as in sweetness and light
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Noun
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Certainly, there is not the faintest whiff of a waft of a suggestion that Novak was anything other than delightful to work with, the very incarnation of sweetness and light herself.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Sep. 2025 -
Unfortunately, no matter how much her hemline communicated sweetness and light, Ryder was still found guilty and sentenced to 480 hours of community service, a $3,700 fine and 36 months of probation.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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This linear direction represents the pattern or signature within the AI that gets the AI to exhibit over-the-top friendliness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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In the South, friendliness is not a passing state but a way of life.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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Visuals of exaggerated cordiality between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Xi Jinping of China at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on September 1 displayed China’s convening power.—
Shyam Saran,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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One of the institute’s medical personnel, Farah (Kate Dickie), greets them with the kind of clinical cordiality that undercuts its outwardly soothing welcome with unnerving detachment.—
Jake Cole,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Those who yearn for peace and stability, commerce and comradery, amity with our friends and neighbors?—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 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 18 Sep. 2025.
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