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149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   asked this question:

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149 months ago

   wrote:

the sweet hope

My comment:

Esquisser à grands traits significatifs : En trois coups de crayon il campa sa silhouette.

his broad strokes bring out the sweet hope a lifestyle embodies.

149 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

he transmits sweet optimism/ ray of hope

My comment:

the last because of the circumstances as she died young of tuberculosis. See : http://www.fashioningthepast.com/2012/04/thomas-gainsborough-honourable-mrs.html.

149 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

he transmits sweet optimism/ ray of hope

My comment:

the last because of the circumstances as she died young of tuberculosis. See : http://www.fashioningthepast.com/2012/04/thomas-gainsborough-honourable-mrs.html.

149 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

he exudes a sweet optimism.

My comment:

With a little lateral thinking and a sprinkle of imagination, I came up with this answer. espérer-espérance-hope-hopeful attitude, with a little stretch it becomes optimism. Expectation restricts us and does not convey a sense of optimism necessarily.

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149 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

a sweetness so hoped for, a hoped-for sweetness

149 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

he portrays a living kind of art that exudes/is imbued with a hoped for/expected kind of pleasure

My references:

Collins Robert Unabridged French/English Dictionary

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

149 months ago

   wrote:

Or perhaps "creates" instead of "portrays">

149 months ago

Jennifer White   wrote:

art de vivre = lifestyle

149 months ago

Jennifer White   wrote:

Except this kind of text doesn't call, not should it, for a literal interpretation, Ms. White.