On the surface, this should sound quite congenial to Trump.
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They say St Cloud is safe and, on balance, congenial.
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And there was the congenial conversation with the grocery bagger.
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" Trump tweeted Friday morning, noting that the talks had been "congenial.
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Rather, you get a congenial, diatonic, rhythmically sturdy kind of conversation.
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It's just so congenial before he invariably cuts to the chase.
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He seemed like a very happy person and she was very congenial.
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Anecdotes abound suggesting that the Midwest is indeed America's most congenial region.
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And laughing at yourself is usually more congenial than laughing at others.
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In the US, conservatism has found small-government ideology a congenial pretense.
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He's regarded as low-key and camera-shy, yet also congenial and accessible.
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The presidents appeared in congenial moods, with one photo showing Putin smiling broadly.
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They're also clearly the source of the show's oddly congenial brand of nihilism.
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It makes for a congenial evening of actors being honored by their peers.
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He was congenial and sensible and his contributions often felt like an afterthought.
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Holleran was bright, congenial, had a strong support system, and enviable athletic skill.
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It sounds rigid, the opposite of open or friendly or charming or congenial.
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Razzi is known here, and sometimes criticized, for his congenial stance toward Pyongyang.
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Berran's new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.
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But if they get there, they will find some congenial company awaiting them.
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We also offer an extremely congenial work environment and a casual dress code.
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For a film about homicide and class conflict, Gosford Park is surprisingly congenial.
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For the last 30 years, negotiations for these contracts have been mostly congenial.
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But the sharp exchange was the only rough patch in an otherwise congenial hearing.
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Congenial notes frequently accompany seeds, and as a result friendships between gardeners often blossom.
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The mood in the room seemed congenial, not tense, but she couldn't be sure.
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Medina quickly establishes their warm, congenial home life as the center of Merci's universe.
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It wasn't that he changed his position to something more congenial to my views.
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Based on the messaging from Facebook and lawmakers, the discussions were congenial and productive.
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The atmosphere is somewhat tense, especially toward the end, but also collaborative and congenial.
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Who could have guessed those acrimonious times would look congenial and bipartisan in retrospect?
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Her congenial attitude alleviates the play's many tense moments, but there's something amiss here.
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There, I met research scientist Ken Clark, a congenial physicist with a sandy-coloured beard.
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Both Erica and Donald said they found the phone call to be nothing but congenial.
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People will tend to choose coverage from congenial outlets when given the choice in experiments.
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She slept over a fair amount, and my grandmother seemed to find this arrangement congenial.
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Initially, she used Bible excerpts, but " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " came to seem more congenial.
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The bad news is that the states ahead look far more congenial to Mrs. Clinton.
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On Tuesday, Denver fans, by and large, were congenial toward Anthony, their onetime All-Star.
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"Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner," Mr. Trump said Friday on Twitter.
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Ms. Smith, who will turn 70 this month, was in a congenial and casual mood.
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These days, Mastoris is a ticket taker, and his interactions with fans are more congenial.
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He spent much of his time teaching, in the congenial but unglamorous University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Or will he change to a more measured, congenial approach now that he's the president-elect?
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But things become quite a bit less congenial when it comes to things like negotiating contracts.
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After Townsend's death in 1958 it was his firm, and it provided a uniquely congenial platform.
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The foreign minister on the Houthi side is Hisham Sharaf Abdalla, a congenial American-educated official.
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" In 1980, The New York Times described him as "every inch a congenial but strict disciplinarian.
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"He was very, very congenial, very straightforward, very open to questions, criticisms and so forth," Sen.
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The fund's relationship with the board in Yankee Stadium's own community has not been as congenial.
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Two congenial constructors, one a familiar weekender, Howard Barkin, and one a Monday regular, Kevin Christian.
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Abe enjoyed a congenial working relationship with Obama, but the two men never developed warm personal ties.
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We still cheer for the congenial Bellas, but their journey has been stretched into a thin whimper.
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Like Nietzsche, he says the West cannot ditch the faith and expect to retain congenial Christian ethics.
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In France it wants a congenial president—Ms Le Pen or François Fillon, the centre-right candidate.
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Once you're in the meeting, explain that you're interested in creating a more congenial relationship, says Taylor.
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He told me all about ICT's latest development in artificial emotional intelligence, a congenial counsellor called Ellie.
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Although Judge Kavanaugh has a more congenial personality than Bork, senators should not be under any illusions.
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The district is packed with the sort of affluent, college-educated Republicans least congenial to the president.
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He went to London less, and entertained more at home, seeing mostly congenial people—fans, not shits.
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But something about the present world has proved congenial to this artist's startling revitalization of abstract painting.
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It's a surprisingly congenial environment, where pretenses are lost and all are united by a common goal.
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He was arguably living in the most congenial of worlds for someone with his outlook on life.
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Making Naadam feel all the more cozy is its congenial relationship with other brands on the block.
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VSB had also never heard of the wine and found it congenial, especially with a light chill.
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I think that if the truth is not congenial to him, he has no regard for it.
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West is obviously glad to see his old partner, giving him a congenial greeting that feels really sincere.
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Instead, they turned in a congenial double-act that implicitly challenged Mr Biden and the party's moderate wing.
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Roh, dressed in a T-shirt and New York Yankees baseball cap, appeared congenial and knowledgeable about firearms.
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Andy would have to work and have a congenial way about it, so the Obetrols worked for him.
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"Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner - there is absolutely no need to rush," Trump said.
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President Donald Trump just released a readout of his congenial April phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Mr. Brown had never quite succeeded in reconciling the Gotham's congenial chaos with the exigencies of breaking even.
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Both as readers and as writers, each of us will react in a way congenial to our temperament.
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It too is to Murray, the influential critic; these two men found something deeply congenial in each other.
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He surrounds himself with sycophants and enablers, and he believes both the facts and the falsehoods he finds congenial.
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That comity has broken down this year in the House, even in the normally more congenial Armed Services Committee.
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The two congressmen's close relationship, forged during their shared time on the Oversight committee, reflect both men's congenial personalities.
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For all the potential static in London, Mr. Trump's meetings here might be the most congenial of his trip.
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The director is Jon Favreau, a congenial figure who stopped the first two "Iron Man" films from rusting up.
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"He finds it congenial to be in a former British colony than in any other country," Mr. Gumbo said.
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Hartley was a notorious taskmaster, and the congenial Gulutzan was not yet a known entity as an N.H.L. coach.
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But onstage he is as relaxed and congenial as ever, delivering this intricately structured show as if it's entirely extemporaneous.
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But the office is more congenial to what he described as his way of working, in which brainstorming is central.
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By then she was in Los Angeles, where she studied art and came to find the company of artists congenial.
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The day was too lovely, the natural world too congenial and the food too satisfying to yield to uncharitable fantasies.
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If that happens to be your mood, too, I can't think of a more congenial place to eat well downtown.
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They may be hoping that Trump will be voted out in 2020, to be replaced by a more congenial Democrat.
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His official debut, released quietly after a kerfuffle with his management, distills his curious sensibility into a legible, congenial shape.
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Oracle will likely put more price pressure on NetSuite renewals and impose more regimented support procedures, undermining NetSuite's congenial SaaS culture.
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He appears ill at ease with large audiences but relaxed and congenial in small groups – much like his mentor, Raúl Castro.
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Benjamin had the shed built in the hope that he could write there, but he hadn't found it congenial to creativity.
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What Janus has done has emphatically rejected the type of bargaining arrangements that were so congenial to the New Deal mindset.
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Writers wishing to lick their existential wounds today may still find the diary a more congenial setting than email or Twitter.
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But a longstanding tone of congenial relations between Wisconsin Democrats and Republicans vanished after the Republicans took over eight years ago.
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That said, a primary is about picking a nominee, not about picking whose cheering chorus you find most congenial on Twitter.
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The other one was less congenial and ended up hoofing it to safety by following the beam to the bridge's end.
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A Rockefeller Grant brought him to Philadelphia in 1962, where it took him nearly a year to find a congenial setting.
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"Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner - there is absolutely no need to rush," Trump tweeted at 6:53 a.m.
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Repeating, he has already placed people who have congenial views to his in every governmental agency that has any relationship to banking.
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In his first Facebook fireside chat he spent 90 seconds talking up "nova previdência" ("new pensions") before returning to more congenial subjects.
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Her children were lost to her, finding it more congenial to live with her sister and refusing to think their father guilty.
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That, in turn, could lead to the emergence of a moral code and demonstrate the benefits of more congenial or generous behaviour.
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Scarlett announced early this year they had actually separated last summer -- but then they were photographed together in January, and seemed ... congenial.
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Any notion of a beatnik-cum-patchouli operation were happily dispelled when I met the congenial Benardo, attired in bright red Nikes.
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"Why was I deprived of meeting those congenial minds, in this good, this glorious cause of light and truth?" he later wrote.
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Flaxman was testing the prevalence of "echo chambers": the widely bemoaned result of liberals and conservatives only consuming news they find congenial.
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Six largish paintings (and one tiny one) manifest this new idiom with an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while a couple show their fangs.
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While there are few major issues where the two disagree, Messer's approach is seen as more congenial, while Rokita is more aggressive.
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The builder was a congenial man a few years younger than me who lived across the levee in the Lower Ninth Ward.
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He admits that when he first envisioned a film career, he didn't see the internet as a congenial home for his work.
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On TV, Levin always appears congenial, but, according to numerous accounts, when the cameras switch off he often turns abrasive and domineering.
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The conversation is congenial and does not bring up the criticism that Harris has faced since the launch of her presidential campaign.
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President Donald Trump tweeted that the negotiations continue "in a very congenial manner" bur also spoke out in favor of his tariff strategy.
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"Oracle will likely put more price pressure on NetSuite renewals and impose more regimented support procedures, undermining NetSuite's congenial SaaS culture," he said.
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The most illuminating of these chats is with Ata, a congenial bearded chap who delves at length into the history of teutonic techno.
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Though many of his interactions with passengers are congenial or comical, with Gargac befriending his passengers, his online following can be less pleasant.
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And thus, the friendship between Ronsel and Jamie causes trouble, and even in its most congenial moments the disparity between them is palpable.
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If women stay boxed in by the norms of our gender — passive, gentle and congenial — we may not be viewed as leadership material.
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High tech is producing new products and ways of living that are congenial to setting side more space for the rest of life.
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When all the players converge, that core melodic material still lingers, but new harmonic relationships have flowered, suggesting a congenial evening of revelry.
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A 21-year-old four-time Olympic medalist, Davis could have treated his fifth Olympic Games as a sort of congenial victory lap.
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It is not unreasonable to expect that any future transactions would be smoothed by congenial relations between Zelensky and Trump, or even Putin.
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After expressing your hope for a congenial meeting, you will then have to move forward, making adult choices about inclusion during landmark events.
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As a justice who clearly enjoys the exercise of power, Kennedy may be finding a continuing embrace of the liberals the most congenial path.
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Yet an identical spirit of cheerfully adventurous immersion into the past pervades "The Black Crook" — and, happily, works there to much more congenial effect.
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"He was most congenial [and] appreciative of the opportunity to speak, and spoke in terms that drew on common ground between parties," Havens wrote.
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Christie's relationship with Trump over the years has been up and down, at times nasty on the 2016 campaign trail and later more congenial.
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One of the first things you notice is that it benefits from a different architecture than the exhibition at MoMA — a space vastly more congenial.
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HBO and the producers have always taken very seriously our responsibility to create a welcoming and congenial environment for everyone who works on the show.
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"Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one," Trump tweeted.
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However, in a week of meetings with putative colleagues and interviews in Brussels, I found youngish, highly educated, well-motivated and generally rather congenial people.
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Some of the articles presented readers with "just the (congenial) facts": these survey-takers saw a news story showing either optimistic or gloomy economic data.
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Washington-Beijing relations have been more congenial than expected so far, but regardless, industry executives on both sides of the Pacific do not sound alarmed.
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The concept was simple: classic Italian dishes served in warm, clubby surroundings, with a come-as-you-are atmosphere that Manhattan's power players found congenial.
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The notion that Judaism is about diversity and pluralism reflects a multicultural, freethinking liberalism that is very congenial to the books' secular, English-speaking audience.
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We live each day knowing that we will die, but most of us find it easy enough, and more than congenial, to forget about it.
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Francis, 81, has made congenial visits to see Benedict, 91, creating white-robed photo opportunities that give the impression of a total lack of tension.
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It is this lack of sentiment that, in part, makes "The Family Gene" both congenial and engaging, despite the long shadow of a broken gene.
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This new phase is incomplete and contested, and it includes elements — in #MeToo feminism, especially — whose ultimate valence could theoretically be congenial to cultural conservatives.
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Mr. Ryan asked Mr. Priebus, the congenial and cunning chairman of the Republican National Committee, for a favor: Could President-elect Donald J. Trump intervene?
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But taking the time to reflect on and communicate about unwanted outcomes can go a long way in creating more congenial, trusting and productive workplaces.
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Also, living with roommates at middle age to escape homelessness is far different and much less benign than generally congenial and flexible college roommate scenarios.
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Both also feature incredibly pleasant ex-wives encouraging those stars to pursue a relationship with the film's romantic lead, which feels very congenial and warm.
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Pandering to the Base: With the exception of Mr. Paul, every senator became less congenial with members of the opposite party once the presidential campaign began.
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Soldiers, artists, socialists and prostitutes flow through the bar where they are confronted by the frenetic Marriner and Christine Foskett (Kate Fleetwood), the club's congenial host.
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Second, after a certain point, more cars make the city a less congenial place for strollers, bicyclists and people who take public transit to their destinations.
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Then came cable TV and the talk radio boom, and suddenly people could seek out ideologically congenial sources and tune out the old mass-culture authorities.
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There seemed to be a person submerged in her who was sending messages to the surface of her skin, signaling when to be approving or congenial.
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Besides a general desire to be seen as more humane, Trump hinted Tuesday at another reason why he would want to appear warmer and more congenial.
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An eclectic cohort is sweeping into Ozone Park like the original advertised breezes, finding space and opportunity in what residents describe as a safe, congenial neighborhood.
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Ayers, a senior aide to Vice President Mike Pence, is also expected to play a leading role, and has a more congenial relationship with Rebekah Mercer.
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Later, there was punk: Something about its harsh sardonic insolence — born of early de-industrialization, low wages and even lower clouds — made Manchester a congenial venue.
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Dolcetto will pair well with many foods, and its light tannins make it especially congenial with salumi, sausages, pastas with mushrooms or meat sauces and pizzas.
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As long as humans have been on this planet, we've been creating technologies to better adapt to our environments and make them more congenial for human flourishing.
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Danielle Palmer's third son, Truett, was born with a congenial heart defect and had to get his nutrients from an IV at the start of his life.
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While Trump and Trudeau have had several seemingly congenial meetings and phone calls since Trump took office, they could not be more different in terms of policy.
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The president remained silent on Twitter for much of Wednesday, and Democrats who met with Mr. Trump said they found him to be in a congenial mood.
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Many have joined this Daf Yomi (page a day) bandwagon because of the congenial typography, translations and commentary of the ArtScroll edition, known as the Schottenstein Talmud.
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That's something of a surprise: no setting would seem less congenial to the strict angles of Martin's paintings than the curves of Frank Lloyd Wright's creamy seashell.
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LOS ANGELES — In "The Cake," a baker, congenial and accommodating in just about every other respect, refuses to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
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She carves niches into her readymade sculptures for little bars of soap, a symbol both of domestic work and the desire to wash from history its congenial veneer.
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But his aides, in order to manipulate Trump into governing in ways they find reasonable or ideologically congenial or both, must echo his bullshit to prove their loyalty.
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On his way to the mosque, Abdoulaye Sambe, an immigrant from Senegal, calls Mr Valls a "good leader"; he credits him for the neighbourhood's congenial inter-ethnic relations.
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HOUSTON — Kevin Brady, a congenial Republican from suburban Houston, wanted to take over the powerful House Ways and Means Committee after previous chairman Dave Camp retired in 2014.
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Her reaction is congenial at first -- she's even got a little advice for Sarah ... who does not have a law degree or any courtroom experience, by the way.
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Far more than regular employees or temps, gig workers have to be careful to be polite and respectful, assuming the posture of congenial visitor rather than critical colleague.
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"Conditions are congenial for the arrival of monsoon in the next 4-5 days," Laxman Singh Rathore, the chief of India's meteorological department, said at a news conference.
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Of medium height, immaculately groomed, clad in dark blue slacks, a striped shirt, and a light blue jacket, Kalugin was congenial and utterly disarming when I met him.
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I am posting this not as a political statement, but as a warm and congenial warning to CNN that it's a bad idea to let the interns tweet.
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Probably not the desire, either: A tight-lipped numbers nerd like Ryan must be about as congenial to the president as a tax auditor in Mar-a-Lago.
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His Random House, by all accounts, was a collegial, congenial workplace, full of talented, laid-back editors who, like the boss, seemed to be signed on for life.
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They are generally more moderate than US libertarians because they participate in practical governance, but they reflect a basic free market secularist worldview that Johnson should find congenial.
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MBS, as the prince is known, has also been viewed as having close ties to Washington, with a seeming congenial relationship between the prince and President Donald Trump.
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"Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one," Trump asserted in a tweet.
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Livingston went on to define the meeting as "congenial" and, because he says the two spoke mainly in Ukrainian, he could not definitely say what specifically was discussed.
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" After the meeting, Mr. Harvey put out a message on Twitter, saying that he found Mr. Trump "congenial and sincere" and that he would "sit with him anytime.
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Friendly and congenial, the 81-year-old jewelry magnate has no political or diplomatic experience and he has moved in the same circles as President Trump for decades.
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Feeling harassed and jostled by life in Paris, in the winter of 1888 van Gogh headed south for Arles, hoping to find balmy weather and congenial artist friends.
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In the day leading up to his death, Justice Scalia was "very congenial, very convivial," Mr. Poindexter said, as the party roamed the property, and some hunted for quail.
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The reply is basically a more congenial repetition of what Spiegel said at the Goldman Sachs Internet & Technology Conference on Thursday last week, in which he defended the redesign.
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A look at Putin's first meetings with Trump's predecessors: The Issues: nuclear arms control, conflicts in the Balkans and North Caucasus The Tone: "Businesslike", "congenial", "easygoing", per the NYT.
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Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are back as Mac and Kelly Radner, a congenial but ditzy couple who worry they're losing their hip cred as they grow into parenthood.
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The Mozart room, for instance, is decorated with chandeliers, gilt mirrors, and busts of well-known composers, so as to create a setting congenial to aficionados of classical music.
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Minutes after the Knicks beat the Chicago Bulls to improve their record to 14-14, Anthony was at his locker, congenial and confident, talking about his positive mental state.
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Powell's first sessions as Fed chief last February and July were largely congenial affairs compared to the sometimes testy exchanges between House Republicans and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
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Over the past two days, Mr. Trump has also had a series of conversations with the United States' traditional European allies, but those calls were seemingly not as congenial.
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In his extended chat with Carl, Negan slipped from congenial to bellicose and back again — such seamless transformations are Jeffrey Dean Morgan's biggest strength in the role so far.
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There is also a banality to the bathroom, and the potential for encounter — sexual, aggressive, congenial, it's a place to take a break, gossip, cry, talk on the phone.
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I can confirm that the deposition took place today as scheduled, that Mr. Steele appeared, was professional and congenial, and that we are satisfied with the results of the deposition.
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To stop the two front-runners, they must consolidate support behind one of the alternatives they find more congenial: Mr. Bush, Mr. Kasich, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida or Gov.
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There wasn't some evil class of corporate elites exploiting consumers for personal gain, or an oppressive government interested in forcing people to conform to a single standard of congenial interaction.
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This is especially puzzling for those of us who once confidently predicted that despite congressional Republicans' personal dislike of Cruz, they would ultimately find him more ideologically congenial than Trump.
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"We don't know yet what such policy will look like, but based on the few signals from the Trump administration, it will be less congenial than Mr Obama's," Arcos noted.
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I had expected someone stern and formal, but Hollberg was, in fact, relaxed and unpretentious and congenial, with a sly humor that rushed into all the gaps in our conversation.
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Our cognitive and linguistic faculties are endlessly creative — that's what makes our species so smart — and that creativity can be always deployed to reframe issues in congenial or invidious terms.
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The school may be as congenial as depicted in this movie, but its actual campus is in reality a lot farther from the beach than the swooping drone shots suggest.
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The sudden eruption of negative campaigning in the midst of what had been a relatively congenial race seemed all but certain to change the dynamics of an already volatile race.
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Though Kline's works may zoom in on isolated existence, they look good together, taken in at a glance, just as Cage found it congenial to have his works played simultaneously.
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Fauna Hodel's tale of alienation and self-discovery is there in a condensed, movie-of-the-week iteration, with the details softened, perhaps to make her a more congenial heroine.
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Her message of "small is beautiful" can be taken as an expression of her humanism; yet her antigovernment, pro-business stance is more congenial to libertarians than to city-dwelling liberals.
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Perdue told the Senate Agriculture Committee during his congenial nomination hearing that he plans to play an intimate role in shaping U.S. trade policy to ensure it benefits the nation's farmers.
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A question Democrats may want to ask themselves is when, exactly, they are hoping for a more politically congenial environment than a presidential election year with Trump leading the opposition ticket?
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It is possible to imagine a suite of conservative health reforms that both addressed real national needs and introduced a more ideologically congenial policy construct to our national health care system.
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As at the Chino Latino restaurants that have persisted in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, Caridad China allows no cross-pollination of seasonings and flavors, only congenial cohabitation on the table.
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Given that few in Washington will openly acknowledge the magnitude of the military failure in Afghanistan, the incentive for identifying new enemies in settings deemed more congenial becomes all but irresistible.
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In any event, the people depicted are cheerful and congenial, even when they boast of the victory they expect to achieve should any American dare to set foot on their territory.
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There are passages about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes visit the city and find it less than congenial to black people.
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And when she later told her grandmother what had happened, Ms. Crouch claimed, the congenial co-host of "Praise the Lord" screamed at her and blamed her for the sexual assault.
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Sanders may have ignored the lessons of the Obama era in favor of a more congenial, if less realistic, theory of American politics, but Clinton's campaign is trapped by its pragmatism.
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Florence, who did not enjoy being with her parents and their attempted imposition of what she would consider to be tired old ethics, found a congenial "family" with the Bedford Gang.
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Luckily for Kavanaugh, however, the opinion about presidential investigations that he ended up at nearly a decade ago has likely turned out to be one that President Trump finds quite congenial.
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The U.S. has been battling with Canada over softwood lumber since the 2628s, and disputes over dairy protections have been a persistent irritant in the otherwise congenial relationship between the two countries.
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The U.S. has been battling with Canada over softwood lumber since the 220006s, and disputes over dairy protections have been a persistent irritant in the otherwise congenial relationship between the two countries.
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Among efforts to make social media a more congenial place, researchers at Cornell are working on artificial intelligence that detects nasty online conversations when they are only starting to take that turn.
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The lyrics spoke of desolation and isolation, feelings that were difficult to connect to when surrounded by a congenial community of sleeping humans in the cozy warmth of a small downtown theater.
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But when the Season 3 premiere begins (after two prologues I'll address in a bit), everyone is settled into a congenial daily routine, three years after the events of last year's finale.
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If the truth be told, the ACLU is the guardian of only those civil liberties that are at the present moment congenial to those on the far left of the political spectrum.
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"I think if the right questions were being asked Rob, being the whip smart, soft-spoken, and otherwise congenial and clean cut person he is, gave a satisfying explanation," the former official said.
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Like a liberal democracy trading with an ideological foe, an outward relationship that seems cooperative, or even congenial, conceals a demonstrable, marked hostility, a fundamental, unresolved mismatch of mutually-misunderstood cultures and attitudes.
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In 2011 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) sent a "Dear Colleague" letter—named after its misleadingly congenial salutation—which issued a sweeping reinterpretation of Title IX, a federal law prohibiting gender discrimination.
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But for such a tense show, The Americans has a more casual set vibe than I was expecting, which is in large part thanks to Russell and Rhys's congenial attitude and sharp focus.
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"He was very interested in pursuing a career working with youth in the future," recalled Cheng, who described the young law student as a congenial young man who made a lot of friends.
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Unlike the colonization of the New World, in which colonists could drop seeds in the ground and see food grow, there is no other place in our solar system with such congenial conditions.
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In addition to exhibiting one side of confirmation bias—uncritically embracing evidence congenial to your world view—Harris recently exhibited a version of the flip side: straining to reject evidence you find unsettling.
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His congenial political brand helped him establish a consistent lead over Ms. Jones in private polling, giving pause to some national groups, like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, about investing in the race.
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According to military protocol, it is customary to salute officers of friendly foreign nations, though it is unclear whether the relationship between the two countries can best be categorized as a congenial one.
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The Trump administration "is beginning to look much more congenial, with risk factors reduced," said Crispin Blunt, a British Conservative Party lawmaker and chairman of the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee.
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The trash-talking heel who grew into the promotion's biggest star renewed himself as a congenial sportsman who, with most of his legal issues settled, could focus on becoming the best fighter possible.
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Dionne argues that conservatives need to recapture the reformist spirit that Dwight Eisenhower embodied: They have to come to terms with the modern world in order to steer it in a more congenial direction.
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They have known that removing lanes to add bike paths and widen sidewalks can calm traffic, make a neighborhood more congenial — and, by the way, increase sales at businesses along that more pleasant street.
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"The problem as I see it is not that judges differ ideologically — of course they do — nor is it that a Republican president would look for someone with congenial ideological preferences," Mr. Burbank said.
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"It was clearly somebody who set out deliberately to sabotage Sir Kim's ambassadorship, to make his position untenable and to have him replaced by somebody more congenial to the leaker," he told BBC radio.
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The next year he found a more congenial home back in Germany as chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden, which became the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg in 21973.
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He is, pardon the pun, the bull in the China shop as he gores those who fleece America and curbs those who would pack our electorate to make it more congenial to their liberalism.
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But in the context of the 2020 field, there is such a broad array of women running that Democrats of all different dispositions should be able to find at least one who's congenial. Sen.
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He spent the rest of his career there and, by all accounts, embodied the figure of a laughter researcher: a bearded, congenial, wisecracking presence whose own humor could straighten the spine at its wicked best.
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Trump on Friday said he was in "absolutely no rush" to finalise a trade agreement with China as U.S. negotiators prepared to continue talks in Washington, saying discussions were continuing "in a very congenial manner".
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Trump on Friday said he was in "absolutely no rush" to finalize a trade agreement with China as U.S. negotiators prepared to continue talks in Washington, saying discussions were continuing "in a very congenial manner".
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When asked to report whether they thought the economy in the past year had gotten better or worse, partisans in these treatment conditions were significantly more likely than others to give the party-congenial response.
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After appearances in February and July in which the mood was largely congenial and the economy on an even keel, "all of these things are coming together to make Powell's testimony particularly challenging," he said.
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The Democratic Party in the early to mid-20th century was a coalition that included both the victorious Southern white supremacists, Western populists, and the nascent big-city labor movement that found this notion congenial.
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It is a congenial group, sticking around on a Sunday to congratulate a peer on his victory, vacationing together (and leaving behind a sizable social media footprint) and sharing private planes to and from events.
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"Biden needs to come across as the congenial, experienced and prepared candidate his supporters think is key to beating Donald Trump," said Basil Smikle, the former executive director to the New York State Democratic Party.
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Here was sweet, congenial, insightful Steve Kerr—son of career diplomat, popular around the league, a mild-mannered California dude known for always saying and doing the right thing—losing control, and his temper, too.
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Kroc can't believe what he's seeing, and he talks his way into a tour of the place with the congenial brothers who run it: Mac McDonald (John Carroll Lynch) and his brother Dick (Nick Offerman).
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And also perhaps out of a strong feeling of alienation from the techniques of domination, so that at times writing seemed to be the most congenial way for me to react to abuses of power.
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Somebody please explain to Chris Wallace of Fox, who will never be his father (and my friend), Mike Wallace, that the Phone Conversation I had with the President of Ukraine was a congenial & good one.
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Yet, unlike the more urbane and congenial Fielding, Richardson has a knack for psychological realism and an ability to craft characters whose clamorous inner lives continue, almost three centuries later, to feel real to us.
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The most immediate effect may come in wrestling, given that one of the nations affected by Mr. Trump's ban is Iran, which has long had a congenial relationship with the United States in that sport.
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Accepted instead by Harvard, he began his studies there in the English department, until it was suggested that a Jewish student might find a new multidisciplinary program in the history of American civilization more intellectually congenial.
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They considered Port Jefferson, Bellport, Patchogue and East Hampton, but finally settled on Sayville, a congenial 5.4-square-mile hamlet with about 16,853 residents, on the South Shore of Long Island, midway between Manhattan and Montauk.
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Now, I know you're not meant to fraternize with the enemy but to be fair to him, he was interested in hearing my opinions and seemed sufficiently flexible in his views to make our conversation congenial.
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Confident and congenial, Mr. Bewkes engaged directly with Judge Leon, leaning forward in his chair and making eye contact as he explained how the media industry is being challenged by Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix.
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With a population of just 736,000, against London's 13 million, and an average annual pre-tax salary of 43,600 euros ($51,300), Frankfurt may also be affected by the influx in less congenial ways, tenants rights groups fear.
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HOUSTON -- A dinner meeting last night between OPEC officials and U.S. shale oil producers was congenial and informative, the CEO of top U.S. oil producer told Axios on the sidelines of a big energy conference here Tuesday.
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"Somebody please explain to Chris Wallace of Fox, who will never be his father (and my friend), Mike Wallace, that the Phone Conversation I had with the President of Ukraine was a congenial & good one," Trump tweeted.
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They accepted that there would be no "return to normalcy," that the United States — as the world's strongest nation and the only one capable of bearing this burden — would have primary responsibility for upholding a congenial world order.
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But clearly some elite Republicans do imagine him as a stalking horse for the more congenial and electable nominee they fondly imagine might be elevated by the convention if Cruz denies Trump the nomination on the early ballots.
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Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner - there is absolutely no need to rush - as Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 28503% on 22019 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products.
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The two nations have long had a congenial relationship in wrestling but Iran said on Saturday that it would stop American citizens from entering the country, in retaliation to what it called "hostile policies" of the U.S. government.
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The hosts of "Morning Joe," fixtures of the same Washington punditry scene that Ms. Conway has frequented since the 1990s, have in the past enjoyed a congenial relationship with Mr. Trump, who reportedly offered to officiate their wedding.
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But even if you listen to the very good conversation that I had, a very, very good, no-pressure, congenial conversation with the new president of Ukraine, he had some things that were not flattering to say about her.
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Wang Yi, the foreign minister, lodged a formal diplomatic protest, said nothing would change the world's recognition of China, and then turned to the congenial task of blaming Taiwan for everything (he described the call as a "petty trick").
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But even if I find gerontocracy more congenial by then, hopefully a Demeny movement will continue to live by the admonition I offer now: The hand that steers the minivan should be the hand that rules the world. ☐
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In a move that follows in the footsteps of a clutch of European cities, New York is to appoint a director of night life, or a DON — an ambassador tasked with giving after-dark activities a more congenial reputation.
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Their negotiations offered Mr. Biden a more powerful role, and gave Mr. McConnell a congenial bargaining partner and what the Senate leader viewed as the path of least resistance to striking a deal, in the view of Biden critics.
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If the plutocrats who dominate the market demand ideas that are already congenial to them, then they aren't evaluating ideas based on their efficacy — as, indeed, they have little incentive to do if they are insulated from their consequences.
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By the end of the period, the Democratic Party faced a new, far less congenial era, at once better sorted as the country's center-left party and yet seemingly less capable of generating a compelling vision and project for power.
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But even so the way polarization even within hiring structures and the nature of the media works, it gets hard once there's momentum internally around a kind of set of opinions, which are opinions that I hold and find congenial.
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The normally congenial Bennet also drew notice during the partial U.S. government shutdown in January, when he blasted Republican Ted Cruz on the Senate floor for leading a similar shutdown in 2013 that stopped the flow of emergency funds to Colorado.
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He enrolled in Kenneth Koch's poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research, where, already under the spell of Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat poets, he found in Frank O'Hara a congenial poetic idiom, vernacular and free.
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The countryside was cheap, and it provided a congenial environment for Gibson's two teen-age sons; it also provides the setting for what Atwood acknowledges as some of her most autobiographical writing, in the short-story collection "Moral Disorder" (2006).
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After appearances in February and July in which the mood was largely congenial and the economy on an even keel, "all of these things are coming together to make Powell's testimony particularly challenging," said Boston College economics professor Peter Ireland.
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Since 2015, the company has had a congenial home at St. Mark's Church, where its programs, like the current one, always featuring live music and musical interludes, have some of the warmth and intimacy of recitals in a college town.
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In fiction, drama, movies, painting and photography, gay men and lesbians, and others on the queer spectrum, have been building habitations in history, whether near or distant, sometimes in search of a more congenial domesticity and sometimes establishing more aggressive encampments.
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And it's the setting of the congenial "Reading Lolita in Tehran" — mid-1990s Iran — that colors the lens through which the author Azar Nafisi's students interpret the Persian and Western classics (like "Madame Bovary" and "Pride and Prejudice") forbidden by their government.
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On a steamy Friday evening, early last summer, I exited a Korean-made metro train with a crowd of teenagers and parents with young children, who filled the elevated platform at Bridgeport Road with a congenial babble of Cantonese, English, Tagalog and Mandarin.
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For the last couple of years, Nathan P. Myhrvold, a former chief technologist at Microsoft with a physics doctorate from Princeton, has roiled the small, congenial community of asteroid scientists by saying they know less than they think about these near-Earth objects.
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He was truly one of a kind, a congenial traveling companion and a great friend to all with a humorous slant on life that always kept our spirits high – a kind man with a big heart for everyone who crossed his path.
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Leading a small touring band along with more than 50 local musicians and choral singers, he was a soft-spoken but congenial host, with a knack for stagecraft, conducting the orchestra and occasionally slipping off to play a hammered dulcimer, or an organ.
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A tremendous amount of research has been done, but it's still not clear if the person who signs off with this really thinks, or wants to indicate, that she is "yours," nor is it clear whether "Yours" is romantic or simply congenial.
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The veteran staffer decided to report Korsh in August 2016, thinking that her seniority and congenial relationship with Buonpane would mean she would "be heard"; it had become too "emotionally draining" to witness Korsh's behavior without trying to change things, she said.
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Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, the self-styled straight man of a Catholic-Jewish duo that for a generation traded congenial religious repartee as "The God Squad" on television and radio and in a newspaper column, died on Tuesday in Uniondale, N.Y. He was 69.
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Moreover, I pointed out that this President had changed the leadership of every government agency related to bank regulation replacing what I would call "hard liners" with men and women more congenial to what was believed to be a pro-business approach to banking.
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President Donald Trump joins the G-7 leaders in France over the weekend, and markets will be watching to see if the meeting exposes new fault lines in the shaky relations among a once fairly congenial leadership group that fought the Great Recession together.
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In an interesting twist, Amazon says that one way to forcibly put Alexa back to sleep is to use the words "thank you" or "stop" to conclude a string of commands, which may perhaps make our conversations with digital voice assistants more congenial in nature.
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Reports have described him as shy, but also incredibly chatty and pleasant to be around, with an "ingratiatingly self-deprecating" sense of humor; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the court's most reliable liberals, has described him as the "most congenial" of her colleagues.
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Soon, however, adherents of this essentialist view will be confronted with a contrasting—and bracing—image: women taking to the debate stage to poke holes not only in one another's policies, but also in the idea that women are by nature more congenial and collaborative.
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" Before the talks ended Friday, Trump described the discussions in a tweet as "congenial" — but said that there was "no need to rush" because "Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 25% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products.
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That album was pleasant listening, and it felt like what it advertised itself as, which is to say a congenial meeting of minds jamming out and making an album that was as satisfying for them to put together as it was to listen to.
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Recalling the four Christmases he endured in the trenches of Flanders, Detective Inspector John Redfyre of the Cambridge constabulary is thankful to be spending this one at a holiday concert for organ and trumpet in the company of a more congenial German, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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The Midwestern industrial states that are supposedly the locus of the economic anxiety that allegedly fueled Trump's rise, however, seem to actually find him less congenial than Romney — for the perhaps obvious reason that, unlike Romney, Trump lacks any kind of conventional qualification for high office.
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The Cleveland Clinic is using the technology to plan and prepare for liver surgery; pediatric surgeons at Stanford University use it to plan heart surgeries on babies missing pulmonary arteries; the technology has also enabled surgeons to detect more congenial heart defects in 40 percent less time.
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In fact, to demonstrate his own sustained seriousness and to demand a demonstration of Kim's good faith, the president also should ask his congenial pen pal for a commitment to permanently close North Korea's 6900 grossly inhuman detention camps in which hundreds of thousands have died.
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A final view, more congenial to the Sanders and Jacobin left, is that while Trump himself is a repugnant charlatan, his supporters seek in him a salve for the real economic problems of blue-collar displacement and the bait-and-switch promises of the American dream.
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Some critics have taken Roseanne to task for doing the right thing but only as a result of personal experience, as in the Muslims-next-door episode, where it takes interaction with her new neighbors to convince her that they are a congenial addition to her community.
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While the two men have had several seemingly congenial meetings and phone calls since Trump took office, they could not be more different in terms of policy, with Trudeau a progressive liberal, outspoken on feminism and the merits of diversity and who was close to former president Barack Obama.
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At the debate, Clinton did seem to let loose a tougher, less insistently congenial version of herself than what she typically allows; even on the subject of late-term abortions, about which she has fallen over herself qualifying her commitment in the past, she did not back off.
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Although he typically worked twelve to thirteen hours a day, six days a week, he liked how relaxed his schedule was; driving around in a sporty, temperature-controlled car was much more congenial than Army life, which was in turn less arduous than working in the fields all day.
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While the Instagram executives were more congenial in their parting statements (explaining that they want "to explore our curiosity and creativity again") than Acton has been, the attention on Facebook's issues with the now-former executives at both acquired companies has brought a stream of negative attention toward Zuckerberg's leadership.
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As a result, with the exception of the more postcard-congenial of his still-lifes, or his sun-drenched Mediterranean views, or his late, monumental scenes of bathers—and despite some smoldering and now and then combusting glories of color—Cézanne's fate has been to be revered more than enjoyed.
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We wanted what was best for all of us, and it's really just such a really bizarre, quick friendship that we formed and it's deeper than just about any lineup we've ever had with Megadeth; even in its strongest period, it was never as congenial as it is right now.
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Allow us to introduce Bongo Cat, the musical feline who swangs their melodious paws on any instrument they can find: Bongo Cat was born back in May, when internet artist Rogue created the first drawing of the cat—its congenial blob form, adorable paws, and slightly amused face—originally named Rogu.
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Given the backdrop of international trade tensions following Trump's tariff increases; the litany of retaliatory measures announced by U.S. allies including the European Union (EU); Trump's criticism of NATO; and close scrutiny of his administration's links to Russia — some of these encounters are bound to be less congenial than others.
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" Responders actually took a more moderate tone on scrubs, criticizing the line more for looking like Glossier or Saturday Skin, two brands popular with millennials and Gen Z. The ensuing conversation was downright congenial, with one person responding: "I feel like the whole 'apricot scrub bad' thing is blown out of proportion.
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Beals captured the attention of the great narrator of public radio, Ira Glass, who devoted a full hour to his campaign on the Sunday before the vote: Beals has made enemies by breaking the congenial rules of primary politics and attacking his rivals for what he sees as their status as tools of corporate interests.
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What a lot of folks get to accomplish through things like Davos is this: In the marketplace of ideas about how to make things better, they can put a weight on ideas that would be expensive for them, and they can give a little helium lift to ideas that would be more congenial to them.
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And despite Thursday night's multi-hour, congenial, and far-ranging conversation on Joe Rogan's podcast—covering AI, the Boring Company's tunnels, the nature of evil, Instagram, and Musk's new idea for an electric, vertical takeoff and landing supersonic airplane—there's no reason to think those worried about Musk's state of mind have been eased.
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"Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner - there is absolutely no need to rush - as Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 85033% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products," Trump tweeted in a lengthy thread in his first comments since the tariffs were officially implemented.
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"Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner — there is absolutely no need to rush — as Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 25% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products," Trump tweeted in a lengthy thread in his first comments since the tariffs were officially implemented.
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At Nancy Pelosi's news conference last week, a reporter asked her about Joe Biden's comments on his congenial dealings in the senate of the 1970s with the Southern Democrats James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge, who were both staunch opponents of Civil Rights legislation and racial integration: There's been a back‑and‑forth between Vice President Biden and some of the candidates.
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Widely believed by YPG commanders to be penetrated by ISIS operatives, the Deir Ezzor Military Council or any new force recruited from among its members will be a less congenial military partner than the YPG-dominated SDF, particularly in a region where strong sympathies for ISIS still exist, and where the SDF was even before the American pullout struggling to contain a growing and effective ISIS insurgency.
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Over time, though, free trade and globalization and deindustrialization made that postwar system less economically viable; the decline of labor and the collapse of the New Deal coalition made it less politically necessary; and the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s made its implicit moral values (heteronormativity for workers, a kind of penny-pinching puritanism for bosses) seem less congenial and more oppressive.
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Without getting into details, Trump professed to have an open mind about climate change, made a passing reference to making an immigration deal that we (meaning my more-liberal-on-immigration-than-myself colleagues) would find surprisingly congenial, and was more eager, as usual, to talk about repairing roads and persuading Apple to build products stateside than about fiscal discipline or any other more Paul Ryan-ish Republican priority.
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When it comes to a divisive issue like immigration, it should be remembered that people's readiness to feel negative about newcomers tends to be inversely proportional to the extent to which they are acquainted with their presence, and therefore the way forward is not to keep people with different backgrounds apart, but increase the opportunities for them to meet and mix through congenial community-based activities, protected from provocation and intimidation.
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Most observers – including Treasury itself, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, and many tax law academics and tax economists – agree multinationals in general, and U.S. multinationals in particular, are grandmasters at generating what I call "stateless income" – income that is stripped from the country with which it has the closest economic relationship (for example, the country where a firm's consumers are located) and deposited in a congenial low-tax jurisdiction, like Ireland.
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WCAL is keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and you can really hear the influence of goth and dream-pop in the tones and textures of his keys on songs like "The Jungle", "Why Do You Bother?" and "Arabian Disco", whereas "Jim" is a plaintive and oddly out-of-place classical guitar passage by Martin, who was fired by the group in late 1993 but has since maintained a congenial yet cool rapport with them in recent years.
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We make small talk with our congenial hosts, about hometowns and jobs and the craziness of Vegas, and later Emily and I will discuss how surprised we were, as we dangled our legs in the pool, clothed in what we thought were stylish black cover-ups but might as well have been nun's habits, to feel our inner eighth-grader surface: insecure and shy and hoping to be worthy of the thousands of dollars' worth of Grey Goose and watery cranberry juice being lavished upon us.
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