Sentence examples for make light of this from inspiring English sources

I don't mean to make light of this.

What did you eat?" "The chairman wants to make light of this," Mr. Shelby said.

One can easily make light of this curatorial marathon, which seems to go on forever.

Platini put out a statement stressing that he is not a suspect and he sought to make light of this encounter with criminal investigators, portraying the money – nine years late – as entirely normal.

In a series of tweets the comic said: "I appreciate as a comedian people will expect me to make light of this situation, but I'm not going to in this statement as this is obviously a serious matter.

Septembers of Shiraz opens with a "based on a true story" card and I do not want to make light of this family's plight, or the persecution of religious faiths, or any other group, by fundamentalist regimes.

McLaren might not have got the result they wanted in the race, but Fernando Alonso was able to make light of the situation, posting this picture on Twitter  of the timing screen upside down, putting Alonso and Button 'first' and 'second'second

8) To me the authors have chosen to make light of the most amazing result of this paper - that 80% of the CENP-A on chromosomes is not at centromeres!

Robinson said, "Not to make light of that in any way, but this was a year or two before there were improvements in P.D.F.s".

This is not to make light of the masculine charge.

Both of them initially make light of the situation.