Sentence examples for make light of something from inspiring English sources

He rejects all claims of a whitewash or complacency: "It wouldn't be in our interests to make light of something that was there.

"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," he wrote, adding: "We also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies, [but I] do not want to make light of something that some construe as misogynistic.

"You just don't go into a geographic area and make light of something like this".

You try to make light of something because it scares you.

So, why do we joke and make light of something that is killing our friends and family at epidemic rates?

"I think it's disappointing that they would make light of something as important as protecting life," he said.

"All that is a way of making light of something that's really hard," she said.

Correction: there's a Telegraph blog, humourous in tone, which says: "Hey, we all screw up", thereby making light of something serious.

When Evan is hanging out one day with his sort-of friend, Jared Kleinman (the well-cast Will Roland), a jokester, Jared makes light of something, and Connor reacts by striking Evan, pushing him to the ground.

"If it makes light of something important, it's no longer comedy," said an unapologetic Mr. Greenfield, reiterating that Conservative Jews do have an obligation to be kosher and that Harry (the character) therefore misspoke.

"You can maybe look at that scene and think we're making light of something serious, but we really are trying to educate, but that's not always clear," she said at the Tribeca Film Festival last Sunday, the Huffington Post reports.