, Loco, Feya — and no one, not even the stone-faced Swedish head nurses, could resist him.
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With Zac Efron playing way against genial type as Bundy, the film focuses on his relationship with his girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), who refused to believe the accusations leveled against him.
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"I knew there was a chance of getting injured, but I knew there was a life after injury," the genial and serene Salazar, who is 26, says now in his quick patter.
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Trump had previously weighed in on the feud between Clinton and Gabbard over the weekend, referencing allegations of his own allegiance to Moscow and his genial relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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But he also conceded to the jurors that Mr. Cosby was a flawed man, that his womanizing and drug use had undone his image as a genial comedian and beloved TV father.
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His outspoken support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act had alienated some centrist Republicans and, though Pence was genial enough, he was not the kind of campaigner who got folks fired up.
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Fat Mike, of NOFX , never seemed impressed by the genial antics of Hoppus and DeLonge, who made a mockery of his conviction that punk should be at least a little bit confrontational.
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But their marriage gradually fell apart, and they divorced in the mid-1980s, by which time another man, Tom Willett, a genial jack-of-all-trades, had found his way to Amargosa.
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Even this week's genial subcommittee mark ups, where opening statements were plaudits of bipartisanship, included a couple swipes at Trump from Democrats, telegraphing arguments to come in Wednesday's full committee mark up.
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But Pence's role in the Trump campaign is that of a salesman, not a strategist or close adviser — no one believes Trump is relying on the genial, generic Midwestern conservative for guidance.
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Known for his smooth R&B sound and his genial personality, "the Velvet Teddy Bear," as Studdard became known, has been compared to Vandross ever since he set foot on the Idol stage.
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Pickett remained genial about his success as a one-hit wonder, even as his years out of the spotlight saw a divorce and the death of his 3-year-old son from drowning.
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The two men shared not only a dedication to free enterprise and conservatism but a laid-back, genial manner and a love of horseback riding and the outdoor lifestyle of the American West.
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Howard Tullman, an old friend who collaborated with the genial Mr Pritzker in running 1871, a successful tech-incubator in Chicago, worries voters in rural areas might resent his big-spending, city ways.
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His mother died as he turned 12, an event which left the seven Housman children in the care of their genial but madcap father, and which would gradually lead Housman to reject Christianity.
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Tom, in his genial way, tells her she spends too much time on her phone and not enough time connecting with people, even though she regularly is meeting up with guys at bars.
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So it makes too much sense that he is elevated to press secretary, where he can appropriately deploy his genial sarcasm and still be closely involved in the nation's day-to-day crises.
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In the manner of a genial professor studding a seminar with lively demonstrations, he shows that he can manipulate our laughter as easily as Marcel manipulated the bowler hat earlier in the evening.
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In 2005, Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "a genial film," in which "the boys teach a dorky newcomer not only about baseball but also about vital kid stuff."fathomevents.
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Mr. McCollum, who comes across as the world's most genial repeat offender, is the principal guide to his story, which includes being stabbed in school by a fellow student when he was 12.
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"But then, I said to myself, 'I hope is enough,' " said Mr. Ferretti, a genial neurotic whose list of collaborators includes Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Tim Burton.
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The team's other driver, Daniel Ricciardo, a smiling, genial Australian, showed his frustration after losing two races he should have won — the Spanish Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix, both in May.
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A genial on-air presence who speaks in a light Virginia accent, Mr. Dickerson received praise at "Face the Nation," which he joined in 2015, for his rigorous, and at times academic, approach.
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Hemsworth and Thompson are genial enough people to spend a couple of hours on, but as stars, they take a back seat to the film's array of digital weapons, creatures, environments, battles, and agents.
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Bo Burnham's directorial debut follows the genial but despondent Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she not only navigates middle school's judging adults, preening peers, and hallway hell, but also its social-media-induced social anxiety.
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In many ways, Pruitt is a more concentrated and effective version of Trump: just as tribal, just as paranoid, but with a genial manner, a smiling face, and enough focus to avoid pointless controversies.
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It even attracted a smaller audience than its predecessor, a genial hour that was hosted by Mr. Roker, Dylan Dreyer and Sheinelle Jones and did not depend on the magnetism of a star performer.
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Check-in was less than genial and instead, I was hastily asked for a credit card and photo ID. A staff member then walked us to our room to ensure the keys worked properly.
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Cody Phillips, the extremely genial president of the Baldwin County Common Sense Campaign (the local Tea Party's name), said he thinks Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is behind the attacks on Mr. Moore.
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Mr. Clark was a genial banjo-wielding presence on "Hee Haw" for the show's entire run of more than two decades, serving as an ambassador for country music and the culture that defined it.
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Mr. Beach was also Lumière, the genial candelabra featured in the song "Be Our Guest," in the original Broadway cast of "Beauty and the Beast" in 1994, earning a Tony nomination for the performance.
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A genial sportsman with a graceful style, Gimeno (pronounced hee-MAY-no) came to prominence in the 21972s, using an arsenal of drop shots and lobs that disrupted power players, especially on clay courts.
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Sergeant Tuozzolo, the first New York police officer to be killed in the line of duty since October 2015, was a lifelong fisherman and a genial, low-key presence in the precinct, said Sgt.
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Yet if you want to hear him — and if you love opera, you should — I wouldn't take the bait and rush to this genial but scattered "Barbiere," which opened at the Met on Monday.
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" The novel is full of wondrous things—several genial character portraits, funny and exact depictions of West Berlin (bars, hippie communes, radical tyranny, bourgeois bohemianism), beautiful evocations of Chicago ("I could feel Lake Michigan.
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Mr. Sheeran — in his best mode, this generation's James Taylor, perhaps — can do this because he belongs to no scene, which allows him to dabble in a whole bunch of them, a genial visitor.
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If you've ever hummed along to "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" or another of the new-wave classics Squeeze released between 303 and 1980, you've likely enjoyed Jools Holland's genial piano and keyboard work.
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From 2010-14, Magid led the Islamic Society of North America, whose conferences draw thousands of Muslims each year, and the genial Sudanese-American regularly makes the list of the world's 500 most influential Muslims.
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The leader of this effort, after Satoshi bowed out in 2011 (without ever revealing a real identity), was Mr. Andresen, a genial father of two from central Massachusetts who kept everyone on the same page.
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With Reese Witherspoon as the axis around which a uniformly genial cast revolves, it's just the right palate-cleanser, a bit of cinematic melon sorbet on the tongue before the serious fall movie season begins.
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The characters are relatable without the melodrama of those shows – it turns out that a genial basketball star is every bit as watchable and more so than a vengeful beauty queen or homeless heroin addict.
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Some 3 million people watch "The Late Show," according to ratings data, which has challenged the genial formula of topical jokes, games and celebrity guests seen on NBC rival "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon.
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Generally seen as a friendly club with a modest, affable, disproportionately middle-class fanbase, a trip to Craven Cottage was widely considered to be one of the most genial away days in the top flight.
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Some of them spent months chatting, playing chess, and smoking cigars with a genial old man who bore no resemblance to the vicious dictator of Axis of Evil lore, on trial for crimes against humanity.
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I watched in alarm as W., who had promised a "humble" foreign policy with no nation-building and who had been a bipartisan, genial Texas governor, shape-shifted into a hyperaggressive and belligerently unilateral president.
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Born in 1891 on a farm some 30 miles from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he also seemed to be in pain yet not fully aware of it and maintained a genial veneer that appeared almost childlike.
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It's got broadly genial performances (particularly by Viggo Mortensen), ace comic timing, some good jokes, and a lot of music, mixed in with a heartwarming (if paint-by-numbers) story of two men becoming friends.
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What drives the plot through its genial motions isn't the struggle for freedom or even the pursuit of happiness, but rather the impulse to improve lives that are already fundamentally (and oenophilically) happy and free.
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El delirio ha continuado con Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, de Quentin Tarantino, en la que Pitt interpreta a Cliff Booth, un papel perfecto para él: un doble cinematográfico experimentado y un tipo genial.
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The first half offered a genial but dully messy immersion in the musicians' collective that has sprung up around the Icelandic record label Bedroom Community, founded in 2006 by the composer and producer Valgeir Sigurdsson.
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A genial Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinSunday shows - Recession fears dominate Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Trump vows to 'always uphold the Second Amendment' amid ongoing talks on gun laws MORE (D-W.
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Andrew Scheer, a genial, 38-year-old father of five from the western province of Saskatchewan, spent his 13-year political career under the leadership of Mr Harper, who was prime minister for nearly ten years.
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This genial, rollicking 22-minute short—which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival—stars Philip Burgers as a mute, an on-the-run mystery man who stumbles into one unexpected set-up after the next.
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The report has revived scrutiny of last July's Helsinki summit, at which Trump sparked bipartisan condemnation for his genial attitude toward Putin and unwillingness to challenge him publicly on election interference following the closed-door meeting.
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Ringo Starr's vocal vehicle "Good Night" wound up with a full-blown orchestral score, but the genial stick man's other White Album track, "Don't Pass Me By," very nearly opened with an equally lush symphonic overture.
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The New York channel consists mostly of two genial middle-aged men: Pak Song Il, a husky diplomat with a gray brush cut; and his aide-de-camp, Kwon Jong Gun, who is younger and thinner.
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There is striking fluctuation in his mood and mental state—he shows "lucid moments" (or minutes), and returns to his formal, genial personality, but for most of the time is lost in severe disorientation and agitation.
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He was nearly 30 when he became famous in 1940, when 'New San Antonio Rose' became a genial virus across America, and even then he sang like someone who has seen death in his own clan.
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More than anything, Mr. O'Rourke has made clear that he will not modulate his politics, betting that he can energize and activate nonvoters from past years, particularly younger ones, with left-wing authenticity and genial hustle.
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When the stylist, a genial man whose beard and burly physique gave him the air of a tropical Santa, imparted a gentle wave to her hair, she yelped and winced repeatedly, convinced that she'd been burned.
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Sid O'Nan, a genial and self-effacing father of two teen-agers, who works as an I.T. specialist for the Department of Agriculture, told me that, growing up, he had done some hunting, but not much.
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Most notably, while Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) has the white trash roots and genial folksiness of Bill Clinton, his deeply repressed bisexuality presents the opposite set of problems as those encountered by his real-life forebear.
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But Ms. Bathgate's gesture did not just bring out a composer: It sparked a procession of dark-clothed men in their 30s who ascended the stage and lined up, smiling, behind her like a genial security detail.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif expressed similar genial sentiments in an interview with Amanpour last month, but did not miss an opportunity to mention that 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi citizens.
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BUNDLED up in woolly jumpers and scarves, the mostly grey-haired crowd filed into the civic centre in Schauenburg, a small central German town, toasted the new year with foaming glasses of beer and exchanged genial gossip.
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The play starts with a sly twist on the mordant opening exchange between Dev (Joe Paulik), here a genial tutor and the stand-in for Medvedenko, and Mash (Joey Parsons), formerly Masha, here a part-time cook.
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Yes, the weed smoke, flowing beards, splashes of psychedelic color, and genial crusties lolling about the front of the venue all play their part in creating that overall Roadburn vibe, but really, it comes down to attitude.
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I had a breakfast-time appointment with the company spokesman, a genial Anglo-Indian named Pearson Surita, a man possessed of an accent so plummy that on the side he did cricket commentaries for All-India Radio.
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A gentle, genial dip into a pool of midlife despair, Gilles Lellouche's body-positive comedy, "Sink or Swim," follows a small group of variously troubled men who find purpose in forming an all-male synchronized swimming team.
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Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) "Earning a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court requires much more than a genial demeanor and an ability to artfully dodge even the most pointed of questions," Duckworth said in a March 30 statement.
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One summer evening at MIMI, a tiny bistro on a sleepy West Village block, Daniel Bennett, a genial co-owner, told a couple of women lingering over their speculoos soufflé how he came to hire the chef.
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Opening with the show's familiar song, the genial Hanks-as-Rogers opens the front door to his "house" set, singing his signature "Won't You Be My Neighbor" song — the show's de facto theme — and performing his ritual.
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I'm curious to see just how genial the exchanges between two men will be (my guess is not very) — and how Mr. Bush will perform now that the blustery billionaire is back onstage after skipping the last debate.
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Prosecutors said it was Mr. Cosby, now 80, who was the manipulator, a man who hid behind a genial image, they said, while using drugs to incapacitate and assault not just Ms. Constand, but other women as well.
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When appearing together at public and at events, Esper and Milley are often genial, trading good-natured barbs regarding their Ivy League alma mater -- Esper received a master's degree from Harvard while Milley earned his bachelor's at Princeton.
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Bonnie (a forceful Jamie Petrone) arrives in a flurry of apology, having been unable to get to Idaho in time for the funeral, along with her boyfriend, Greg (John McGinty, nicely playing the genial outsider in the group).
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North Korea bubbles up sporadically, garnering particular attention whenever the president decides he wants another genial confab with Kim Jong Un, and even then exists mostly as a platform to joke about Trump's inability to close a deal.
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After the cathartic nakedness of "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" which literally took on matters of life and death, "Going Into Town," which began life as a city guide for her daughter, feels genial but slight.
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He's a twinkly eyed, avuncular guy, with a record of achievement that belies his genial affect, including service as a recon Marine — their inside joke is that they're the ones who show up when the SEALS dial 911.
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Over a hot pot of tea, Mr. Parr, who is genial and grandfatherly, with a big, warm laugh and mischievous sense of humor when talking about his punishing performance work, described what drew him to his voluntary internment.
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Michael Bond, the genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children's novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died on Tuesday at his home in London.
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Although some may find that Basha's genial acceptance of her lot is romanticized, she frankly boasts that she has freedoms, even living as she does, that would be denied her in the hidebound community where she grew up.
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Prince Edmond de Polignac had unrealised musical ambitions, and had spent many years, at the insistence of his family, touring Europe in a genial, halfhearted, theoretical search for a wife; somehow, he—more than she—always evaded capture.
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From string-topped smooth soul ("Moonlight, Mistletoe & You," joined by Gerald Albright on saxophone) to rootsy moments (the country-blues singer Charley Jordan's "Santa Claus Blues"), Keb' Mo' stays genial and optimistic, insisting on an angst-free holiday.
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"I fell into a good situation in Houston where I was a main catalyst for the second unit," new Clippers forward Sam Dekker told VICE Sports, right as Jordan strode by flashing a genial middle finger in our direction.
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A tall, genial, easy-going man, he is sometimes approached by legal firms who want him to appear in court to state definitively whether their client is or isn't in chronic pain (and therefore justified in claiming absentee benefit).
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's moderate Islamists are hoping the genial Beethoven fan they have nominated to run in next month's presidential elections will break the mould in the Arab world by turning success at the ballot box into uncontested rule.
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"I'm SHY," sings Ms. Hoffman, in the number that introduces her (it's called "Shy") in the Transport Group's genial, patchy revival of the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress," which opened on Sunday night at the Abrons Arts Center.
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Jason Wingreen, a character actor best known for playing the genial bartender Harry on the hit sitcom "All in the Family" and for voicing the bounty hunter Boba Fett in the film "The Empire Strikes Back," died on Dec.
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WASHINGTON — To outward appearances, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey enjoyed a genial visit to the White House on Wednesday, where he and President Trump exchanged compliments and resolved to work out multiple policy disputes between Washington and Ankara.
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PARIS — A day or so before the French Open began and the rain started to fall, Novak Djokovic shot a series of short, amusing commercials with Gustavo Kuerten, the genial, mop-topped, three-time French Open champion from Brazil.
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She gets by on sign language (clarified by yellow subtitles), a genial courtesy, and a habitual rhythm to her life: a bath, a shoeshine, a bus trip, and a hard night's toil as a cleaner at a scientific facility.
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Sporting a gray hooded sweatshirt with his organization's logo embroidered on the chest, a red baseball cap, and a bushy, faded blond beard, Byrd seemed genial enough, even if you take issue with his reading of the Civil War.
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We follow Andrei as he learns to navigate the Moscow subway, searches for Wi-Fi, joins pickup hockey games, is dragged to nightclubs and ultimately falls in with a crowd of bookish and genial subversives and would-be socialists.
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My teacher was a genial man with white hair and an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical, from the lives of composers to exactly how many versions of a Chopin nocturne were found in his desk after he died.
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"We had to call the police twice in the last three months and forcibly take him into a clinic to adjust his medications," said his older brother, Dick, a genial former computer consultant who also manages Mr. Johnston's career.
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" JON PARELES With bluesy distorted guitar chords, a hint of Latin rhythm and perhaps a distant echo of the Zombies' "Time of the Season," Son Little offers a genial come-on in "Hey Rose" from his new EP, "Invisible.
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When its owner, a genial man named Marvin Carias, who used to live in Southern California, showed me around, he led me to two big classrooms on the first floor, called the Staples Center and the World Trade Center.
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The lead defense attorney, Brian J. McMonagle, acknowledged that revelations of Mr. Cosby's womanizing, depictions of him as a philanderer who plied women with charm and drugs, have overtaken his image as a genial comedian and beloved TV dad.
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"Landline," a fairly genial, diffident comedy about diffident, fairly generic people, plants its flag in 1995 and surveys a landscape of indie rock, "Must See TV" and the high-waisted bluejeans that have recently started coming back into fashion.
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Reed, 29, earned the nickname Captain America because of his success in team-play events like the Ryder Cup and this week's biennial competition, a typically genial affair pitting the top United States players against those from outside Europe.
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As savvy Twitter-searchers noticed then, the more aggressive, shoot-from-the-hip tweets tended to come from an Android device, while the more polished, genial ones were most likely posted by someone on his campaign from an iPhone.
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But his PR team has sought to maximize their reach, as part of an all-consuming effort to cement Zuckerberg as the human face of the company in the hopes that his calm, genial presence will earn goodwill for the company.
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (Reuters) - Bernhard Langer has been there, seen it, done that and worn the tee-shirt during an illustrious 46-year career but the opening round of the British Open certainly represented a rare experience for the genial German.
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THE man who has done more than anyone to create an air of apprehension around Italy's coming election is a genial fellow with a round face, a broad nose and silvery hair combed forward in the style of the ancient Romans.
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As President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump took their places in the first row of the cathedral, they were greeted with light smiles and handshakes from Barack and Michelle Obama, a genial greeting in an otherwise frosty relationship.
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In a friendly confirmation hearing for one of the Senate's more genial former members, the only major concern Senate Intelligence Committee members repeatedly raised was that Coats might be too nice for the job as director of national intelligence (DNI).
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The crew who regularly gather in the bar over the course of 17 years — from 1994 to 2011 — may seem an oddly assorted bunch, but as we come to know them, their easygoing, genial interaction and interdependence come to seem natural.
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Among those waiting in the earth-floored, dung-scented arena to greet the bull-riders on July 3rd is Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a wiry, genial Republican who as an orthopaedic surgeon spent years patching up rodeo-battered cowboys.
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As it was, there was a smattering of jeers from the blue-shirted home fans before kickoff when the traveling supporters, some of whom wore black ribbons on their gold Australia shirts, started a chant, but generally the atmosphere was genial.
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TAPACHULA, México — El bar de barrio de moda en el sur de México —o al menos el más genial fundado por migrantes de Camerún— estaba escondido en un barrio mayormente residencial de Tapachula, una ciudad cercana a la frontera de Guatemala.
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Roberts, the product of a comfortable middle-class upbringing in Indiana where he attended Catholic schools, has a genial demeanor on the bench and avoids the hard-edge writing in opinions that some justices on the right and left occasionally employ.
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The writer who emerges from these pages is so humble as to be self-effacing — a quality that makes his halting bids at introspection, for all their genial appeal, seem mostly denuded of the drama that normally fuels Caro's work.
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But he hadn't considered using neon himself for his text-based work until Matt Dilling, the genial bearded fellow whom he knew only as a neighbor in the space below Ligon's studio in Gowanus, invited him for a tour in 2005.
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Cobb, 42, a genial, bearlike, bearded father of seven, stayed up late the night before the hearing, rehearsing his performance in the mirror of his hotel room, cutting it in half to make sure it stayed within the strict time limit.
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More intangibly, Iger's smooth demeanor and genial manner have made him a strong public representative of the company, one where the Disney name was historically associated with its founder, Walt Disney, who hosted a weekly TV program during its formative years.
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And it's a big deal for Bong, who's been a genial presence on the awards circuit, gently poking fun at the "1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles" and continuing to carve out space for "foreign" films on the Oscar stage.
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WINTER'S EVE AT LINCOLN SQUARE (Monday) In "A Christmas Carol," Scrooge's spiritual opposite was Fezziwig, his genial boss of long ago who knew when to put aside workaday concerns, throw open his doors and invite everyone to a grand party.
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Parton granted Abumrad quite a few sit-down interviews, and although seasoned Parton fans will find little of what she tells him to be new information, "Dolly Parton's America" is a genial, compulsively listenable crash course in Parton's lasting appeal.
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Staggering off the boat at Marlow at the end of the day, I thought of Reilly's rapt face as he held the swan, the genial conviviality of the uppers, the sun-splashed slipway at Cookham and then Stanley Spencer again.
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After a combative round of telephone diplomacy with even the staunchest US allies, the commander in chief is planning a more genial approach this week when he decamps with Japan's Prime Minister to his winter getaway in Florida for a round of golf.
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His guide is Clive Oppenheimer, a genial, passionate scientist whom he met while filming in Antarctica, and who guides him around 6 active volcanoes, including into an active danger zone in Indonesia, where they keep their eyes on the cone at all times.
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So it was lucky for me when a fire alarm went off deep into Sunday's matinee of "Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life," sending all of us — including Mr. Hines, genial even as he was swarmed by smartphone-wielding fans — onto the street.
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Mr. Minhaj is Indian-American and Muslim, two demographics not heard from nearly often enough in American theater, and he has a genial stage presence that makes you glad to be in his company and eager to hear what he has to say.
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Despite the rigors of heavy touring and the fact that he's already put in a full day of work, Windstein is as genial and chatty as ever, and is game to talk about everything from religion to riffs to his drinking habits.
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Season 5: We haven't been to the Twins since Season 3, though the (actually quite genial-seeming) Walda Frey's presence in Winterfell served to remind us that should the Boltons lose their custodianship of the North, the otherwise friendless Freys will be vulnerable.
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David Gergen, the genial centrist wiseman whose has served as high counsellor to presidents of both parties, argued on CNN on Monday night that the recent surge of anti-Trump protests was disruptive than the political protests of the 21968s and 2400s.
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The event was interspersed with commentary by the tenor Ben Heppner (who retired from the opera stage in 2014 and acted as master of ceremonies here) and genial interactions between the pianists Ken Noda and Craig Rutenberg, who accompanied the singers with finesse.
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It causes me some shame, now, to look back on those years; I think I resisted Mr. Gilbert's performances, his presence — genial, bookish and curious, and utterly without glamour — because they didn't meet my sense of what a conductor was supposed to be.
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In her genial welcome to the performance, which is also signed for the deaf and "relaxed" for those on the autism spectrum, Thom says that in working on the play she came to feel that Beckett was writing about a woman like herself.
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Monica Piper is a genial guide to her own life in "Not That Jewish," a one-woman show at New World Stages that ranges far and wide — too far and wide, perhaps — but keeps the theme of the title always within sight.
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Su proyecto se sitúa en la zona más comercial del mismo laboratorio iconoclasta y genial donde crean el Niño de Elche, cuyo álbum más reciente se titula Colombiana y explora los diálogos entre el flamenco y los géneros musicales de América Latina.
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The first half of the program was a kind of joke on this point: Berg wrote his noirish Piano Sonata when he was in his early 20s, and Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was 30 in 1937, when he wrote his genial Sonatina No. 3.
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In that concerto, they offered as good a big-symphony Mozart as you could ask for: both full and crisp, with Emanuel Ax a soloist genial and fond, never coy, ironic or glib, his own cadenzas pressing the themes down darkening chromatic avenues.
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Mr. Carr, 59, is genial, driven and unerringly gregarious, a kind of L. pictus in a baseball cap, always looking for new connections, new ideas for helping the park and its people, new ways to win over skeptics and bridge political divides.
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Por lo menos, esa es la consigna —en mi opinión, genial— de Books & Brews, una librería en Indianápolis que ofrece cervezas artesanales como "Viaje al centro de la barrica" o "Crema y castigo" para conversar con una pinta al lado de sus estantes.
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Prince is a genial, Ivy League–educated Bay Area resident who once sat in on lectures by a law professor named Barack Obama—the type of person you would expect to have a vivid impression of being denounced by a prominent civil rights organization.
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Mr. Wallace may have begun his career as a New Deal Democrat, but the way he appealed to these predominantly Democratic voters by channeling their frustrations against the federal government did much to pave the way for Ronald Reagan's more genial anti-government ideology.
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"El humor es inexpresivo y decididamente extraño", escribió Janet Maslin con motivo del lanzamiento tardío de la película en cines estadounidenses, y agregó que "el filme habita un mundo genial y de una fantasía ligeramente distorsionada que tiene sus propias reglas excéntricas del decoro".
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Glass was also the voice of Randy Carmichael, the genial neighbor and father of four children in the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series "Rugrats" and its spinoff, "All Grown Up." He also made appearances in such shows as "Friends," ''Star Trek: Voyager" and "Designing Women.
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"I DIDN'T even come out of the closet as a Democrat until the primary," says Molly Clark, a genial retired Presbyterian minister working to get out the vote for Doug Jones (pictured left), the Democrat in Alabama running for a Senate seat on December 12th.
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Maxfield, a manic truck-builder, had loaded up his custom six-door Excursion and brought Jon Pratt, a tall, dark, and laconic former saddle-bronc rider whom Bundy respected a great deal, and Todd MacFarlane, a genial country lawyer who represented the Finicum family.
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Arriving at the house, neither of us are sure what to expect, but certainly couldn't have predicted the genial calmness of it all, as we're welcomed into his family's home, the floor littered with laundry baskets and crayons, and offered a cup of tea.
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Greenberger's short new book has a good deal of bounce and some genial, colorful overwriting ("The putrid carcasses kept bobbing to the surface"), but its author can seem nearly as dependent on his more definitive predecessor, Thomas C. Reeves, as Arthur was on Conkling.
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No. (Andy Webster) ★ 'Maggie's Plan' (R, 1:38) Rebecca Miller's new film is a sharp, genial comedy about Maggie, a young New Yorker (Greta Gerwig) who falls in love and starts a family with an older man (Ethan Hawke), after which things get complicated.
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In middle- or upper-middle-income suburban settings, educators are likely to appear as lazy fools, petty tyrants or, at best, genial sidekicks offering an occasional word of wisdom (think Paul Gleason in "Breakfast Club," Jane Lynch in "Glee" or Ken Jeong in "The Duff").
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A wry and genial subject, with a wispy crop of white hair, Mr. Sakamoto shares memories of composing music for Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" and is shown writing the score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "The Revenant," an assignment he accepted while battling throat cancer.
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We also know that despite his usually genial demeanor, the chief justice is an isolated figure, scorned on the right as a traitor for having saved the Affordable Care Act and mistrusted on the left for having eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, among other decisions.
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He and his colleagues are hoping to examine those issues in future studies and also zero in on the best types and amounts of exercise to help us maintain our memories of that genial Beatles drummer and all the other touchstones of our pasts.
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If he runs, Mr. Prince would face formidable obstacles in seeking to unseat Mr. Barrasso, a popular and genial but low-profile senator who will have the full backing of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and the well-funded political committees loyal to him.
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That's transgressive and she knows it, and so is her four decades of closeness to the mayor — a relationship so tight, and so unconventional, that gossips assume it's sexual: that the children she has with her genial husband, Peter (Peter Scolari), are actually the mayor's.
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WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the nominee for secretary of housing and urban development, presented himself on Thursday as a credible manager for a sprawling federal bureaucracy, navigating an unlikely transition from celebrated neurosurgeon and genial conservative presidential candidate to the steward of American housing policy.
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Robert H. Michel, who became the longest-serving Republican leader in the history of the House of Representatives while earning a reputation as a genial conciliator who worked with Democrats to get major legislation passed, died on Friday in Arlington, Va. He was 93.
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His manager on a High-A team in Winston-Salem, N.C., a genial former catcher named Tommy Thompson — gut, silver hair, ever-present bat in his callused hands, the movie version of a coach — was one of the first to spot his leadership potential.
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As Stuart Issacoff argues in his new book, "When the World Stopped to Listen," the young Texan virtuoso's combination of profound musicality and genial manners softened Soviet hearts, briefly suspended us-versus-them animosity against the West, and may have sowed the seeds for perestroika.
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White House records and other collections at the libraries have, for example, overturned the idea of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a genial, golf-playing figurehead, and revealed the depth of internal debate in Lyndon B. Johnson's White House over the escalation of the Vietnam War.
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And "Walt Whitman," the genial, white-bearded representative of democracy, processor of multifarious experience, lover of men and women alike, would become the brand under which the endlessly accreting Leaves of Grass (seven separate editions, in numerous states, before the poet's death in 1892) marketed itself.
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Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for telling language ("I'd rather see my daughter in a coffin than at the polls," declares one Anti, while a newspaper headline about a pretty, young Suff reads "110 Pounds of Femininity to Hit Legislators for Vote").
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As the French President Emmanuel Macron, who maintains one of the most genial personal relationships with Trump of any world leader, made clear soon after Trump's news conference, NATO allies did nothing more than recommit themselves to the previously agreed 2% of GDP defense spending by 2024.
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" When he spoke at a 2014 alec meeting, he looked genial as he stood at the lectern and peered over his reading glasses, but his rhetoric was martial: thanks to Obama Administration regulations, Pruitt told the audience, Americans were "in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - John Williams, the genial president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a top monetary economist, was promoted on Tuesday to head the New York Fed in a politically explosive decision that has been criticized for ignoring more diverse candidates.
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A bit later, descendants of those same cave-dwellers — a band of genial, not-too-bright hunter-gatherers in a verdant valley near what is now Manchester, England — coexisted uneasily with a more aggressive and arrogant breed of humans, who mastered metallurgy, stadium-building and sports commentary.
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One of the show's two hosts, the genial comedian Nam Hee-seok, stood behind a police barricade with 19363-year-old Shin Eun-ha, perhaps the most well known of the South Korean variety show's recurring personalities, waiting for the arrival of Kim in an armored limousine.
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For a while he had the national spotlight, a 58-year-old maverick whose white hair, horn-rimmed glasses and clearheaded presentation gave him the air of a genial professor who was not so much above the fray as he was unwilling to play by its rules.
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The restaurant Union Full Board makes a genial partner to the hotel, serving Detroit-style pizza, which is fluffy and square, along with generous salads, small plates and daily specials in a cozy room, featuring exposed brick walls, wood beams and televisions tuned to the Cubs.
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Critic's Notebook Early in the night at the 34th annual MTV Video Music Awards, the genial pop singer Ed Sheeran was in the middle of a sober performance of "Shape of You" when, quite jarringly, the impish rapper Lil Uzi Vert crept onstage and joined in.
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Indeed, while Kimmel might have become a more polarizing figure with his entry into the healthcare and gun-control debates, he again brought a genial persona to the emcee role, one that somewhat leavened the seriousness and bouts of pretentiousness that can drip into the ceremony.
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Except for the middle years of her life, when she lived in New York City, where she wrote "Mockingbird," southern Alabama was home for Harper Lee, and she wrote in it of the area's culture of tea cakes, genial manners and racial segregation in the post-Depression era.
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Mr Jones, a first-time candidate, has a genial, understated demeanour and an enviable CV. Born to a blue-collar family, he became a federal prosecutor, and in the early 2000s successfully convicted two Klansmen for killing four young girls in an infamous church bombing nearly 40 years earlier.
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It's especially nice to see Ted Danson back in an NBC Thursday-night comedy (after a premiere that follows "The Voice"), playing the bowtie-wearing administrator and genial guide who cheerfully explains the ground rules, which include the fact that any curse words are, conveniently, automatically cleaned up.
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The continued fascination with a silver-bullet solution to the Trump presidency stands in stark contrast to the Bush years, when American liberals made books making fun of a guy we all generally thought of as a genial dumbass who happened to be the worst president in history.
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The director Jon S. Baird's observant and genial portrait includes many scenes where these master comics are performing, but the primary purpose doesn't appear to be to convince you of their comic genius, but rather to display their ease with each other, the charge and excitement of a connection.
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" For his efforts, Mr. Amash, who is regarded by fellow lawmakers as friendly but a bit intense, received a genial pat on the head from Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, a fellow Michigan native and Trump skeptic who said Mr. Amash was misguided about impeachment but personally "courageous.
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In the more than two decades since Hughes—who was originally from Joplin, Missouri—had decided to make his home in Harlem, he had opened his doors to fledgling writers, painters, performers, and the like, who came looking for his genial counsel about their work and their lives.
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King, known as one of the Senate's more genial members, reached a breaking point more than an hour into the hearing after Michael Rogers repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether President Trump tried to interfere in the FBI's investigation into Russia's actions and possible collusion with his campaign.
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Whatever the outcome, the events leading up to the trial smashed the image Mr. Cosby had built over more than half a century in show business, as a genial comedian, the upstanding paterfamilias in the wildly popular 1980s and '90s sitcom "The Cosby Show," and a moralizing public figure.
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Mr. Morris, a genial son of British parents, and Mr. Brooks, a boisterous comedy director from Brooklyn, had worked on two short-lived Broadway musicals ("Shinbone Alley," in 21994, and "All-American," in 22009), when Mr. Brooks asked him to write the film score for "The Producers" (123).
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NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - John Williams, the genial president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a top monetary economist, was promoted on Tuesday to head the New York Fed in a politically explosive decision likely to ramp up criticism that the bank ignored more diverse candidates.
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Bun B, Sean, and Austin One of the most genial artists in rap, Bun B performed as a special guest with Parquet Courts on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on a song called "Captive of the Sun," written by Austin Brown who is the tall one with light, brown hair.
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The two men maintained a genial pose for the cameras, though he bristled when Barnier dismissed as "impossible" some of Britain's demands to benefit from the EU single market without accepting EU legal authority and said he thought Britons were "nostalgic" for the open market in Europe they had helped build.
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He was hired to work at Microsoft as soon as he graduated from Stanford, where he studied computer science, and became part of Rich Barton's circle of frequent collaborators, a genial group that reminded me of the all-male crew of actors who regularly work with the movie director Judd Apatow.
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To judge from the genial, disarming tone of his memoir, "A Life in Parts" (new at No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list), that journeyman experience has given him the perspective to stay humble in the face of fame — or at least to maintain a sense of humor about it.
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Florida's 963th Congressional District, a densely populated slice of coast that includes the affluent communities of Miami Beach, Key Biscayne and Coral Gables, has been represented since 1989 by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 66, a foreign-policy hawk, gay-rights proponent and genial personality known to her constituents simply as Ileana.
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That he's meant to occupy a Mr. Rogers-like space in the pop culture of Kidding's world is clear from the moment he appears onscreen, clad in a sweater vest and a genial smile, and briefly seen delivering a speech to the US Senate, just as Fred Rogers once did.
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Taylor's trusted underling Mafee (Dan Soder), the genial man-child who quit Axe Cap last season when he realized he'd been manipulated by Axe and Wendy, refuses to extend a similar lifeline to his buddy Rudy (Chris Carfizzi), whom Axe fired last week for fraternizing with the enemy — namely, Mafee.
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In his book "Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey Through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine" (Abrams Press, $26), Mr. Wilson leads us on a genial excursion to some of the world's more esoteric wine neighborhoods, while examining his own indirect journey toward wine writing and these underdog varieties.
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It also introduces Dennis Quaid into the cast as Michael Lennox, a genial fisherman intent on doing whatever it takes to find a cure for his terminally ill wife (Michelle Fairley) — and more unnameable dread than ever as this town on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway hurtles toward environmental catastrophe.
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Sometimes it seems that we can tolerate good women only just as long as they serve us well as towering cake-makers, genial skivvies, languidly biddable Muses, cheeky waitresses, or useful behind-the-arras funders of art movements in the cultural vanguard, steered authoritatively and confidently into the future by men.
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The atmosphere at Taring Padi House, the collective's clubhouse, for a lack of a better word — the concept of a "headquarters" was anathema — was one of genial anarchy, like that at American hippie communes in the 1960s, such as the Merry Pranksters commune and the Hog Farm (though without the drugs).
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Kuchar's apology came at the end of a trying week for him, and after a challenging first round on Friday at the Riviera Country Club, where he heard the usual genial chants of "Kooooch" from some of his fans but also a number of barbs from others about his perceived parsimony.
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Despite their rather genial manner, they've also surrounded themselves with some pretty jaw-dropping associations: touring with Nirvana at the height of Nevermind's world supremacy, partying during the Creation Records wild years with Alan McGee, Primal Scream, and Oasis, and recording a track with De La Soul for the groundbreaking Judgment Night soundtrack.
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With a genial, peppy score by Will Aronson and a clever book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond, the show follows Pete's adventures after he's forced to give up a gig in Paris and learn how to be a house pet with the Biddle family — not an appealing prospect for a party animal.
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Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Ardern are attractive because they still practice a brand of genial, inclusive liberalism, the so-called "third way" that ruled Western democratic politics for the better part of the past 25 years, and in doing so, they nod to the familiarity and safety of our own political past.
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Monty Hall, the genial host and co-creator of "Let's Make a Deal," the game show on which contestants in outlandish costumes shriek and leap at the chance to see if they will win the big prize or the booby prize behind door No. 22013, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Only Mr. Kushner and a few others knew that Mr. Inch, a genial former military police commander appointed to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons and its more than 180,000 inmates just nine months ago, had two days earlier submitted his resignation as the bureau's director to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
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He then lost to a resurgent Novak Djokovic in the final of the ATP Masters 20193 in Cincinnati before feeling the heat and losing on a steamy and still New York night against Millman, a genial Australian veteran who had never been past the third round of a major in 14 previous appearances.
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And for just about everyone who listened to him over the course of a remarkably long career, he was that smart, joyful, genial voice who loved what he was doing, who worked hard to appear that he wasn't working hard, who made you feel that there was a friend behind the microphone.
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" (Glass has hinted that a tribute to Bowie would certainly be appropriate at this year's show.) But if Bowie was remarkably genial ("wasn't hard to talk to, but came better prepared than anybody else," Glass says), Lou Reed played the part one might expect from a progenitor of punk and author of "Metal Machine Music.
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Chris O'Dowd, who shows up as a fellow recent dumpee who Jessica gets tentatively involved with, is his usual schlubbily genial presence, but his thirtysomething divorcé Boone often feels like he's drawing focus in a film that's really less a romance than it is a winsome snapshot of a struggling 25-year-old Brooklynite.
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" There is also George Noory, the genial mustachioed host of the late-night radio show "Coast to Coast AM;" Linda Moulton Howe, who once made a documentary suggesting that flesh wounds on some Alabama cattle were alien markings; Nick Pope, an ex-British Ministry of Defense official; and William Henry, a groovy "investigative mythologist.
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But a soulful, genial mechanic named Blue (played by Brinsley Forde, a guitarist in the British reggae outfit Aswad) provides the film's spine: his rocky home life, love life and career prospects (he doesn't keep his repair job for long; he dallies with a couple of thugs who lure then rob a gay white man).
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Contrary to Biden's cheery anecdotes of Senate collaboration with former segregationists, legislative compromise comes from genial backslaps and warm hugs less often than a campaigning candidate would like to admit; more often it has emerged from one dominant party slamming through its preferred agenda, and the other grinding it into a more acceptable shape.
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NEIL GENZLINGER 'Superstore' (NBC) The genial "Superstore," about misfits who work at a Walmart-like establishment, is hardly the most daring or topical comedy on television, but the episode it broadcast five days before the November election somehow captured the bizarreness of the 2016 campaign better than many of television's most earnest offerings did.
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Yet, in 10 novels written by the British journalist Martin Walker, Bruno's real enemies have not been the conventional wrongdoers so much as the high-minded bureaucrats who threaten a way of life that for centuries has made this corner of France one of the more pleasant, genial places on earth to call home.
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" Curiosity drove her to take on the role of the genial dance hall girl Charity Hope Valentine in the movie version of "Sweet Charity," and it prompted her to drop any remnant of personal vanity as Aurora Greenway, the blowzy Southern belle and uptight helicopter-mom to Debra Winger's rebellious character in "Terms of Endearment.
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The interplay of instruments and voice (all members of the Metropolis Ensemble) in four movements of the seminal cantata "Le marteau sans maître" evoked the conversations, understandings and genial disagreements of a better society: In the eighth section, the flute line (Emi Ferguson, who stood out in an excellent group) winds through an exotic yet friendly thicket of percussion.
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Representatives from companies like Amazon and Facebook feted the South Dakota senator, providing evidence that Thune, a genial and lanky Republican from a Plains state not known for its links to the tech industry, has made himself into an indispensable player in debates over the future of technology policy and its ripple effects around the economy.
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Melillo on Wednesday said the sticking point at the time was that BAM's theaters couldn't accommodate the work's physical requirements.) In a recent conversation (in French) in his hotel not far from Federal Hall, the genial Mr. Castellucci, speaking with deliberate precision, touched upon his love for American literature and his plans with a certain star.
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That's why John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, a genial Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter (who came across as tight and testy), the relaxed and amiable Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush beat the policy-wonk-sounding Al Gore, and why in this year's first presidential debate Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
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In interviews this week with several Iowa lawyers and politicians who know Mr. Whitaker, an image emerged of a respected, competent and sharply conservative lawyer with two distinct personas: a relentless and occasionally abrasive lawyer who fought for his clients and a genial politician who personified "Iowa nice" and could make an instant connection with a stranger.
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Mr. Mendes, the genial 289-year-old pop singer who got his start on Vine, easily scored his third straight No. 25 album on the Billboard chart this week with his self-titled third LP, topping the first-week results for ASAP Rocky and Pusha-T, whose back-and-forth with Drake generated plenty of chatter.
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"They are a really good, young bunch of talented guys that are coming through, and it's sort of nice they don't have a lot of baggage from previous events to have to worry about," said Ashby, the genial Australian wing trimmer who is the only member of the 2013 crew who is still part of the sailing team.
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His genial hustling had earned him minor celebrity upstate: Scavino frequently dropped in on the studio of the K104.7 "Woodman in the Morning" radio show, and as a philanthropically minded Catholic, he could be counted on to judge a charity cupcake contest and to walk the runway in a "Best Legs in the Hudson Valley" competition.
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He is one of TV's archetypal father figures: the way he flashes mild disappointment when contestants miss easy questions; the way he pronounces French words with the savor of someone tasting fine wine; the way he chats with contestants, at scheduled intervals, like a father standing on the porch with a prom date — dutiful, genial, stilted.
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It turns out, for example, that the supposedly genial gentleman may have had financial motives (including gambling debts) for his well-to-do wife's death, and that he had attended meetings of the Hemlock Society, a national right-to-die group that often discusses methods of suicide: methods that Weinstein may have found useful in covering his crime.
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Sinisa Kukic's camera is gentle and unobtrusive (he and Herbert moved to Huntsville for the duration), quietly watching as Jailen, fine-boned and wide-eyed, is accused by the police of public urination; the genial Jaquan is pulled over for a dimming taillight; and Jamario battles anxiety over the pressure to graduate and provide for his pregnant girlfriend.
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One of those things got considerably more press than the others: while the credits began to roll, a time in which SNL actors and guests generally embrace, high-five, and engage in genial small talk, West decided instead to break into a third song, "Ghost Town," and give a speech in which he doubled down on his controversial support for President Donald Trump.
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A much more palatable version of the union-of-opposites story occurs when Perkins goes to visit Hemingway in Key West, played by a genial and perfectly cast Dominic West, who helps his tweed-suited editor haul a gigantic tarpon onto the dock and display it for the camera, underlining that it's Perkins who is the fish out of water.
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Just as the 2016 vote ruptured the progressive momentum of the Obama era, the 843 election signaled a departure from the idealism of the Carter administration, which was driven by the primacy of human rights, toward an ethos of me-first opportunism sanctioned by a genial television personality-turned-corporate mouthpiece-turned-reactionary politician (albeit one with eight years of governing experience).
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Esta función es genial, pero si sospechas que puedes ser objeto de vigilancia gubernamental, recuerda que Apple se ajusta a lo que estipula la ley y cederá tus datos al Gobierno si este lo exigiera: "Para tu comodidad, los mensajes SMS y de iMessage se guardan en una copia de seguridad de iCloud", señala la página de privacidad de Apple.
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The latest example of the Trump effect is in the GOP race for Florida governor: Only last month, Adam Putnam — "Florida's agriculture commissioner and a genial conservative tabbed for political stardom since he won a state house seat at 22 — was ahead of Representative Ron DeSantis in fund-raising, local endorsements and opinion polls," the N.Y. Times' Jonathan Martin reports.
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Lord was genial but unyielding in his defense of Trump, and he became one of the season's most unlikely new television stars: he is sixty-five and lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, where he takes care of his mother, who is ninety-seven; every weekday, CNN sends a car to drive him nearly two hundred miles to Manhattan, and back again.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's choice to be secretary of Homeland Security went on record as holding views counter to Trump in a number of areas at a largely genial Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.
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And if it is good, indeed, to have the genial Southerner around again, that has less to do with the largely generic designs he presented in a collection inspired, he said, by the Beats (though some elements were more reminiscent of the stuff he used to design for the golfer Greg Norman) than because of his steady and grounding presence in a sometimes shaky industry.
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" At rallies and town hall-style gatherings over the last several weeks, he has appeared livelier and more genial, and has even cracked the occasional one-liner to make light of his condition; during a rally with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Iowa, last week, he joked that some people thought the two of them made an "odd couple" because "she is so old and I am so young.
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Two friends and partners are in love with the same girl, there's a big fire, one of the young men is shot by the girl's father, there's the Mexican-American War of 1846, there's a genial old "negro" and a robust older woman full of wisdom—in other words, there's plot, plot, plot, although Tarkington, a passionate admirer of Howells and Henry James, has already grasped that plot is not the road to distinguished fiction.
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Zuckerberg seemed more or less genial about the whole thing when questioned ("Every single fleece and shirt I had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own," he told an interviewer), but he was also very clear that in contrast to the film's impression of him as a lovelorn, socially awkward bachelor, he'd been dating the same woman since he started Facebook during his undergrad years at Harvard.
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That's a reflection of Steele himself, a genial man who grew up in Cleveland as the son of Marine Corps sergeant, who began toying with power rankings while still in elementary school, who bought a print shop in 1984 with money from a second mortgage his parents took out and slept for several years on a couch in that same print shop, and who lost money for seven years before putting out his first magazine in 1995.
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His double shot of "earned media" from the NPI conference called to mind how the Trump campaign, back on August 31, confounded the press by conducting a genial photo-op for the candidate in Mexico City in a joint appearance with Enrique Peña Nieto, president of the country Trump had promised to wall off—only to see the candidate turn around and hold a rally in Phoenix later that evening filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric and tropes.
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We're left with one coach, Villanova's Jay Wright, who has often been dismissed as a lightweight dandy in sharp suit but is now regarded as both one of the most genial and brightest people in the sport; and another coach, North Carolina's Roy Williams, who has also often been overlooked as a guy with more of an ability to attract elite talent than piece it together and who is now on the verge of a third national championship.
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In a genial joint press appearance with ranking member Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 28500 breach New intel chief inherits host of challenges Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (D-Va.), Burr offered only a handful of other details about the committee's ongoing investigation.
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And Tuesday evening brought the New York premiere of a sonata for cello and piano — you guessed it, leftie — by the polymathic pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough, played by Mr. Hough and his longtime chamber partner, the cellist Steven Isserlis, at the 92nd Street Y. While they have been performing together for more than 20 years, this was the duo's New York debut, and it was the occasion for a genial display from musicians who combine with easygoing warmth.
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Zegerman appeared in Mr. Leigh's play at the National Theater in 2005, while the Tennessee Williams classic finds an echo in the grim fate here of a unicorn — not, on this occasion, a glass figurine but a stuffed animal.) As in Ms. Reza's play, Ms. Zegerman sets two ostensibly genial middle-class couples on a collision course abetted by the behavior of their (unseen) children, whose actions bring out the withheld tantrums of four adults for whom civility turns out to be paper-thin.
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On top of all that, three of the six contenders on the outstanding supporting actor in a comedy category were drawn from the "Barry" ensemble, each representing a different phase in a performer's career: the breakout newcomer Anthony Carrigan, who's taken the genial mobster NoHo Hank to deliriously giddy heights in the second season; the versatile and recognizable character actor Stephen Root, who plays Barry's longtime kill contract middleman Monroe Fuches on the razor's edge of malignant and co-dependent; and the iconic Winkler, who deepened Cousineau's journey as old failures haunt him.
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