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Noël Coward's 1941 play Blithe Spirit is a comedy about what?

blithe

[blahyth, blahyth] / blaɪð, blaɪθ /


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Morgan was blithe about the impact of endorsements.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

The blithe and often zany choreography unfolded intriguingly as its asymmetrical configurations—involving four men, three women and three folding chairs—kept the whole theatrical affair deftly off balance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

That may give these companies an extra temporary boost, but consumers might not be so blithe, Malek warns.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

In his few conversations with Emily, he’s often blithe, focused more on the inconveniences prison life poses or whether Maisie will remember him than on what his wife and daughter must deal with.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

“Supper? At Old Chao’s house? Sure,” he said, blithe as a new frog.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blither is that?

From Time ● Mar. 1, 2014

Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.

From Time Magazine Archive

They blither me to stop, and I signalled back to ask their reason, and I’m dashed if they didn’t put a shot across my bows.

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

There was not in all Scotland, just then, a blither or happier woman than Bertha Morton.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans

Ms. Bouder, now often so mannered in ballets by George Balanchine, was at her freest and blithest.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018

If you are late for “Amy,” a new documentary about Amy Winehouse, you will miss her at her blithest.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015

Though its social scope is narrower than Hardy’s, you do come away from it with a true sense of the shrouded world that he devised, where fate could frown upon even the blithest day.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2015

The blithest of the war-inspired songs, now up among the bestsellers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amidst the revel thou wast gay, The blithest with the song!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various


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