irenic
Example Sentences
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Respond with irenic understanding, and you’re treating her as a patient or a puppet, someone acted upon and controlled by larger forces.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
The light filtering through the front door toward which Melrose walks is redemptive, the opening bars of Blur’s “Tender,” which accompany him, suitably irenic.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018
He was, if you’ll pardon the expression, positively irenic.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2011
The tradition of the congresses used to be a militant witness against Protestantism, but the mood of last week's meeting was newly irenic.
From Time Magazine Archive
A loose translation by a very large-hearted and sympathetic student with an irenic spirit.
From Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodous
