Sentence examples for lighthearted when from inspiring English sources

Still, how can workouts be lighthearted when the point is to make quantifiable strides?

The reception was hardly lighthearted when the real Commodore Perry arrived off this port city on Tokyo Bay on July 8 , 1853 and forced Japan to open up to international trade and relations.

Helfrich kept his tone lighthearted when asked this week if he was having fun as the Ducks' coach.

Bilic's tone was less lighthearted when the mystery of Diafra Sakho's absence was brought up.

Grafton's Kinsey Milhone books, though sometimes mistaken for lighthearted when compared to all the testosterone-laden stuff out there, really do belong in the SoCal noir tradition.

Ponsot's best work finds her down-to-earth, either mordant or lighthearted; when she reaches for the sky, she can trip herself up.

But he was lighthearted and earnest when it came to answering the morning's most memorable question — whether, knowing what he knows now, he would take back his lavish 60th birthday party, which reportedly cost over $3 million and included a performance by Rod Stewart.

A marathon in Des Moines had a much more lighthearted turn when its winner was delayed when he had to wait for a passing train.

For the most part, his interview was lighthearted, but when he was asked how he thought the fight would go, he became serious.

Hunter took a lighthearted approach when discussing the team's first appearance in the N.C.A.A. tournament, pointing out that the university's initials are the same forward and backward.

On the day itself, however, they realized the surprise was a lighthearted one when Dr. Fialk handed out black-satin masks and herded them, blindfolded, into the party area.