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Hands down one of the best scenes of the show 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why would he even post this?

just thought this was a sweet moment between them. they don’t share too many of those lol

Sanguine gets used as a dressier "optimistic", and it almost works, but the word comes with a condition attached. You are sanguine about something that could reasonably go badly. Sanguine about the layoffs, about the diagnosis, about their chances in the second half: all fine. "I'm sanguine about the weather on Saturday" is off, and off in a way people can hear even when they can't say why. Nothing is at stake, so there is nothing to be composed about.

That is what the one-word gloss loses. Optimistic points forward at a good outcome. Sanguine points at a threat and declines to panic. Hopeful and upbeat are cheerful; sanguine is unbothered. The first time I saw it used about someone's stock portfolio I assumed it was a mistake, and it wasn't, because money is exactly the kind of thing you can lose.

Two traps worth knowing. The register is formal and written, so out loud it can come off slightly pleased with itself, and "not worried" usually does the same work. And the close relatives went somewhere else entirely: sanguinary means bloodthirsty, sanguineous means relating to blood, all three off the same Latin sanguis. "A sanguinary outlook" is not a more impressive way to say a hopeful one.

i love this episode one of my favorites. I think it perfectly captures how this show can be funny and real/relatable af. It captured Phil and Gloria’s dynamic early on (the funny) while also showing how Phil sees Claire is under appreciated by him sometimes (the realness). I also think this portrays Phil’s awkwardness sometimes around Gloria. Some call it “creepy” or disrespectful but i think it was supposed to be the reaction of a man interacting with a woman that looks like Sophia Vegara lol. They were mistaken for a couple in this episode which he doesn’t think much of until it kept happening, which makes him awkward like the kiss at the basketball game because as we all Know Gloria is a stunningly beautiful woman (which in hindsight is the joke of all the “I got Gloria” moments…