lightheartedness

The "joke" part of his comments only came out after the comments were made to assure a sense of lightheartedness from the Polish keeper.

EPL Talk Jesse Chula 2009

Na's textural images recall the lightheartedness and limpid charm of Paul Klee.

Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

In so doing he enables director Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire," "Shallow Grave," "Trainspotting" to tell a story going in an inevitably gruesome direction with a kind of lightheartedness that makes it both bearable and entertaining.

Marc Ruxin: The Bestest 2010 -- Filmmage Marc Ruxin 2011

In so doing he enables director Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire,""Shallow Grave,""Trainspotting" to tell a story going in an inevitably gruesome direction with a kind of lightheartedness that makes it both bearable and entertaining.

Marc Ruxin: The Bestest 2010 -- Filmmage Marc Ruxin 2011

The sense of relief over the danger passed produced a kind of lightheartedness amongst us, and the topics broached at supper would not have been inappropriate at a friendly dinner party.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The sense of relief over the danger passed produced a kind of lightheartedness amongst us, and the topics broached at supper would not have been inappropriate at a friendly dinner party.

The Celebrity, Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

The sense of relief over the danger passed produced a kind of lightheartedness amongst us, and the topics broached at supper would not have been inappropriate at a friendly dinner party.

The Celebrity, Complete Winston Churchill 1909

The less prosperous blacks, together with such of their mulatto confrères as were similarly inert, had the satisfaction at least of not being slaves; and those in the South commonly shared the humorous lightheartedness which is characteristic of both African and Southern negroes.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

In so doing he enables director Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire," "Shallow Grave," "Trainspotting" to tell a story going in an inevitably gruesome direction with a kind of lightheartedness that makes it both bearable and entertaining.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Marc Ruxin 2011

No doubt this kind of lightheartedness was the best antidote to the experience of being "saluted with volleys of potatoes and broken bottles", as the Siddonses were by the citizens of Liverpool, for having ventured to appear on their stage without having ever played before the King.

A Simple Story Mrs. Inchbald 1787