sanguine
Example Sentences
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But even if Bernays was sanguine about the use of propaganda, his own enthusiasm points at its dangers: Those who manipulate “this unseen mechanism of society,” he writes, will become an “invisible government.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He was physically unscathed and remarkably sanguine about the drone that had shattered his routine afternoon nap just hours earlier.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Snider and Ritter are more sanguine than Lamont.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The EU, however, appeared sanguine on Thursday about any US retaliation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
It wasn’t Lyra’s way to brood; she was a sanguine and practical child, and besides, she wasn’t imaginative.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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