Sentence examples for no levity from inspiring English sources

For once, her tone had no levity.

Compose yourself — no levity, please — and let's play a game about serious matters.

There was no levity at all when we were shooting Foxcatcher.

There is no levity about his policy lectures; there is a tank-like advance towards the logical conclusion.

That said, with no levity at all across this game's seven-or-so hours, one might not reach the end.

There was no such levity in the Giants' dugout as they could not find a way to solve Oswalt, aside from his one mistake to Ross.

That Parkinson shared his surname with that affliction was no cause for levity between them, of course, but theirs was an easy chemistry.

"I can't beat myself up over it," Min said unconvincingly minutes later, with no trace of levity in tone or expression, after absorbing the first double-bagel loss since her preteens.

As Mrs. Clinton received a briefing on the sculpture from a park ranger, her press entourage pressed in with boom mikes and clicking shutters, but she was in no mood for levity or cheap metaphors.

But the Indiana point guard made no attempt at levity when asked if he empathized with Ewing's physical and emotional travails over the past few years and his long-frustrated quest to win a National Basketball Association championship.

There were no moments of levity and only a tentative sketch, articulated with controlled restraint, of his soul.