irenic without being namby-pamby. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To call the BioLogos Foundation "irenic" is far too charitable. From Wordnik.com. [homunculus] Reference
I found your piece to be thoughtful, irenic, and historically accurate. From Wordnik.com. [Passages vs. Principles] Reference
In my experience, scientists and mathematicians tend to be rather irenic folks. From Wordnik.com. [The reaction to Bush's statements - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Careful observers will note that Stephen Hawking's language has been more irenic. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Clayton, Ph.D.: Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?] Reference
What separates irenic from polemic Evangelicals is usually the size of these sets. From Wordnik.com. [Templeton Foundation and Santorum Losing Faith in ID? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A loose translation by a very large-hearted and sympathetic student with an irenic spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
He an "irenic conservative" that professes to be an "inerrantist" who is not mad about it. From Wordnik.com. [Good news-bad news from the Baptists: A pause in the need to dominate followed by a resolution demanding, ah, more domination] Reference
Of course, we should not be overly irenic about the relationship between sharia and Western law. From Wordnik.com. [Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia And Day To Day Existence] Reference
Most have taken that as a reference to the false illusion of an irenic future that Disney offers. From Wordnik.com. [Is Don Draper right?] Reference
Worthy of attention is statement on the Terri Schiavo case bearing the irenic headline, Have They No Decency?. From Wordnik.com. [Lenten Weblog] Reference
This is certainly too strong; but obviously the relation between the two has not always been smooth and irenic. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Science] Reference
As celebrations of non-denominational and undifferentiated spirituality, they were irenic, life-affirming, even moving. From Wordnik.com. [William Astore: In Place of Mental Health Care, Are Some Troops Being Evangelized?] Reference
Unlike Ficino and Pico, who were syncretic and irenic in spirit, arguing that in the end all philosophies are in agreement. From Wordnik.com. [Loss of Faith] Reference
I find the fact that the Templeton Foundation is ambivalent to ID not surprising since they tend to be more on the irenic side. From Wordnik.com. [Templeton Foundation and Santorum Losing Faith in ID? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In my time as a guest on Pontifications I have striven to be as irenic as possible in my writing with occasional lapses, forgive me. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Orthodox should refuse to fight] Reference
No doubt intended to flatter Truman and his colleagues, this irenic account of the loss of American innocence has the reverse effect. From Wordnik.com. [A Story Still to Be Told] Reference
Stephen as a friend but I also know him to be unusually irenic and ecumenical for a convert to Orthodoxy from Anglicanism, in his case. From Wordnik.com. [A new Orthodox blog] Reference
Sorry, forgot that ER is irenic both in tone and intent. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
I try to write relatively amusing stuff in an irenic tone. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
So what, you ask, has me so irked when I would be by temperment irenic?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference
This irenic feature is perhaps most prominent in the 10th Article, Of the Lord's. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference
UPDATE at Scot's post (comment #9) - delivered in his usual irenic, winsome style. From Wordnik.com. [kinnon.tv] Reference
In that book was a hymn, one verse of which contains these sweet and irenic lines. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Long Life]
He and his followers were bitterly assailed, but his irenic spirit did not forsake him. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin] Reference
Overall, Olson's tone is irenic and he keeps with his didactic aim fairly consistently. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
In the same irenic spirit, Senator Rockefeller accused insurance companies of "banditry.". From Wordnik.com. [Articles on National Review Online] Reference
This same irenic attitude is encountered again on Good Friday, as Fr. Braga frankly admits. From Wordnik.com. [RORATE CÆLI] Reference
Cranmer hoped to make his statement irenic; and in fact it contained some Roman and Calvinistic elements, but in the main it was Lutheran. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
(Augsburg, 1787-90)) is equally irenic and permeated with the philosophy of Kant. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
It is an irenic text. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Aurobindo seeks synergy between religion and politics] Reference
Q Joe, an irenic question, if I may. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
Perhaps an irenic compromise is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
Oregon 'irenic sp?'. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Brant Hansen, in his typical irenic way, shows us. From Wordnik.com. [transformission] Reference
The irenic vision of. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Q An irenic question. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
+ Letters, tracts, opuscula, etc., of an irenic character, e. g. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
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