irenic
Example Sentences
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Respond with irenic understanding, and you’re treating her as a patient or a puppet, someone acted upon and controlled by larger forces.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
The light filtering through the front door toward which Melrose walks is redemptive, the opening bars of Blur’s “Tender,” which accompany him, suitably irenic.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2018
He was, if you’ll pardon the expression, positively irenic.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2011
The tradition of the congresses used to be a militant witness against Protestantism, but the mood of last week's meeting was newly irenic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He and his followers were bitterly assailed, but his irenic spirit did not forsake him.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin by Kleiser, Grenville
