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How to use sanguine in a sentence

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None of these essays is sanguine about the current situation, but all three offer positive views of the future.
We are not sanguine that all the conditions can be fulfilled in a timely manner.
The first is pessimism, the conviction that social transformation is, contrary to the sanguine illusions of the optimists, profoundly difficult.
While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either.
I managed to spit out a stream of the sanguine liquid before dodging just in time to miss her foot.
As Shakespeare wrote it, The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war.
Some analysts are also more sanguine on the outcome of the case than the pessimists are.
Areas can also be kept just the reddish brown of the sanguine, umber or black, depending on the artist's wishes.
He lay sleeping on his king-sized bed, covered under a crimson sheet with the sanguine hat tilted forward onto the bridge of his nose.
It's terrible that a sword meant to save mankind from tyranny is corrupted to sanguine and destructive ends.
Proud, reactionary, occasionally intimidating, fiercely independent, bloody-minded perhaps, but not sanguine.
Sara was not sanguine about the prospects, for all of Midgarde had been held too long in thrall.
While the Spanish government is openly optimistic that the worst has passed, residents and environmentalists were not so sanguine.
Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service, and devotion.
The orators who had advocated the war loudly triumphed in the seeming fulfilment of their sanguine predictions.
Yet all of its military uses, from scouting to strategic bombing, had already been foreseen by an eager, if overly sanguine, public.
That this in no way reduces his sanguine view of future economic prospects is as unbelievable as it is disconcerting.
If you view competition as bad for consumers, you can't have a very sanguine view of their ability to resist corporate come-ons.
One should not, however, be sanguine about the prospects for such international behavior modification.
The Mexican press has been more sanguine about the prospects for the Zapatistas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hope fills the breast of the sanguine, despair that of the gloomy and desponding.
It is the nature of a reformer to be sanguine, but the optimism of saint-pierre touched naivete.
The most sanguine and empty-headed of mortals would never have looked for it in her.
Unluckily his temperament was what the atomical philosophers call sanguine.
He was sanguine in all his hopes, and rapid, but not unthinking, in all his decisions.
His visage would have been the more sanguine, which was now so pale of colour, because of the dolour that was his.
In Grenada, my expectations, sanguine as they were, have been more than realized.
N eusebio and Doa Jesuita galloped after them, exchanging a look of sanguine hope.
Chalcott is sanguine of 'great finds' around the site of ancient Knossos in the near future.
He was forgetting how to laugh, to be buoyant, to see the world through the rose-colored glasses of sanguine youth.
That afternoon, in our unjustifiably sanguine forecast, we had hopes of finding this particular bear.
The oread's body was sanguine brown, only her breast, which I saw half-revealed through a slit in her smock, was snowy white.
Barron was always sanguine, but the vote on the speakership could not but alarm them.
The most sanguine could not but fear that we were entering a calamitous period.
Some of the sanguine spirits aboard this train are buoying themselves up with the idea of getting home.
He was not sanguine, and a French pessimist is the worst thing of the kind that is to be found.
He explained that Allen had been a feeble speculator, but plausible, of personal good faith, and perniciously sanguine.
His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her.
Nevertheless he was not very sanguine of making it a commercial success.
But the most sanguine stickler for Arianism is the illustrious Dr. Clark.
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