ZOE: You sanguine about the kind of reception we’re apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
MAL: Absolutely. What’s sanguine mean?
ZOE: Sanguine — hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
MAL: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don’t it?

Joss Whedon (b. 1964) American screenwriter, author, producer [Joseph Hill Whedon]

Firefly (2003)