Sentence examples for degree of levity from inspiring English sources
He also brought a certain degree of levity.
By all accounts, Toussaint himself was a jubilant presence in New Orleans, a city that has always instilled a degree of levity in its sons and daughters.
And though his pedigree suggests this to be unlikely, it also fortifies him with an important degree of levity, because his career will not be defined by it.
One would expect a memorial service for Mr. Bellow, who died in April at age 89, to have a degree of levity, and indeed the service at the 92nd Street Y yesterday afternoon did.
Klopp clearly enjoyed himself on the touchline in the closing stages and he brought a degree of levity into his post-match press conference, even offering up a suggestion for the top of journalists' pieces.
GUARDIAN LIVE GAME "Nerdy Gales", Center Line Soccer, San Jose: Before facing the Chicago Fire a fortnight ago, Steven Lenhart Wig Night led to a degree of levity for the pre-game team lineup picture and a surreal Harpo Marx ambiance in the stadium.
The exasperation level was heightening, and though I'd treated this whole episode with a certain degree of levity-the same method I'd always used no matter the danger of the situation-I just could always think more clearly with a smile on my face, I sensed in Doctor Foster a looming breaking point.
And though the drama was devoid of any degree of humour or levity to a degree that made it seem almost parodic, even as the story of despair, loneliness, desperation and corruption unfolded, and our "hero" - an entirely compelling central performance by Andrew Garfield - hurtled towards his inevitable end, the film somehow oozed humanity.
The degree of disapprobation with which we ought to mark the vices of levity, the vices which are apt to arise from great prosperity, and from the excess of gaiety and good humour, seems to constitute the principal distinction between those two opposite schemes or systems.
"It can be a moment of levity.
