Sentence examples for less lighthearted from inspiring English sources

In Metuchen, N.J., Jim Kimball was less lighthearted.

But it winds up being far less lighthearted than it looks at first glance.

Bilic's tone was less lighthearted when the mystery of Diafra Sakho's absence was brought up.

Interviews over, the two men gave the crowd what it had been chanting for and embraced, but Federer, who will face Juan Martín Del Potro or Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals, has less lighthearted moments ahead.

Less lighthearted was seminar, which on this day involved mulling over a densely written essay by the Marxist political theorist Fredric Jameson on the meaning of self in a postmodern world.

Eclair moans about men and makes oh-so-true observations about women in the best twentysomething style, but what begins as a nappy novel stretches towards less lighthearted middle age.

It's the first time she seems anything less than lighthearted about the frivolous fun of a little smoothing and erasing.

Lessing's lighthearted yet profound questioning of severe codes made his play the first work in German literature with a significant contemporary content.

It was decided to balance this revolutionary work with less monumental pieces: lighthearted variations, lieder and an earlier sonata.

Sometimes called linkbait, the word "clickbait" describes online content which is judged to be mostly lighthearted, less than robust and primarily focused towards hoovering up traffic.

It's those dichotomies — the split between good and evil — that make the book intermittently interesting to me, and less so its lighthearted tone.