levity

In a nice moment of levity in another tense debate, comedian Joe Lycett reminded the traitors - and specifically Hesmondhalgh - that he would "like to be recruited at some stage".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Velvet-coated sculptures of cactuses and otherworldly beaded plants provide some of the much needed levity that the show so hopes to achieve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

"But I appreciate these are very serious issues and am sorry for any offence inadvertently caused by this moment of levity".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In our dire age, a little bit of levity can often feel like a wager, staking your bets on an audience’s bandwidth for fun.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

There was even one moment of levity that first evening.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Many simple natural affections were by them almost represented as sinful, while they looked upon the customary diversions in the light of unholy levities, and upon the old holiday practices as traditions quite heathenish.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

But the levities of Julia, to which Augustus could not be blind, compelled him to banish her—his only daughter—to the Campanian coast, where she died neglected and impoverished.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

I wonder if, in the midst of the stammered and blurted incoherences, the lapses and levities, of this quaint book, a sort of "orientation," as the theologians say now, has emerged at all?

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

Yet even for these levities with which his pages are so liberally besprinkled or bedaubed, some half-apology may be circumspectly urged.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

It was so sure to be one of those frivolous little levities which jar so painfully on serious feelings.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever