But Mr. Rouse's new disc treads lightly, using gentle grooves (some inspired by old soul and soft-rock) to propel airy, hummable songs that are almost -- but not quite -- as slight as they first seem.
After studies showed that sensationalized accounts of suicide inspired imitators, journalists began to tread lightly.
The accents that accompanied the tender, lightly browned pan-seared sea scallops were equally inspired: fingerling potatoes, fiddlehead ferns (now out of season, replaced with asparagus) and corn coulis.
Her Swedish roots show in dishes like exceptionally silky gravlax, pickled herrings served with a healthy shot of aquavit, and Jansson's Temptation, an inspired Nordic version of scalloped potatoes that incorporates lightly cured anchovies.
Even better are the lightly funky "I Can Help the Next in Line" (Week 9), inspired by customer-service patter, and "No Cops" (Week 3), a winsome ransom note that doubles as a band jingle.
A hypnotic attraction seems to have inspired Tóibín's extensive, misty, and intricate work of reconstruction, a marvel of lightly worn research and modulated tone.
He inspired our fantasies, but he also inspired our sense of protectiveness; he wore history lightly, but he would never have the privilege of discarding it entirely.
Later, he inspired the character of Sun Yuin-loong in Hahn's book "Steps of the Sun," a lightly fictionalized account of an American woman's experiences as the concubine of an opium-smoking Chinese aristocrat.
In Paris she read Sartre and Beauvoir and saw works by Brancusi, whose limestone carving "The Kiss" inspired her early relief print of the same title (made from two side-by-side blocks of lightly inked wood).
He did after all lightly trace Gandhi's influence on subsequent generations for the students, explaining how "the non-violent movement in India" inspired Dr. King and César Chávez.
