light-heartedness

Asked about her own leadership style, Badenoch said she aspired to be a "fun" leader and would try to bring some "humour" and "light-heartedness" to her approach.

"Who, after last night's scenes, can still maintain that we are a humdrum people, incapable of the light-heartedness of some other nations?" he proudly wrote.

"I have always taken it in my stride and being a big comedy fan, I have always tried to see the funnier side of it and the light-heartedness, obviously there are days where I feel blinder than I am," he said.

The light-heartedness in the comic books is also a fundamental part of the couple's relationship.

“You give it up very gleefully,” said he; “I don’t quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing. What aim, what purpose, what ambition in life have you now?”