Sentence examples for making light of something from inspiring English sources

"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.

"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.

"There was kind of this revulsion of him making light of something people literally have to bleed or die for.

"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," Schumer said at the panel.

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

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.

"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.