Sentence examples for levity at from inspiring English sources

Actually, there was not much levity at all until the first miner was lifted to safety.

There was no levity at all when we were shooting Foxcatcher.

And they wanted some levity at a time when everything was getting a little heavy.

Despite the levity, at its heart Mr. Rushdie's appearance in New Delhi on Saturday night remained a battle cry.

John L. Smith, the new coach at Arkansas, provided a few moments of levity at his news conference.

There's nothing there to shoot at.' " It was a rare moment of levity at an otherwise matter-of-fact news conference, one in which the Argentine, speaking in Spanish, declined to dip his toe into the Tiger trap.

"TOMATO LATKES," a Hanukkah celebration with Len Levitt and the Levity Puppets, Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 42123337.

Sometimes he does this to indicate the character's attempt at levity — Guru Pitka making a joke at someone else's expense rather than Mr. Myers making a joke at Guru Pitka's — but the distinction hardly matters.

This time, there has been no such attempt at levity.

On "Eleven," even Ms. McBride's attempts at levity come with doses of darkness.

In so many studied efforts at levity, lapses are all the more glaring.