Sentence examples for lightweight reading from inspiring English sources

The 290 colleges that have adopted extra-curricular common readings have, with only a handful of exceptions, settled for pretty lightweight reading.

It has gone from being a jolly, lightweight read, to some reasonably heavy stuff where the humour is derived from the character and situation rather than gags.

"I see nothing wrong with this – except perhaps that some young women seeking a lightweight beach read might get unexpectedly very depressed," she said.

"If we are going to extend gender stereotypes all the way to their worst place, it's celebrity, lightweight — that reads as in some ways feminine and inconsequential or not perceived as a real threat," Ms. Dominus says.

In an era when even thousand-page books like "Infinite Jest" can be read on lightweight cellphones, the beach read is truly whatever we want it to be, and that's a wonderfully democratic thing.

Jack Glass is a lightweight but enjoyable read, commendably different from anything else.

But audio books, once seen as a kind of oral CliffsNotes for reading lightweights, have seduced members of a literate but busy crowd by allowing them to read while doing something else.

He sleeps with so many well-known writers and artists that this crackling if lightweight memoir can read less like a prelude to "And the Band Played On," Randy Shilts's stately book about the early days of AIDS, than an all-boy update of "I'm With the Band," Pamela Des Barres's trippy and picaresque rock groupie memoir.

(If you insist on having the pictures and diagrams in those books, too, perhaps you have to wait until 2017. By then you'll be able to carry around the complete text for all the volumes in the Library of Congress). To complete this vision, of course, we'll need a lightweight, easy-to-read screen to display text.

If the usual summertime cultural fare — pops concerts, lightweight novels for beach reading, escapist movies — has you hankering for something more substantive and stimulating, head over to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

One name however had no championship after it, but it read, "Coming Lightweight Champ".