Sentence examples for carried lightly from inspiring English sources

His sound on tenor, soulful and centered, still suggests the John Coltrane of, say, "Crescent," but he has internalized that sound so fully that it feels like his own, even on a Coltrane-ish ballad like "Selah (My Refuge)." This is what a dynamic young jazz group can sound like when history's burden is carried lightly but honestly.

The history that was heavy in Fleck's arms, he carries lightly in his heart.

It shows bravery, too, as it's not the sort of thing one carries lightly.

They are the tools we should carry lightly, guided with vigilance by school leaders.

Kidron, who carries lightly the title Baroness for her pioneering work not just in making such films as the BBC's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit but in spreading the narrative wonder of great movies to schoolkids across the country through her FilmClub, says that many of her friends have said the same thing.

One can easily imagine more turgid versions of this two-hander that will surely be done in time; it's not easy to carry lightly a text prone to discussion of "radiating... effulgence" and the "multifarious complexities and nuances of the psyche".

Together they've made an album of duets that's neither kitschy nor cutesy, but full of sincere, deceptively gentle songs that carry lightly the pain in their lyrics.

Yet they carry it lightly.

What else do we carry so lightly that means so much?

The psychopath talks "entertainingly," Cleckley explained, and is "brilliant and charming," but nonetheless "carries disaster lightly in each hand".

10 45 A.M.--Out on the choppy Canalazzo, among the vaporetti and scows and barges and the motoscafi, the black ferries, called traghetti carry their lightly swaying passengers.