All 4 Uses of
genial
in
War and Peace
- Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and after the soup the prince became more genial.†
Chpt 3
- The stranger's face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were irresistibly attractive to Pierre.†
Chpt 5 *
- For Moscow society Pierre was the nicest, kindest, most intellectual, merriest, and most magnanimous of cranks, a heedless, genial nobleman of the old Russian type.†
Chpt 8
- "What year did you enter the service?" he asked with that affectation of military bluntness and geniality with which he always addressed the soldiers.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(genial as in: a genial personality) friendly and good-natured