Word: genial
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Gross freely acknowledges Harvard’s history of sexism, noting that female undergraduates were barred from Lamont Library until 1967. He has a genial, genuine air, and there’s no pretense in his desire to hear what students have...
Half a million for a fishing contest? Sounds crazy. Absolutely, says Irwin Jacobs, the genial chairman of Genmar Holdings Inc., which owns the FLW Tour: that's hardly enough money. So Jacobs is raising the big prize to $1 million next year and promising a celebrity pro-am, the Pebble Beach of angling. "Nobody ever believed we could do this," says Jacobs, a man not unacquainted with hyperbole. "But we're not anywhere near where we're going to be in 10 years...
...bride Tessa, a fierce do-gooder, to Kenya, where he resumes his job in the embassy and she goes off crusading--to what end, Justin knows not. After her death, he must confront the forces that ended her life and are threatening his. That's when he discovers how genial manners can conceal hearts of darkness...
...Vaughn and Wilson might do well to graduate to a different level of movie, as their acting skills are better showcased when they are toned down. Until that time, we’ll have to settle for “Crashers” and hope that its genial cast and decent infusion of laughter—not to mention more than a few blubber-worthy moments for the romantics—fulfills our expectations...
...Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The usual mixture of hoboes and bohoes, kids out for a good time and jolly parasites out to feast on them. Around midnight, 400 or so young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks...