levity

She works as a healthcare clown for Boston Children’s Hospital on the side and continues to live by the clowning code: be open-minded and take life with a spoonful of levity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"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

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

I think the answer has something to do with a desire for levity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

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

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

But the levities of Julia, to which Augustus could not be blind, compelled him to banish her—his only daughter—to the Campanian coast, where she died neglected and impoverished.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

Once or twice he sighed at Wayne Shandon's failure to respond to his levities; and when he felt particularly unappreciated he carried his dimpling personality to the bunk house where he was hailed with delight.

From The Short Cut by Frank Tenney Johnson

She neither smiled when he was witty, nor looked shocked at his levities.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

But to whatever levities he has been betrayed, it does not appear that his principles were ever corrupted, or that he ever lost his belief of revelation.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

He is an aristocrat, and he writes—better than any—of the aristocracy; and yet, in the long result, is it of his well-bred levities and of his pleasantly-housed, lightly-living people, that one comes to think?

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys