0 (of someone or someone's character) positive and hoping for good things:
The sun lit up her hair, bringing out tremendous sanguine red and amber highlights.
All the men seemed to have big stomachs and sanguine complexions.
Lest economists feel too sanguine about the virtues of markets, one should also acknowledge that markets do not always get it right.
Although families sought to know about the reality of the patients' conditions, the patients were less sanguine concerning hospice or end-of-life planning.
Scholars with a more sanguine view of the state often favour the cost-benefit approach.
In contrast to the sanguine perspective on cognitive differences in schizophrenia lauded above, we propose that there is less here than meets the eye.
Yet, with the long-term perspective of the historian and archaeologist contributors to this volume, its tone is remarkably sanguine.
