lightheartedness
Americannoun
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
“It’s hilarious. That lightheartedness is really what acknowledges a sport,” May said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
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
Their lightheartedness made us all feel safer somehow.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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