Sentence examples for light-mindedness from inspiring English sources

Earlier in her writing career, some critics mistook this quality of light in her for lightness, light-mindedness, on the general principle that comedy - a form that turns on misunderstanding and confusion, but ends in reconciliation, of however tenuous a kind - is less serious than tragedy, and that the personal life is of lesser importance than the public one.

So much of what he does is potentially trivial, and yet the braininess he brings to it invariably absolves it from the charge of light-mindedness.

The supposed light-mindedness and frivolity of birdy activity is mirrored today in the name of the popular Twitter site, with "tweet" being the term for a tiny info-tidbit.

He suffers from an illness of the mind-light-mindedness.

"All I want to do is to forget," he wrote in his diary as 1939 turned into 1940, "and have no arc-lights of practical-mindedness turned on to my loathing of this Second Great War, by which I am being reduced to an impotent absurdity".

After half an hour I put it down to his normal absent-mindedness and switched the light off myself.

The racist comments shed new light on complaints about the "narrow mindedness" of the industry made by Ms Campbell three years ago.

Yet for all the sensitivity of their relations, Mr. Mehta recounts them with humor, tough-mindedness and a willingness to make light of himself.

In it, she includes a number of examples of initiatives that promote bridging our divides so we can approach one another from a place of open-mindedness, curiosity, and recognition of the light in every human being.

And they reveal unexpected attitudes and reversals of stereotype; narrow-mindedness alternating with compassion; the darkness and the light of small town life.

As an example of her remarkable open-mindedness, she rejects the specifics of Descartes' hypothesis in light of Huygen's demonstrations that it does not square with observed facts, while also allowing that "it cannot be legitimately concluded that a vortex, or several vortices, conceived of in a different way, cannot be the cause of these movements" (IP §65).