Sentence examples for sits lightly from inspiring English sources

The square white-shingled house, with its French doors and floor-to-ceiling windows, sits lightly in this wood.

Gucci's new Signoria watch sits lightly inside a loosely linked bracelet, almost as if it were floating.

Musically they are soul mates: the music sits lightly with them and they bear it swiftly along.

Well, it's among Mr. Carey's achievements that this plump and well-researched biography sits lightly in the lap; it reads like a picaresque novel.

He speaks no Russian and has built heavily on the work of English-language historians of the Soviet Union such as Sheila Fitzpatrick, but his learning sits lightly.

An old man is told by a younger friend:I rather suspect that people generally think old age sits lightly upon your shoulders, not because of your cheerful disposition, but because you are rich.

On the whole, Persian rule sat lightly on the subject peoples, at least under the early Achaemenids.

But the rooms sit lightly on the land and you do feel like you are in the rocky terrain, not just looking out at it.

Learning sat lightly on Caerwyn Williams and he will be missed as much for his Christian compassion, humility and gentle humour as for his scholarship.

The tragic and mysterious doings of men and gods in Hades sit lightly on Offenbach's updates of classical sexual predation, intrigue and jealousy.

It is meant to sit lightly on Mother Earth, giving her as much breathing room as possible and reconciling her with her inhabitants.