find congenial

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Last week the district held its third recall election in three years to decide which faction had the majority to hire a superintendent it would find congenial.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each taste and trait can find congenial companionship in others and thus be stimulated to more intensity and self-consciousness.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

We have shown, however, in a previous chapter that there is great variety and diversity of occupation in religious orders, so that all tastes and inclinations can find congenial exercise in them.

From What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People by Cassilly, Francis Bernard

I have long thought that your eminently practical turn of mind, my dear friend, would find congenial employment in superintending an 'establishment.'

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

Subsequently Alberoni was appointed to a more northern country, where he may find congenial society; for, in a despotism tempered only by assassination, the knees of all become pliant before power.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard