Sentence examples for playing lightly from inspiring English sources

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

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.

With the help of the kindly drama teacher (Alyson Reed), a ringer for Mrs. Doubtfire, the students do what Caden Cotard tries to do: they mount a stage spectacular, playing lightly heightened adaptations of themselves.

Find their favorite song/type of music, and have it playing lightly in the background.

However, this has its drawbacks - strumming and extremely fast picking is much harder when playing lightly.

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

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.

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.

Starring Aurélia Thierrée, a charming waif who's the daughter of a French cirque-nouveau dynasty, as well as the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, the show plays lightly and wittily with stage illusions, veering occasionally into the macabre.