It can be more lighthearted than the term baofahu, literally "break-out household," which suggests upstarts who have suddenly struck it rich but lack culture and sophistication.
While Mr. Ryan played the hammer of Thor, pounding President Obama in unusually caustic terms, Mr. Romney allowed a lighthearted, humanizing glimpse of himself in an interview for ABC's "Live!" morning show.
To Mr. Jaffee, the book's lighthearted vignettes hardly compensate for the absence of "ice-box drawings," his term for the well-preserved artifacts that products of stable homes — with magnets on their refrigerators — give biographers to chew on.
Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette, always well-matched leads in terms of bravura and spirit, understand the difference between lighthearted and lightheaded.
Generally speaking, mature people are more open to "serious", long-term relationships, while less-mature people tend to favor casual, lighthearted relationships.
The entries in this lighthearted compendium are words that various cultures use to describe emotions, such as toska, a Russian term describing insatiable longing.
It was a lighthearted punchline, a word so harmless in the context of the film that it simply became a term of endearment for a token white guy.
The term "social practice" refers to an increasingly popular form of public art that takes a participatory and often lighthearted approach to urgent social and political issues.
Be humorous and lighthearted.
