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The Goldfinch
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- As it was, she died when I was a kid; and though everything that's happened to me since then is thoroughly my own fault, still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.†
p. 7.5 *congenial = agreeable or compatible
- He went down there early and sometimes, if he had a project, stayed down there after dark, but generally when the light started to go he came upstairs and—before washing up for dinner—poured himself the same inch of whiskey, neat, in a small tumbler: tired, congenial, lampblack on his hands, something rough and soldierly in his fatigue.†
p. 395.9
- Havistock Irving turned to fix me with a keen —and, to me, not wholly congenial — beam of interest.†
p. 622.6
- A year is how long it's taken me to quietly wander round on my own and re-purchase the frauds still out, a delicate proceeding which I've found is best conducted in person: three or four trips a month, New Jersey and Oyster Bay and Providence and New Canaan, and—further afield —Miami, Houston, Dallas, Charlottesville, Atlanta, where at the invitation of my lovely client Mindy, the wife of an auto-parts magnate named Earl, I spent three fairly congenial days in the guest house of a spanking new coral-stone chateau featuring its own billiard parlour, "gentleman's pub" (with authentic, imported, English-born barkeep), and indoor shooting range with custom track mounted target system.†
p. 759.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(congenial) agreeable or compatible in a positive way -- often in the context of being friendly and sociable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)