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Example sentences for: genial

How can you use “genial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The genial Parvez wants nothing more than to make it as an Englishman, to the point of enduring a steady patter of racist humiliations and drifting into a second career as a panderer.
The idea that pandas are sweet and genial is ridiculous.
The genial wheeze was to construct playable instrument sculptures, and to christen them with music-related puns (e.g., Tuba Toothpaste).
Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)
Time tours the loopy, genial world of Art Bell, who draws 9 million listeners weekly to his late-night, UFO-conspiracy, Martian-happy radio broadcast.