levity

"We felt there needed to be a sense of relief and levity for the audience. So, we can ease in and out of it. Otherwise, it's a lot."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Still, some within and around the court saw him as the court’s glue, bringing levity in his interactions with his colleagues and avoiding hard-edge commentary in his opinions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The crowd was sullen, and the only levity came from my boys, 2 and 3, running up and down the hall, hiding and entertaining themselves with a wheelchair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

In our dire age, a little bit of levity can often feel like a wager, staking your bets on an audience’s bandwidth for fun.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

“So you get weekends off,” joked Rowan—trying to add a little nervous levity to the discussion.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"Only when such levities fitted into each other so accurately as to show plan and contrivance."

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

But the literature of the Germans and their romance originals, aim at courtly levities; they artificialize sentiment and thought, as well as manner.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin

He assumed certain 'levities'—I suppose the word will do—to mean more than levities; he construed indiscretions into grave faults, and faults into crimes.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

Besides all this, the untravelled Englishman—and such was Glencore when he married—never can be brought to understand the harmless levities of foreign life.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

His zeal against all these levities, he says, was first moved by observing that plays sold better than the choicest sermons, and that they were frequently printed on finer paper than the Bible itself.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume