Sentence examples for would lighten from inspiring English sources

Certainly such an alliance would lighten the Whitney's financial burden.

Some wish she would lighten up, so to speak, about the whole thing, but no.

To circle the mountain would lighten their karma, lifting them toward moksha, the Hindu nirvana.

I ask if he ever wishes the critics would lighten up around him.

"But I would lighten up and find a basket of the next generation" of computer platforms.

In the United States, they concluded, it would lighten the nation's future debt burden — not increase it.

In front of it an Indian rug lay twisted in an attitude of torment," you wish she'd lighten up.

Boateng designs sensational menswear, is friends with everyone from Robert Redford to Sacha Baron Cohen, and has achieved all this from the least auspicious origins, but I wish he'd lighten up.

There are moments, alas, when Passaro makes like a cultural diagnostician and ends up resembling a cut-rate DeLillo -- check out Will's cranky jeremiad about "the extinction of personality that is television," which makes you wish he'd lighten up.

The judges are complimentary as ever, but Simon and Randy are both starting to wish she'd lighten up and act her age a little bit more: enjoy the fact she's sixteen, engage with the audience, the microphone AND the camera.

You'd lighten up a ton if you'd just lower your standards!