irenic , also: irenical , also: eirenic

In our irenic, friendly field, on this subject there's blood all over the floor.

In the dawn, he had awakened as if from the first irenic sleep of his life.

This irenic approach flows from a critical methodology of philosophy.

The irenic air seemed to amaze and relieve them.

The guard women were tall and muscular, their expressions stonily irenic.

Despite these many literary battles, Pareus was by nature irenic.

An orator of irenic countenance cannot summon a people to greatness.

I found him a shade too irenic.

Perhaps it were better to avoid any discussion of the irenic qualities of Islam, just to be on the safe side?

Jamal Khwaja's basic approach to philosophy and religion is irenic rather than polemical.

The publication is irenic in design, its main point being the diversity of ways in which the doctrine of the Trinity may be stated.

Daphin's voice was irenic and reassuring.

Agree - for all the LibDems supposed liking for the irenic, they make bad partners.

Iran: Ironic or Irenic?

Following this, she began to collaborate with the irenic theologian, Claude D'Espence.

Anything but Irenic Main Republican Debate Notes? "

An irenic literature developed, relating to divisions within Protestantism, particularly in the twenty years after the Peace of Westphalia.

He received the appellation Shnorhali from his contemporaries because of the very irenic quality of his writing.

Although Foxe clearly favored Knox, he was irenic by temperament and expressed his disgust at "the violence of the warring factions."

His first encyclical was titled "God Is Love," and charity has become the recurring byword of his apparently irenic pontificate.

Stroumsa cites the Sermon on the Mount (, ) as an example of an irenic passage in the New Testament.

He combined models of confrontational and a more irenic approach of presenting the love of Christ, 'characteristic of the student volunteers'.

But it is not always so irenic here on the roof of the world, where winter winds often roar down from the mountains and whip the water into a frenzy.

He argues plausibly that irenic recoil from the fratricidal divisions and intolerance of Christendom contributed greatly to the formation of deism.

Although commonly thought of as a unified statement of doctrine by the two reformers, Luther did not conceal his dissatisfaction with the irenic tone of the confession.