Example Sentences

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California's wild parties and light-mindedness, announced Avak, were not conducive to faith healing �and neither was the climate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Please help me find some way—so that he won't go on being light-minded and liking light-mindedness.

From Missy by Gatlin, Dana

It's about Louisa Helen again and her light-mindedness.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

This is no light-mindedness that thou beholdest in me, but the valiancy that the Fathers have set in mine heart. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

Sir Morgan Walladmor," said Alderman Gravesand, "is a wise man; and, in these times of change and light-mindedness, he sticks up for ancient customs.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas