Sometimes games are played to reduce tension and encourage a convivial atmosphere. He was generally remembered as 'as a cheerful, convivial gentleman'. After a convivial dinner with reminiscences, the two fight. They are depicted, rather, as convivial, benevolent, and generous. Williamson was also a bartender and much revered for his convivial nature and political astuteness. The painting does not present a convivial mood. I found more monotonous and less convivial. In the second movement the polka style recalls happy and convivial memories of his youth. A convivial meeting ground for Conservative MPs on the left of the party. Reynolds "filled the chair with a most convivial glee". This event happened at the Van Horne House, also known as Convivial Hall. The forging of a convivial bicultural identity has not erased difficulties. Asclepiades was the earliest and most important of the convivial and erotic epigrammists. Mount reminded James of his own mother, while Mount found James a convivial colleague. This version was published in "The Convivial Songster" in 1782.