"I'm so happy I can be the first Chinese player to come to a final — I always do the first one!" she said in a lighthearted, courtside interview in which she joked about losing sleep on the eve of the match because her coach-husband Shan Jiang was snoring.
The author of two books of poetry won the Pamet River Prize in 2015 and hosts the Poetry Gods podcast with Jon Sands and José Olivarez, where she conducts lighthearted interviews with contemporary poets.
Each of the slickly produced short videos features Mr. Bugnah on camera, narrating the reports and interacting with his interview subjects in a lighthearted but impassioned style not unlike that of the American filmmaker Michael Moore.
Ms. Pirro showed a lighthearted side, too, making hummus for the interview and autographing a photo of her and a reporter.
While Mr. Ryan played the hammer of Thor, pounding President Obama in unusually caustic terms, Mr. Romney allowed a lighthearted, humanizing glimpse of himself in an interview for ABC's "Live!" morning show.
In an interview Monday with NBC News, Panetta gave a lighthearted explanation for his straightforward manner.
Mitt Romney — newly professed fan of the iPhone, Snooki and sleeping in "as little as possible" — offered a lighthearted, humanizing glimpse of himself Friday morning in an interview with ABC's Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, set to air Tuesday.
During a recent telephone interview, a reporter suggested to Borders, in a lighthearted way, that that was indeed the situation.
In recent interviews Kitty Pryde seems to be taking a lighthearted and casual approach to her craft.
In each weekly episode, Poehler interviews a pre-teen girl with "a unique talent, community interest or point of view" in a lighthearted spirit of humor and fun.
