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Despite the tension, she managed to inject a bit of levity into the news conference.levity = lightheartedness or humor
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But when I start to help him to the stream, all the levity disappears. (source)
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It was a dreadfully austere inquiry, but levity was not our note, and, at any rate, before the gray dawn admonished us to separate I had got my answer. (source)levity = lightheartedness
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Your levities and audacities are like the loves and comforts prayed for by Desdemona: they increase, even as your days do grow.† (source)
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, the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc. The lawyer had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the apples,—an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Benigne Bossuet himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately fashion.† (source)
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During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairytales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever.† (source)
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They disliked his erudition, such as it was; they disliked his skepticism, which they mistook for levity.† (source)
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The vortex of thoughtless folly into which I there so immediately and so recklessly plunged, washed away all but the froth of my past hours, engulfed at once every solid or serious impression, and left to memory only the veriest levities of a former existence.† (source)
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How thin it looked, this self-protective levity.† (source)
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Let the King's Reader of Plays, backed by the Press, make an unwritten but perfectly well understood regulation that members of Mrs Warren's profession shall be tolerated on the stage only when they are beautiful, exquisitely dressed, and sumptuously lodged and fed; also that they shall, at the end of the play, die of consumption to the sympathetic tears of the whole audience, or step into the next room to commit suicide, or at least be turned out by their protectors and passed on to be "redeemed" by old and faithful lovers who have adored them in spite of their levities.† (source)
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Mae attempted levity: "I guess you don't put anyone with vertigo up here."† (source)
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The second of levity passed, and everyone was still.† (source)
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A bit of levity to ease the burden we're under.† (source)
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OK, levity over.† (source)
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He ignores my attempt at levity.† (source)
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A moment of lighthearted levity from Ringer the warrior queen!† (source)
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