Sentence examples for told lightly from inspiring English sources

Sometimes a weighty tale is never more affecting than when it's told lightly.

That story of therapeutic friendship and survival is told lightly in the dialogue ("Stop following me; go home," orders the boy early on, an attitude which, by the game's conclusion, has entirely changed).

It is a story she told - lightly fictionalised - in the children's classic When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

He tells lies, lightly and without shame.

If this story doesn't look that funny in print, as she tells it – lightly, with a kind of faux-vapid innocence – I find myself shaking with laughter, tears of hysteria in my eyes.

Adapted from journalist Robin Moore's book, it tells a lightly fictionalized version of the painstaking surveillance operation carried out by two New York police officers in the lead up to the arrest of French television personality Jacques Angelvin, who had arrived in America with a 1960 Buick Invicta that had 112 pounds of heroin secreted inside it.

Adapted from journalist Robin Moore's book, it tells a lightly fictionalised version of the painstaking surveillance operation carried out by two New York police officers in the lead up to the arrest of French television personality Jacques Angelvin, who had arrived in America with a 1960 Buick Invicta that had 112 pounds of heroin secreted inside it.

Later, when asked why, he lightly told reporters: "Did you know who I was talking about?

I was told to step lightly but deliberately on the tatami mat.

A twisting, lightly told tale of love, death, psychic powers and existential unease in Little Italy, "The Dog Problem" is presented as an extended cosmic joke on its characters.

Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Century) is a savage and tender adventure story, deeply researched and lightly told: Game of Thrones for real, with the bonus of style and sardonic wit.