Sentence examples for lightens from inspiring English sources

As ever, Brown lightens the whole effect with sly touches of humour: where you might expect to see lifebelts he has hung a row of scurvy-beating cabbages.

THE twinkling stars above the passengers gradually fade away as the night sky lightens and the sun begins to rise.

A 10% fall in the real now lightens its debt burden, lowering the ratio of net debt to GDP by 1.3 percentage points.

But divvied up across Britain's immigrants too the load lightens to £21,800.

They seem like emissaries from the land of the dead and being in their presence is certainly not a cosy experience.A delightful bronze chariot briefly lightens the mood.

It is ironic that it should be old-fashioned voice that lightens the darkness in fibre.

Too often directors turn Paulina into a hectoring harridan; Ms Cusack instead is steely but compassionate, and her manifest devotion to Leontes helps make him all the more pitiable and lovable.The play's mood lightens when the action moves to Bohemia, which Mr Mendes depicts as a fantasia in the American south.

The film retains Kubrick's intensity, but lightens his darkness with one of Mr Spielberg's characteristic cuddly creatures, an intelligent electronic teddy bear.

We learn little of Hayek the man or his private life, though the spite of academic combat lightens the going, especially in the footnotes.Punning on his own title, Mr Caldwell ruefully admits that charting the Hayek archipelago is a challenge.

This fine work of art, or giant-sized perceptual toy, lights up, and lightens up, its venerable surroundings.

It also lightens the upfront financial burden on banks.