levity

“He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliché; mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now he's so angry moments of levity actually cause him pain; gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.”

Griffin knows how to make a meal out of her trauma, expertly peppering a whole lot of levity into the darkness.

With her charisma, humor, and entertaining confessionals, Nguyen brought a levity to the show that not all cheftestants manage to achieve.

I think you actually need moments of levity when you’re tackling quite dark and heavy themes, to allow the audience to take a breath when you are watching something that’s heavy.

The second moment of levity, on the eve of the Dodgers-Padres best-of-five series, came a few hours later.