What's the difference between ruddy and sanguine?

Ruddy


Definition:

  • (n.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.
  • (n.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.
  • (v. t.) To make ruddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Agüero’s run was as strong as it was skilful, beating four attempted tacklers in a drive into the penalty area that ended with him poking the ball past Ruddy as the goalkeeper came out to narrow the angle.
  • (2) Everton were level as Barkley lashed the ball past John Ruddy with his left foot after Seamus Coleman had cut inside from the right flank.
  • (3) Bony three times had chances to open the scoring but found Ruddy equal to his first speculative effort, then he missed the target completely from a better opportunity set up by Kelechi Iheanacho.
  • (4) Seven remain missing: McVeigh, SAS Captain Robert Nairac, Joe Lynskey, Seamus Wright, Kevin McKee, Brendan Megraw and Seamus Ruddy.
  • (5) Norwich: Ruddy, Whittaker, Turner, Martin, Garrido, Howson, Tettey, Fer, Johnson, Redmond, van Wolfswinkel.
  • (6) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (7) Ruddy did not immediately respond to questions seeking clarification.
  • (8) The Spaniard turned up in the box at just the right time to turn in a cross from Jones after Ruddy had made another good save, this time from Rooney, without succeeding in pushing the ball dead.
  • (9) Pellegrini brought on Dzeko for Jovetic, but while his side continued to dominate possession they rarely forced Ruddy into action, and in the final few minutes Norwich should have won the game.
  • (10) With John Ruddy completely wrong-footed, Loïc Rémy opened the scoring, directing a simple, far-post close-range header into the empty net.
  • (11) Two years later, it remains in ruddy health as Malawian voters head to the polls today for an election that no one can predict.
  • (12) Ruddy might have got a touch, but the goalkeeper made an unquestionably fine save when David Silva laid the ball back for Jovetic to volley just before half-time.
  • (13) Hatem Ben Arfa picked out Moussa Sissoko with a pass inside City full-back Martin Olsson, and the midfielder pulled the ball back perfectly for Rémy, but the striker's shot was easily saved by Ruddy.
  • (14) Other features include upper body edema and ruddiness or cyanosis, distended neck veins, proptosis, and conjunctival suffusion.
  • (15) It was a smart finish and Tadic’s second followed minutes later, after Ruddy had pushed out Pellè’s header from Cédric Soares’ cross.
  • (16) Of course, that means José Mourinho needs someone else to kick balls at Thibaut Courtois when warming up for matches and look interested sitting behind him in the Stamford Bridge dug-out and José reckons John Ruddy is just the man.
  • (17) It mattered little, though, as Gallagher slotted the ball under the Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy from 12 yards after a Jack King knock-down with 19 minutes to go.
  • (18) City goalkeeper John Ruddy looked calm enough as he watched Rémy's early effort curl outside his left-hand post, but the shot was inches rather than feet wide.
  • (19) Within 10 minutes, Ruddy had made the outstanding save of the match, in a second half also notable for Jake Livermore's debut.
  • (20) The world is flat in ways the high-flying global theoreticians don't always acknowledge; these days, even someone from the materially fortunate parts of the world – a man with a ruddy complexion, a woman in a Prada suit – is pulled aside for what is quixotically known as "random screening".

Sanguine


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the color of blood; red.
  • (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
  • (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
  • (a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
  • (n.) Blood color; red.
  • (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
  • (n.) Bloodstone.
  • (n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
  • (v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
  • (2) Ministers are sanguine, expecting the controversy to die down once the bill becomes law, even if they are concerned at the way in which the rightwing commentariat has lined up against the bill.
  • (3) The article points out the possibilities and limitations of combining a) ascending phlebography of the leg and pelvis with peripheral venous pressure measurement (phlebodynamometry) and b) visualisation of the veins of the pelvis and vena cava inferior with central sanguinous venous pressure measurement (CP).
  • (4) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
  • (5) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
  • (6) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
  • (7) The initially sanguine expectations regarding the practical use of recombinant DNA research, for instance in the production of biologically important substances by bacteria, will therefore possibly not be realized at short notice.
  • (8) The sera from 2.028 blood donors were screened by all those techniques, as well as 105 known sera, used as references (87 HBS antigen positive sera with different titers, 18 HBS antigen negative sera) and coming from 4 origins: NIH-Bethesda, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
  • (9) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
  • (10) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
  • (11) Cooze and the trust’s chairman, Phil Sumbler, say they knew the other shareholders would sell at some point and are sanguine about them making so much money.
  • (12) We need to keep cool heads as the market heats up.” Carney has been less sanguine over the state of Britain’s economy and earlier this week sent clear hints to financial markets that interest rates would be held at their record low of 0.5% for many months to come against the backdrop of a weaker world economy and a slowdown in the UK.
  • (13) Weaknesses are being exploited by firms to reduce their tax burdens.” While the proposed new rules could run into opposition from national EU governments that have to endorse the package, Moscovici sounded sanguine that there would be quick approval, enabling the mandatory and automatic exchange of information on tax rulings to come into effect by the end of next year.
  • (14) David can afford to be sanguine about his brother's choice of career, however, because he remains the more senior figure after making Question Time his own.
  • (15) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
  • (16) Although he couldn’t be described as sanguine about the reality of representing himself – “I get minor panic attacks just being in the same room as my ex” – he does believe it’s possible to do a decent job on your own behalf in court.
  • (17) The result is that, once again, the US and Britain have persuaded themselves of an ambitious course of action – weakening or even breaking the Putin-Assad link – the results of which other allies are less sanguine about.
  • (18) Personally I thought the Gomez take (cited in an mlssoccer.com story ) was about the most sanguine on it: I love it – I love it.
  • (19) Watery, serous, serosanguineous, and sanguineous discharges are surgically significant; while they are most often caused by intraductal papillomas or fibrocystic disease, they can be due to cancer or a precancerous mastopathy.
  • (20) Matthew Taylor, the former chief adviser on strategy to Tony Blair, is more sanguine about the chances of making the pitch "Brown in adversity".