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Example sentences for: lighthearted

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Slowly, Anderson cooks up a simultaneously lighthearted and sinister mood, as if this were a thriller set at summer camp.
The article you saw was this month's edition of Keeping Tabs, a lighthearted monthly column I write for Slate that sums up--and pokes fun at--what the supermarket tabloids have been writing about for the previous month.
The novel "reminds us that even in our own day, it remains, as Henry James said, a complex fate to be an American," says Malcolm Bradbury in the New York Times Book Review . In the New York Review of Books , Gabriele Annan says Johnson's contribution to the innocents-abroad novel is her spirit of lighthearted seriousness: Le Divorce "takes desertion, suicide, and murder in its stride, as though they were merely obligatory literary devices."
Director Griffin Dunne and actors Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick meant to turn the darker sides of voyeurism and revenge into lighthearted fare; critics say they failed.
, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it.