Sentence examples for but levity from inspiring English sources

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But levity never lasts for long in the mucky wilderness.

His theorising here is playful, delightfully provisional: lightness may be unbearable as a condition of being, but levity is the leaven of his writing.

The hero of the earlier novel was also a brooder, but levity was provided by his (and seemingly Mr O'Neill's) love of cricket and its power to create a community.

There are moments of humour in this epic script about family, migration, prejudice and political betrayal, but levity is not enough to give the story emotional charge and narrative pace.

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That is true in terms of farce, but not levity.

But the levity is tensioned across cavities of anxiety and displacement.

But the levity vanished when the two men turned to the polarizing legacy of Mr. Giuliani.

There's talk of kicking alien ass, but the levity of Smith and Goldblum's buddy routine is beyond Usher and Hemsworth.

"But enough of levity".

But is that levity a bit of a problem?

You're probably not in the mood for levity, but I'm only half-joking.

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