lightness

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Lightness and sorrow combine in a moment of exquisite fragility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The name came from a story one member had written, riffing on the title of Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The author Milan Kundera, best known for his novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” which was adapted into a film, died on Tuesday at 94.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

His best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2023

Others, in their convalescent State, complained of such a Giddiness, and Lightness of the Head, that they could neither walk nor stand; others, of a Dimness of the Eyes.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald