Example Sentences

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Jack Bratich, a journalism professor at Rutgers University who studies political culture and social media, said Mamdani has shown he is able to combine a lightheartedness with serious conversations.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

Terms like “chat” also speak to the cultural norms being shaped among young people—notably, the desire to cope with the natural stress or anxiety of growing up with humor and lightheartedness.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2024

I was really excited about that, because I wanted there to be this reveal of him where you could hear the cracks in his voice, the lightheartedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

The agony of irrelevance might be commonly addressed in movies, but rarely with the lightheartedness of Martika Ramirez Escobar’s airy fantasy, “Leonor Will Never Die.”

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Of course they were all diligent workers as well; but youth was a time when a certain amount of lightheartedness was tolerated.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry