Sentence examples for light confection from inspiring English sources

The apotheosis of the group's style is its breakout single "You're a Jerk," a light confection of danceable braggadocio.

The work contrasts sharply with Balanchine's highly formalized tutus and hair buns in Bizet's Symphony in C, which is cast as a light confection.

It's a light confection, but Porter's cheery delivery is deceptive as she can be deliciously cutting; her account of meeting a (now famous) sex pest when she was a young TV producer in Manchester is told with relish.

Similarly, in talking about the success of his two productions, which could not be more dissimilar -- Cole Porter's light confection "Kiss Me, Kate and Michael Fraynn's weighty new play about nuclear physics, "Copenhagen" -- Mr. Blakemore, who turns 72 next month, sounded merely pleased that the shows managed to find their way to Broadway within months of each other.

A few light confections can be lovely, but too many in one night may give you a stomachache.

The eating, though, is gratifyingly easy: when sweetly garnished, sfenj are light confections of which just one is rarely enough.

Desserts were as carefully prepared as other courses, the star being warm caramel-apple and pancetta bread pudding, a bouncy-light confection served with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.

The Adventures of Bert Allan Ahlberg and Raymond Briggs (Viking, £9.99) This collaboration between two heavyweights of modern children's literature turns out to be a droll, feather-light confection about Bert, a fictional version of Michael Crawford's Frank in Some Mothers Do Have 'Em.

A much lighter confection was Rob Long's Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke (Bloomsbury £9.99), an account of a year in the life of this US TV comedy writer as he attempts to get his new show on the air and keep it there.

I want her to get it for something equally valuable yet rarely valued and just as hard: pulling off feather-light confections where she beguilingly distracts us not only from the holes in the script but from the miseries, large or small, in our own lives.

Program it into your listening when you need a contemporary, breezy, light pop confection... Sure, you are being manipulated by the corporate music establishment, but the song is fun".