as in sweetness and light
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Noun
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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
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The big picture: Trump's friendliness toward Putin isn't a new phenomenon.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
4 Mar. 2025
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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
Noun
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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
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Hold on to your butts, Samuel L. Jackson is coming after awards season cordiality.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
28 Nov. 2024
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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
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The couple treat the filmmakers — and therefore us — with amity.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.—
Lesley M.M. Blume,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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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
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“Empressement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empressement. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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