While command came easily to him, companionability did not. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
Kindness and companionability are to an older woman what t & a are to a younger. From Wordnik.com. [Mouth-corner spittle, in HDTV.] Reference
The dog genome is pretty well documented at this point and we know where the gene for aggression is as well as genes for timidity and companionability. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Regulating Dangerous Dogs:] Reference
Mind, they aren't a perfect companion for this poet, but I can certainly recognize their companionability and further, can imagine them being carried around and dogeared. From Wordnik.com. [George Murray and Christopher Patton, other strands of American influences] Reference
On the whole, however, Moulsworth's poem demonstrates (and perhaps was even intended to demonstrate) the standard humanist claim that a certain level of education could only enhance a woman's virtue and companionability. From Wordnik.com. [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference
His hospitality, warmth and companionability are truly unequalled. From Wordnik.com. [Go Knit In Your Hat] Reference
"If silence is the test of companionability," I answered, with a grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Thumb Mark] Reference
Yet what a sense of leisureliness one has in reading him, as well as a sense of companionability!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend John Burroughs]
Pain has its pleasures, not the least of which are its reliability, immediacy and even, in a strange way, companionability. From Wordnik.com. Reference
With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability. From Wordnik.com. [A Backward Glance at Eighty]
She has an aura of sympathy and companionability which makes her one with the healing earth and the warming, encompassing sunshine; May you and she give many more sojourners as much of the right stimulus as you have given yours affectionately. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
Ballroom dancing has it all – the elegant, unhurried movements, the gentle companionability, a degree of mental alertness, the need to avoid other people’s toes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
A ruminative novel necessarily depends on the companionability of the ruminator: we read on because we’re enthralled by the company of, say, Binx Bolling, the moviegoer of Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (a novel that’s a huge artistic creditor of Ford’s trilogy), and we happily refrain from pressing the more pragmatic demands we might make of other fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Character] Reference
Humor and companionability were not on display. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
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