How To Use Levity In A Sentence
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There are many - too many - first-person accounts of illness but because she doesn't seek to entertain us we are spared the improbable levity and mordant wit that have become standard.
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But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity.
Symposium
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Obviously the studmuffin didn't share her problem with inappropriate levity.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
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There are moments of levity, but they don't last long.
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“Hooray” adds a certain levity to a written sentence and literally brings a smile to any face when spoken (just say and word and the pronunciation will literally cause your mouth to form a smile-like shape).
Blog – syllable studio
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Would that, for the sake of herself and her beautiful daughter ... would that for the sake of public morality, Mrs. Robinson were persuaded to dismiss the gloomy phantom of annihilation; to think seriously of a future rebribution; and to communicate to the world a recantation of errors that originated in levity, and have been nursed by pleasure.
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.
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Stripping away the levity of certain scenes and shocking the audience with coarsely untheatrical moments may bring out subtle new nuances in unexpected areas, but it gives no impression of a full reading.
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The company encourages a little levity to make crammed flights slightly more tolerable.
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Amorth presents his ostensibly absurd stories convincingly, with charm and plenty of natural levity.
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His conflicted expression is suddenly interrupted by a flash of levity.
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His strange levity, which he calls gravity, on the death of Belford's uncle.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
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From the reputation which he had previously acquired for gallantries, and the sort of reckless and boyish levity to which -- often in very "bitterness of soul" -- he gave way, it was not difficult to bring suspicion upon some of those acquaintances which his frequent intercourse with the green-room induced him to form, or even (as, in one instance, was the case,) to connect with his name injuriously that of a person to whom he had scarcely ever addressed a single word.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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We tried to offer readers lively coverage and bring some levity to some of the serious issues.
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I don't think it's a joke, but the creator is all about a sense of humor, quoting Robert Anton Wilson on the front page: Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously.
Boing Boing
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By resisting the temptation to be weightily profound, the story succeeds in telling useful truths with a touch of levity.
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He was vexed with the levity that had made him call his roomful together on so poor a pretext, and yet was vexed with the stupidity that made the witnesses so evidently find the pretext sufficient.
The Tragic Muse
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It is only by its interactions with gravity that levity brings about events in the physical world-events, however, which are themselves partly of a physical, partly of a superphysical kind.
Man or Matter
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I love it the better, because it was originally designed for Captain Grose, an excellent antiquary, though, like yourself, somewhat too apt to treat with levity his own pursuits:
The Monastery
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Each of those movies was scary, but with the right note of levity to keep them out of straight horror territory.
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Mingle in their follies, and see they cover not deeper designs under the appearance of female levity — if they do mine, do thou countermine.
The Abbot
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{77} Here is the head of a Frenchman [_shews the head_], all levity and lightness, singing and capering from morning till night, as if he looked upon life to be but a long dance, and liberty and law but a jig.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
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Because although he brought a welcome note of levity and color to the proceedings by popping up at intervals in leopard-skin skivvies and straight jacket and chains, and although Ellen and I had a great time coming up with theories, the play itself wasn't entirely clear on what he was actually doing there.
Ragtime
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Krogh recalled, in his memoir of the Watergate era, that Mr. Shulman had occasionally used one-arm push-up competitions to bring levity to difficult moments.
Stephen N. Shulman, lawyer who defended Watergate figure, dies at 77
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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In her temper, too, there is a slight infusion of the termagant; and her satirical humor plays with such an unrespective levity over all subjects alike, that it required a profound knowledge of women to bring such a character within the pale of our sympathy.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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From the reputation which he had previously acquired for gallantries, and the sort of reckless and boyish levity to which -- often in very bitterness of soul -- he gave way, it was not difficult to bring suspicion upon some of those acquaintances which his frequent intercourse with the green-room induced him to form, or even (as in one instance was the case) to connect with his name injuriously that of a person to whom he had scarcely ever addressed a single word.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
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She may not even want levity or jokes or funny movies or perhaps even interaction with former friends.
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Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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The term Francie used was a colloquialism generally associated with levity, but her face, as she spoke, was none the less deeply seriou -- serious even to pain.
The Reverberator
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Masks add a touch of macabre humour to a conflict that offers few moments of levity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although everyone seems to think yoga is serious business, there is room for levity.
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Your own persevering chirruping is (in my humble judgment) so out of character with a season, in which every wise creature must be apprehensive for the future, that I can only excuse it on the ground of an ignorance and levity, which you have had no opportunity of correcting.
Parables From Nature
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He laughed, knowing her admission was an effort to inject some levity back into a situation that had grown uncomfortably serious.
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The gods cultivate levitation, which is a different thing from levity, meaning skyey gravitation, uplift, aspiration expressed in bodily attitude.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
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Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design.
Cecilia
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It could provide some levity to the show … until the day Matt finds out that Damon has not only chowed down on Caroline but also essentially killed his sister.
'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Damon's plan revealed | EW.com
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Chris' eyes faltered for a moment, but continued to playfully twinkle during his levity.
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Putridity, from the avolation of its products, promotes levity, and that in proportion as its increase surpasses that of the general acid; and it is not until the action of the acetous becomes languid, that the putrid process gains the ascendency, when it is then difficult to overcome.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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Despite the undercurrent of levity, the activists were quite serious in their intent.
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When an awkward silence falls over the room, he tries to inject levity.
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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This poor attempt at levity earned me the usual blank look of incomprehension, so I was forced to abandon the oblique approach and ask directly about the offensive effluvium befouling our happy home.
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That said, it was well researched and balanced with just enough savage irony to break the gravity with levity.
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Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.
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I am sorry to hurt any man's feelings, and to brush away the magnificent fabric of levity and gaiety that he has reared; but I accuse our minister of honesty and diligence; I deny that he is careless of rash.
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One difference, however, is the note of realism and levity that tempers every show.
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The moments before such games should be focused and tense yet in his dressing room there was levity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore, to distinguish between what appertains to the primary polarity, Levity-Gravity, on the one hand, and their visible effects in the secondary polarity of the colours, on the other, we shall henceforth reserve the term darkness and, with it, lightness for instances where the perceptible components of the respective colours are concerned, while speaking of Dark and Light where reference is made to the generating primary polarity.
Man or Matter
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I know that even then, had I answered him differently the matter would not have ended as it did, but my spirit rose proud and defiant, and I said with a tone of mock levity, 'How long a journey do you purpose taking, Mr. Blake? is it to the grist-mill, or to the sawmill, which is a little farther away?'
Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past
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One difference, however, is the note of realism and levity that tempers every show.
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It was cruel levity in you to do that.
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A bit of levity is good for ones soul occasionally.
Letter From San Cristobal
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Mr Harrel, with his usual levity and carelessness, laughed at the charge, but denied any belief in her displeasure, and affected to think she was merely playing the coquet, while Sir Robert was not the less her decided choice.
Cecilia
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The levity was perfectly timed and dispelled the worries of the group.
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
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The graceful levity of the nation could not easily err in this direction, nor tolerate such deliration in the greatest of men.
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In fewer than 100 pages, we travel from a haunted garden to the very gates of hell, via ominous encounters, portentous conversations and moments of absurd levity.
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Obviously the studmuffin didn't share her problem with inappropriate levity.
KISS AN ANGEL
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The game's biggest weakness is its lack of any levity or humor to counterpoint the story's overwhelmingly serious tone.
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But such moments of levity were rare.
Times, Sunday Times
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An atmosphere of levity does not conduce to the best operation of Planchette.
Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
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Wherefore the accused, if innocent, may condone the injury done to himself, particularly if the accusation were made not calumniously but out of levity of mind.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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I'm breaking into what John Norton would call my irrepressible levity.
Mike Fletcher A Novel
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There is no excuse or reason for levity or humour on a day like yesterday.
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With its moonlit beams and gentle currents, Adventure is an addictive album, deftly illustrating that great emotional strength can be wrought from an attitude of restraint and levity.
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Behind it all the beat of the drum caught the levity of a village celebration or the thunder of wildlife on the plains.
Times, Sunday Times
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I just want you to know the consequences of levity in this matter.
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Luckily, some levity is emerging amid the grimness and serious analysis.
Times, Sunday Times
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As "unseriousness" carries with it a pejorative tone, it is not the same thing as "lack of seriousness" in most domains of life where humor and levity is highly valued.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
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There was, on occasion, a note of levity in police actions.
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Obviously the studmuffin didn't share her problem with inappropriate levity.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Warm reds, oranges and yellows fade to washed-out blues and muted greens, as the situations change and soulful jazz underscores moments of levity and pain.
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If it were not that the tone, in some parts, has more of riancy, even of levity, than we could have expected!
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Everson dropped the usual ‘Humbly report Your Levity’ and spoke to the wizard in very familiar terms.
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intrepidity," which I translate for myself to mean the "frivolous levity," of the government in suggesting such matters.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
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Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it. Drew Barrymore
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There's only so much levity that's appropriate at a moment like this.
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Before entering into a discussion of the question, which naturally arises at this point, as to how levity and gravity by their two possible ways of interaction - 'sulphurous' or 'saline' - determine the properties of so-called positive and negative electricity, we shall first study the third mode of generating electricity, namely, by electromagnetic induction.
Man or Matter
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His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.
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Perhaps some levity was needed after such a serious Wednesday.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the death of Brian Johnston he seemed to abandon levity and good humour, on air at least, alternating between choleric disdain for the players he thought not good enough and an unsatisfiable appetite for contrasting the modern game in a stridently unfavourable light with the one in which he had made his name.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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Our levity turned to fear a few minutes later on Interstate 20 as a car raced up from behind us and began to tailgate us.
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That's why excessive laughter and misplaced levity can lead to immoral behavior.
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Maybe it was too much levity given the subject matter.
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As bad and as damaging as this in-house report is, we are told that it was all a matter of levity and humour.
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Though labelled ‘light comedy’, no trace of levity could be detected anywhere in the festival.
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Splinter Cell series, the mixture of intimidation and levity in impromptu dialogue manages to make a human character out of three green lights and five feet 11 inches of bestubbled meat - it is a little lost in grim'n'gritty successor
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
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But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity.
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He had no patience with levity from the lips of softness.
THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
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We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety; the Lydian, buxomness and freedom; the Æolic, sweet stillness and quiet composure; the Phrygian, jollity and youthful levity; the Ionic is a stiller of storms and disturbances arising from passion; and why may we not reasonably suppose, that those whose speech naturally runs into the notes peculiar to any of these moods, are likewise in nature hereunto congenerous?
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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On this latter point he felt almost certain, knowing her freedom from levity of character.
