Guard Nate Robinson was especially grateful for the lighter atmosphere.
We want to laugh at sports, to look for the lighter side.
For the lighter moments, every Filipino home seems to have a karaoke microphone, with Sinatra and Elvis impersonations particular favorites.
He recommended that BAE continue with current orders for Type-26 frigates but indicated that future orders for the lighter Type-31 could go elsewhere.
To American planners of the current war, Iraq looked like the perfect theatre for the lighter and faster military forces they favored.
For a film so concerned with its characters' inner lives, there's a fundamental disconnect going on here – enough to make you yearn for the lighter touch of the Marvel films.
Psychologically, as Phillip Hodson, of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, puts it, "they don't frighten the horses".Demand for the lighter talking cures is strong, accounting for much of the growth in provision.
Although the quality goes from side-splitting to simplistic, the show on the whole provides a happy evening for those who yearn for the lighter side of the news and derive pleasure from seeing the mighty made ridiculous.
She may be known for her dramatic roles – including on TV's Sea Patrol and Blue Heelers, and in films like Little Fish – but the actor Lisa McCune says she always looks for the lighter moments in the characters she takes on.
A word for the grace notes, too: Bruno's manicure from his mother; his hound at the top of the stairs, his nail-biting grope for the lighter dropped down a drain, spliced with Guy's epic, against-the-clock tennis match, which must be completed before Bruno plants it as incriminating evidence.
Believing that both she and Joseph "hailed from the dark side" (though we also come to see her appetite for the lighter side -- she writes beauty articles to earn money, watches "Beverly Hills 90210" reruns and paints her loft entirely pink), the narrator becomes depressed after he gives her the brushoff.
