Sentence examples for a less weighty from inspiring English sources

In that sense it is perhaps a less weighty affair.

I would try them again with a less weighty sauce.

But in the end they settled on Mr Köhler, a less weighty figure than Mr Schäuble but one who is acceptable to the Free Democrats.

A less weighty confession, written in cursive amid a background of markered-in yellow puffs, admits, "I lick the inside of microwave popcorn bags".

There is inevitably a less weighty sound overall with a reduced orchestra, but the balance among strings, winds and brass was impressively well proportioned.

Last year, Congress and the Clinton administration changed the designation to "normal trade relations," a less weighty phrase thought to be less politically charged.

But that doesn't make the book any less weighty or challenging.

Mr. Issawi, the tribal leader who couldn't win a seat, ran on the Tawafaq list; he was bested by a much less weighty cousin, Rafiie al-Issawi, a Falluja hospital director famous for negotiating peace with the American Marines, who ran on Iraqiya's ticket.

Today, students propose their own themes, and the focus seems a lot less weighty: does crocheting really constitute a common thread (or should that be yarn)?

Don't be fooled by the fact that a lot of this music originated in Broadway shows a little less weighty than Wagnerian operas.

Yesterday, the son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and convert to Catholicism was toying with a somewhat less weighty issue: how to balance his modest black-garbed life as a Jesuit scholar with the red-decked ceremony of his new role as a cardinal.