Sentence examples for role lightly from inspiring English sources

Pearl Jam do not take their role lightly.

Blunt, despite an uncertain Anglo-American accent in the opening scene – it settles into being more or less Brit – wears her role lightly.

The actor Tom Hiddleston has fuelled speculation that he could replace Daniel Craig as James Bond, saying he was a huge fan of the 007 films and would not take on the role lightly.

Wearing the role as lightly and as seemingly effortlessly as Liberace did one of his weighty costumes, and with a Midwestern twang to sometimes comic effect, Mr. Douglas plays Lee as a man who is so supremely self-aware that he shares other people's delight in him and the world he has created.

"It's not a role anyone takes lightly," DeOssie said.

Maria Kowroski performed the ballerina role tenderly and lightly; she's reluctant to exert authority or find a wide range of color in the music.

That role has been lightly talked about.

It was a shaming moment that neither of us ever quite forgot, but once it had passed and we had gone back to our usual roles, taking life lightly, we relaxed.

Jackson does not take his role as team comic lightly.

"I don't say this lightly: This role has made me a better person.

This is not a role to be taken lightly, but one in which Sabathia dares to declare to the world the seriousness of his emerging talent, and his ability to go along with a gag.