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

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

On being asked by a pious official if he really knew God’s judgment, he is said to have responded, “He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

In one blithe sentence, Shafik assumes into legitimacy the major institutions of liberal modernity and declares them partners in a cooperative project, without inquiring into whether or how these institutions might be democratically justified.

From Slate ● May 9, 2024

The Homfoot boys walked blithe and barefoot through the snowdrifts.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

But I tried with Berlin, and found it a drearier Boston; with Paris, and found it a blonder and blither Boston; with London, and found it sombrely irrelevant and incomparable.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

I ha' suffered it these thirty years and more, and 'tain't worth while, for the few years that's left, makin' a blub and a blither about it.

From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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

At kirk she won the auld folks' love, At dance she was the young men's een; She was the blithest aye o' the blithe, At wooster-trystes or Hallowe'en.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers


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