Use "conviviality" in a sentence

1. Ken found company difficult, preferring the routines of parenthood, work and horticulture to the efforts and strains inherent in the pursuit of conviviality and social exchange with his peers

2. in the pursuit of conviviality and social exchange with his peers

3. At Tom’s house there was no steak dinner to celebrate New Year’s Eve and very little conviviality

4. shrewdness, his hearty conviviality, his inexhaustible energy

5. The business was felt to be so public and important that it required dinners to feed it, and many invitations were just then issued and accepted on the strength of this scandal concerning Bulstrode and Lydgate; wives, widows, and single ladies took their work and went out to tea oftener than usual; and all public conviviality, from the Green Dragon to Dollop's, gathered a zest which could not be won from the question whether the Lords would throw out the Reform Bill

6. We made many a "bran new" theory of life over a thin dish of gruel, which combined the advantages of conviviality with the clear-headedness which philosophy requires

7. The hour named for the tryst savored little of conviviality