I don't use the word idyllic lightly, but floating down the Dordogne in the absolute solitude that descends on the river in mid-September, comes close.
The drudgery ahead — peeling potatoes, frying, feeding, washing up — lifts from the evening as lightly as a floating cloud.
Here is Mr. Callahan's baritone voice, floating lightly in middle range and making quick and confident deep dives, putting strange bends on a phrase.
Mr. Orr's former masters at La Grenouille would beam in approval at his quenelles, the merest puffs of pike mousse floating lightly in an almost obscenely voluptuous crayfish sauce.
Bassist Ayse Hassan and drummer Fay Milton join Thompson, swiftly followed by A Dead Forest Index – Sam Sherry sits at a harmonium and brother, Adam, hunches over his guitar, his voice floating lightly over a typically haunting soundscape.
It may be shocking to think this (I am shocked as I think it), but one can imagine a still more salvational outcome: Anne Frank's diary burned, vanished, lost — saved from a world that made of it all things, some of them true, while floating lightly over the heavier truth of named and inhabited evil.
She would like to think that she had, that she had kept her wits about her and laughed, kept things floating along lightly, the encounter accidental and jolly.
Dorais predicted that Baugh "will do until some supernatural passer comes along". And this: "That ball he threw to Tinsley for the touchdown was floating so lightly that a babe could have plucked it". And more: "Outside of his passing, his best point is his defensive play.
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Defined and defining herself by her relationships with these two larger-than-life women, the narrator of Swing Time observes her world with a kind of Fred Astaire like quality, dancing lightly with a beautiful, floating, intelligent prose.
