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a mild reasonableness
when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light
How To Use sweetness and light In A Sentence
- It doesn't help that she looks like a complete pushover, her heart-shaped face, blue eyes and perfect Cupid's-bow mouth radiating sweetness and light.
- American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
- They were all sweetness and light when they were on top, but now that their little dynasty is threatened, they have become barroom brawlers. Moore: Clinton is trying to scare voters
- Were the inhabitants of Olduvai Gorge, or for that matter, the Neanderthals, all sweetness and light -- charitable to their neighbors and respectful of their environment? The Real End of the World
- With the beaming patriarch, the tolerant kuia, the benign figures from the afterlife (including a stereotypical errant male) and the quota of cute talking animals (though only the reader gets to hear them), the story is at times overrun with syrupy sweetness and light.
- It has not all been sweetness and light between him and the Prime Minister.
- It is not all happy-clappy sweetness and light, though. The Sun
- Visitors walk along corridors above it as if hoisted by sheer sweetness and light. Times, Sunday Times
- Visitors walk along corridors above it as if hoisted by sheer sweetness and light. Times, Sunday Times
- when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light