(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".
Spirited
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Spirit
(a.) Animated or possessed by a spirit.
(a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.