Sentence examples for played lightly from inspiring English sources

The 1991 anthem Scenario barrels along under the steam of its original recorded instrumental booming from the DJ's decks, Vivrant Thing is spiky, pugilistic, almost violent, while Gettin' Up's summery riffs are played lightly enough to float to the Roundhouse rafters.

Even the arrival of Nathan's older brother (a very funny Benjamin King) is played lightly; yes, it turns out that older brother, a lobbyist in Washington for the banking industry, doesn't have it all together, the way everyone assumes.

Over the course of the evening, he literally moved from a whisper to a scream, making the most of the dynamic possibilities of the solo format from delicately nuanced songs on which he played lightly on an acoustic parlor guitar through rockers in which he channeled that youthful anger of auld while bashing away on one of his amplified hollow-body electric instruments.

"Whatever you say, Jean, Leee said, playing lightly with my bracelet.

Her new show, "Noir," at the Metropolitan Room, plays lightly with film noir images and archetypes.

"This Could Hurt" also plays lightly with the conventions of corporate discourse.

Messud plays, lightly, with familiar archetypes, deftly abstracting her tale so that it flares into myth.

One of his earliest works, this boisterous farce about mistaken identities plays lightly with themes — estrangement, injustice, infidelity — that will later be more deeply explored.

This horror version of home movies is both irresistible and terrifying, as is the spectacle of a great writer playing lightly with his genius.

The horror version of home movies is both terrifying and irresistible, as is the spectacle of a great writer playing lightly with his genius.

That's part of the implicit conceit of this clever sitcom starting Tuesday on BET — part scripted and part improvised — in which all of the stars play lightly parodic versions of themselves.