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sanguine

adjective as in reddish; flushed

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Her sanguine — and mischievously macabre — response belies the fact that the fire, coupled with the long years of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused an extended fallow period during which she completely stopped creating art.

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Brown is sanguine about AI’s potential; he is not inclined to join the dystopian camp that regards it as an existential threat.

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Until now, he’s avoided the side of humanity that’s lighter, more sanguine and less condemned.

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The question is whether the rest of the country will be so sanguine.

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He was able to stay sanguine during the doping controversy and has also moved on quickly from the brutal nature of his French Open defeat.

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