making light

We are making light of a grave issue, and turning private pain into public entertainment.

The rap sheet on this commercial: racial stereotyping and making light of violence towards women.

They love nothing better than making light of all the trumped up celebrity worship around the royal family.

Rick Santorum did a good job making light of a recent Freudian slip par excellence.

Making light of anything that involves “America the Beautiful” is all downside with no upside.

"It didn't snow when I came out," said Hartledon, shaking himself, and making light of the matter.

This was the only thing not quite straight that Nick found in him—his making light of his young friend's flying to and fro.

So far from making light of her scholarship, he frequently accepted her as a partner in translations from the Latin.

Always—if not worse, they said, making light of it, with sarcastic humor against the Risveglio.

Drawing her inside their chamber, he broke the news to her soothingly and tenderly, making light of it.