levity

"We felt there needed to be a sense of relief and levity for the audience. So, we can ease in and out of it. Otherwise, it's a lot."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The crowd was sullen, and the only levity came from my boys, 2 and 3, running up and down the hall, hiding and entertaining themselves with a wheelchair.

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

As a result, he injected levity into a role that could have come across as purely unsympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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

Once or twice he sighed at Wayne Shandon's failure to respond to his levities; and when he felt particularly unappreciated he carried his dimpling personality to the bunk house where he was hailed with delight.

From The Short Cut by Frank Tenney Johnson

Many simple natural affections were by them almost represented as sinful, while they looked upon the customary diversions in the light of unholy levities, and upon the old holiday practices as traditions quite heathenish.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

She neither smiled when he was witty, nor looked shocked at his levities.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

"Are the mere levities with which I amused an hour to be recorded against me as principles?"

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

Their selection has uniformly tended either to inform and enlighten the understanding, to inculcate the purest lessons of morality, or to unbend the mind with innocent levities.

From The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository by Various