empressement

noun

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as in sweetness and light

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  1. sweetness and light
  2. friendliness
  3. cordiality
  4. amity
  5. complaisance
Noun
  • The Sussex position has historically been diametrically opposed to the staff who criticize her, with Harry insisting Meghan spread nothing but sweetness and light through the corridors of Kensington Palace.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Review: Sabrina Carpenter brings sweetness and light to her polished, playful concert.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of sweetness and light
Noun
  • The big picture: Trump's friendliness toward Putin isn't a new phenomenon.
    — Dave Lawler, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Eschewing cult-leader cliché for a plummy everyday friendliness that eventually circles round to sinister, Ben Whishaw cleverly plays Elon as equal parts guru and grifter: His counsel is sometimes obvious, but what the person needs to hear just the same.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of friendliness
Noun
  • Such cordiality was impossible this time, and Dirk Hauser — head of media for Bayern’s academy then and to this day — had to keep the two men apart, in different parts of the old stadium.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Hold on to your butts, Samuel L. Jackson is coming after awards season cordiality.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of cordiality
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  • By then, John had died, and a new Pope, Paul VI—the former Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini—had gone to Jerusalem, seeking symbolic expression of the new Catholic-Jewish amity.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The couple treat the filmmakers — and therefore us — with amity.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Definition of amity
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    — Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
Definition of complaisance
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