Sentence examples for acted lightly from inspiring English sources

"Quartet" is a beautifully acted, lightly comic and pretty slender film.

I have not taken the decision to act lightly.

He only succeeded in getting Comey to confirm that the agency doesn't act lightly.

Obama's cabinet did not act lightly, but made a thorough analysis and came to the same conclusions that many of the actors of civil society in Cuba, and the people in general, have been raising.

Abusers do not undertake these criminal acts lightly, and victims of these crimes suffer greatly.

"I vow to tread lightly, act kindly, and explore mindfully.

To require that the regulating body of the state be advised of a proposed change seriously affecting transportation conditions is not such an obvious interference with interstate commerce that, on application for a preliminary injunction, the act should lightly be assumed to be beyond the power of the state.

The burns resulted in a fine-scale mosaic that included un-burned and lightly burned areas that acted as refuge for mountainsnails.

I have never known a woman who has taken that choice lightly: who has not acted with an astonishing bravery when choosing to have an abortion.

For all the vilification, though, Samuels got off relatively lightly compared with other lawyers who have acted for controversial clients.

"I think they have both acted on principle - nobody does this kind of thing lightly," he said.