The eight-part suite Mr. Taylor has fashioned out of eight songs appears lighthearted, but the lyrics are often bitter.
Rich appears lighthearted in a video from last week where he lights up a joint and yells about "hope for a day when people do not fear the government because the government fears the people!" while wearing a Ron Paul T-shirt (no relation).
In 1936 she appeared in two lighthearted movies, "Three Cheers for Love" and "College Holiday," and landed her first serious role, in "The Last Train From Madrid," released the following year, with Dorothy Lamour and Lew Ayres.
In the next decade, Grant appeared in Hitchcock's lighthearted and stylish caper To Catch a Thief (1955), a film noted for its ad-libbed scenes, rife with double-entendres, between Grant and costar Grace Kelly.
After portraying a plucky television producer in the comedy Morning Glory (2010), she appeared in Woody Allen's lighthearted Midnight in Paris (2011).
The Justice League film footage was an unexpected highlight, showing off what appeared to be a more lighthearted script than the director Zack Snyder's most recent film, Batman v Superman, and featuring the Flash actor Ezra Miller in a role not too dissimilar from the part Tom Holland played as Spider-Man in the most recent Captain America film, Civil War.
In the lighthearted Hope Springs (2012), he appeared as a marriage counselor to a couple played by Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones.
At his death, Mr. Jenkins was the consulting editor for Columbia Journalism Review, where his lighthearted (though serious-minded) column, Language Corner, appeared from 1996 until his death.
Harrison also appeared opposite Stefanie Powers in "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.," a lighthearted spy spoof that aired on NBC in 1966-67.
To the casual eye "Manhattan Within" appears to be a lighthearted and straightforward illustration.
