Word: genial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PRICE OF FAME. Movie star Charles Grodin headlines off-Broadway in his own play about a movie star being interviewed by a reporter (the beguiling Lizbeth Mackay) who he realizes is out to do him in. He returns the favor more literally in a glib, genial formula comedy...
Romano appears to be a man of senatorial affability--an earnest gladhander who loves to greet strangers and to seek out their motivations. With a lanky frame that easily tops six feet and a genial, syrupy Southern drawl, he is given to wide, simple, declarative gestures...
...really a hands-on President, particularly in foreign policy. And Eisenhower, he could be very curt at times. He'd just cut them short, his Cabinet members. He said, "Listen, I'll make the decisions regarding what the defense budget is going to be." He could be so genial, yet so cold...
...takes a little more than genial health for Cole to go on to obliterate his Central Connecticut opponent...
...have another misty, nostalgic baseball book to wedge onto a crowded and highly literary shelf. Didn't any skinny kids with library cards go bowling, years ago? But never mind. This genial and shaggily told first novel is not only one of the most artful fictions of the past couple of seasons but also one of the most beguiling stories, which are not always the same thing...