sanguineness

Example Sentences

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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.

From Time Magazine Archive

And blessed sanguineness of five years old, which could bridge the gulf between then and manhood, and cry, Auf wiedersehen!

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

Blessed, labour-lightening sanguineness of youth! that can bound over intermediate steps of toil, and accomplish in a few thoughts the work of months or years.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

Much of this effect is chargeable less on an Epicurean levity of feeling or on party-trammels, than on real sanguineness of disposition, and a certain fineness of professional tact.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William