levity

Still, some within and around the court saw him as the court’s glue, bringing levity in his interactions with his colleagues and avoiding hard-edge commentary in his opinions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

In our dire age, a little bit of levity can often feel like a wager, staking your bets on an audience’s bandwidth for fun.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

“And when we needed a moment of levity, Glenn was not afraid to come forward and put a smile on people’s face.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

"No matter how difficult times are, I believe that humans always manage to find flickers of levity and deep wells of love," she said.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

They both laughed, which made Mark wonder where all the sudden levity had come from.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

P.S.  I hope these foolish letters don’t cost you and Morton much: I always pay 1s. 7d. for them here: which ought to carry such levities to Hindostan without further charge.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright

Thou must know that, with all my levities and backslidings, I am no coxcomb.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

I would I could see the face of him at the thought of a long-legged lass in such a predicament! to say nothing of the levities of your affectionate daughter, and his respectful friend.’

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

I wonder if, in the midst of the stammered and blurted incoherences, the lapses and levities, of this quaint book, a sort of "orientation," as the theologians say now, has emerged at all?

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

But to whatever levities he has been betrayed, it does not appear that his principles were ever corrupted, or that he ever lost his belief of revelation.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson