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Lunch is very light-hearted and great fun
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If ever one of us awoke with that brooding depression that was never far from the surface smile, the other always seemed to rally round and, with care and light-hearted humour, would lift the mood
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Sound man … a little light-hearted at times, but that is no bad thing
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Could this be the beginning of a stumbling optimism? Was I light-hearted? I was buzzing with expectations and questions
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She was looking for a source of variety who was a little more light-hearted and less driven than Alan
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meant light-heartedly, Jean was flustered and breathed a
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Of all my clan, he’d always been the most light-hearted
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The officer waved his hand in light-hearted dismissal
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To dream that you have rainbow colored hair refers to your light-hearted and carefree nature
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Jack was wondering why Rosemary always seemed to want to attack him when he was being light-hearted
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With a deeper understanding of the importance of life’s “little things,” enriched by his time spent at war in Iraq, Jacob offers a philosophical, light-hearted, and insightfully energetic tone to his writing style
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Before Dawn could answer, Carolyn had called a light-hearted cheerio and disappeared among the trees
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Then wrinkling her snout in an attempt at light-heartedness, she cocked her head
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Minister Lyle gave a short service that was light-hearted and rather witty which suited me and lifted my nerves off their tendrils
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The men then followed this up with a few short introductions to each other followed by a few light-hearted jokes and one-liners
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Colling was certain that he had never been so happy, but his light-heartedness was tempered by concern about the future
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Knowing what she knew, or fancied she knew, Mary considered that Faith was far too light-hearted
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But around her friends, Sierra was always Sistah Britain, light-hearted and witty, the glowing center of attention
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I looked up at my tall father with light-hearted vexation, sure it was true, but it didn’t help me
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shapes its mud-pies and abandons them light-heartedly
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He tapped his foot four times to set the tempo in his mind, and played the introduction to a light-hearted folk song, playing the chords with his left hand and picking the melody with his right
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With the light-hearted and senseless distraction of
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from her, and she felt very light-hearted thinking of
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But I noticed that their greetings were much more light-hearted than Annie’s had been
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on the floor with Simon playing around her while us adults talked about light-hearted things,
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It had been a long time since she felt so light-hearted
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"Are you two having a party?" Henry light-heartedly asked as his gaze rested on Eva’s distraught face
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It’s difficult to imagine anything less like the light-hearted fun and pleasure of amateur dramatic clubs, where rehearsals get bogged down in laughter and silly games, and acting is just a pastime – an enjoyable way to spend a night with friends of similar bent
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Alwyn maintained the light-hearted, almost fey air of the piece, while never losing sight of the underlying truths
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‗You've shaved your pubic hair! Now I can‘t get you by the short and curlies,‘ Achilles attempt at light-hearted insouciance failed miserably
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‘Let’s keep the conversation light-heartedly
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‘You call that light-hearted?’
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There was no hint of light-heartedness, he was being totally earnest and sincere
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The main thing with self-evaluation is to tackle it light-heartedly
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of their breakfast time in light-hearted conversation
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a support role in two of the light-hearted skits
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My friends had their favourites and little rivalries developed between us, and on the way home the merits of different players would light-heartedly bounce from one to the other, what glorious days of innocence they were, like thousands of children before us and probably the thousands to come after us, we thought we were such experts of the game
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I heard mother mutter light-heartedly as she left the room
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It was always light-hearted and with good humor
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Charles gave me a light-hearted smile
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The reunion wasn’t for the light-hearted, and many of us dropped to our knees in agony
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He often light-heartedly consoled himself with that thought
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In fact, I think that there is a compliment in there somewhere,” said the monk in a light-hearted manner
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humorous and philosophical, light-hearted and educational, moral and
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The wine had flowed and the conversation as always had been joyful and light-hearted
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Once they had left the house, she engaged her old friend in yet more light-hearted banter, secretly distracting his attention
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And we sat at the fire for a long time, laughing light-heartedly and telling each other different stories from our lives
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amount of assorted bubbly, served with many light-hearted jokes
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their souls; moreover, daily conversations, at times light-hearted,
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In an attempt to draw her attention away from the pain she was in, Joel commented in a light-hearted tone
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Sleep would be the most effective way for you to get this rest, followed by some light-hearted activity, such as watching a movie or reading a book while resting in bed
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Once their laughter subsided, Falcon popped the movie they’d picked into Kathy’s DVD Player, and the five of them settled themselves onto the couch and chairs in Kathy‘s bedroom… (Joel having helped Kathy over to the couch from the bed) And for the next few hours, they enjoyed watching a light-hearted comedy that had them all laughing uproariously
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paragraph in a light-hearted manner that catches people's attention
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To where light-hearted joy of courtship ends,
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“Fine, I think,” he answered light-heartedly
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Apparently the end of the world is a light-hearted subject
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But she couldn't help thinking there ought to be a band on his left arm to counteract the impression of light-heartedness in his legs; a crape band, no matter how narrow, or a band of black anything, not necessarily crape, such as she was sure it was usual in these circumstances to wear
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This bit of light-hearted banter didn’t help, and Pon was terrified
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Both Andy and Basil developed an enviable facility of initiating light-hearted, amusing conversations with girls that interested them wherever they found them
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A mystique to her unconventionality, a dazzle to her light-hearted love affairs
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They put a happy face overall and the merry, light-hearted presence of their beloved English brother Iason was crucial in making the event the happy celebration that a marriage should be
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It had not yet become a problem and Lea usually, in a light-hearted tone, told him not to worry but a predicament was approaching, and he was contemplating a visit to a specialist to find out about the new sex-enhancement drugs that were now being developed and advertised with such fanfare
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The siege, moreover, continued and the light-heartedness and good spirits, which made us happy to be together were most of the time missing
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crowded and the atmosphere was light-hearted and festive
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When we left the cinema, Monette invited us to a nearby restaurant where we had dinner with the luxury of aperitifs and wine and pleasant light-hearted conversation
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Thomas smiled in response to the light-hearted
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was none of the light-hearted confidence and excite-
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Hallen’s light-hearted attitude should help our two
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“Yeah,” she said with a light-hearted hint of sarcasm as she tugged at the stuck zipper, “that’s what I’m glad about: that it didn’t step on us
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� Stick to light-hearted and upbeat tones in your conversation
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Do you think I'm light-hearted? No, I'm gloomy
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"You!" she said in astonishment; "I thought you very light-hearted
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She was a ship commanded, manned, equipped--not a sort of marine Ritz, proclaimed unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual population upon the sea, without enough boats, without enough seamen (but with a Parisian cafe and four hundred of poor devils of waiters) to meet dangers which, let the engineers say what they like, lurk always amongst the waves; sent with a blind trust in mere material, light-heartedly, to a most miserable, most fatuous disaster
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And then fell to pulling off, not only his jacket and waistcoat, but his shirt too, in a manner at once light-hearted, business-like, and bloodthirsty
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Half time now, boys," he used to say light-heartedly
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During the morning the digging proceeded in a light-hearted and intermittent way
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But immediately as though slipping his feet into old slippers, he dropped back into the light-hearted, pleasant world he had always lived
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She had put on some indie band I had never heard of, light-hearted and agreeable
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He was in the most light-hearted mood
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Sviazhsky took his failure very light-heartedly
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light-hearted merriment, the mingling of girls’ fresh voices with the bass notes of their they had parted only that afternoon
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Students, citizens, soldiers, girls and matrons whirled light-heartedly before the inn with the figure of Bacchus for a sign
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Already it seemed years to Pippin since he had sat there before, in some half-forgotten time when he had still been a hobbit, a light-hearted wanderer touched little by the perils he had passed through
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As soon as the Evil One had disappeared, Bearskin became quite light-hearted; and going into the nearest town he bought a fine velvet coat, and hired a carriage drawn by four white horses, in which he was driven to the house of his bride
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As a light-hearted exercise I create a proxy of investors’ subjective return expectations by combining three irrational factors: extrapolation of past market returns, long-term earnings growth forecasts by analysts, and money illusion
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“You give it up very gleefully,” said he; “I don’t quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing
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"You think her more light-hearted than I am?"
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Gilbert's mother, who was a gay, frank, light-hearted lady, but not overburdened with tact, had a very embarrassing habit of asking Anne, always in a painfully distinct voice and always in the presence of a crowd, if she had heard from Gilbert lately
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I will note another characteristic : in spite of its friendliness and frankness his face never looked gay ; even when he laughed with whole-hearted mirth there was always a feeling that there was no trace in his heart of genuine, serene, light-hearted gaiety
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She felt so light-hearted and serene, she saw so clearly that all that had seemed to her so important on her railway journey was only one of the common trivial incidents of fashionable life, and that she had no reason to feel ashamed before anyone else or before herself
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But immediately as though slipping his feet into old slippers, he dropped back into the light-hearted, pleasant world he had always lived in
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Kitty was glad of all this, but she could not be light-hearted
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\i'ith light-hearted haste, fragments are torn from what is fine and noble and thro\^ii into one mass with the lawless and the envious
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I could not make out why they insulted Scuratoff, nor why they despised those convicts who were light-hearted, as they seemed to do
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I have forgotten to say that Liza too was there, and I had never seen her more radiant, carelessly light-hearted, and happy
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But the light-hearted, naïve and good-natured energy he had known so well in the past was replaced now by a sullen irritability and disillusionment, a sort of cynicism which was not yet habitual to her herself, and which weighed upon her
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His boyishness, his outbursts of light-hearted gaiety when with me, were gone; gone, too, was that indulgent indifference, against which I had so often risen in rebellion; nor had the penetrating look survived, which, in other days, had at once disturbed and delighted me; there were no more of the prayers, no more of the hours of exaltation which we had so loved to share, and indeed we saw each other only very rarely; he was constantly out, and I no longer dreaded remaining alone, no longer complained of it; I was perpetually engrossed, on my side, with the obligations of society, and never felt any need of him whatever
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Yet I was not, as light-hearted as I had been in the old days at Nikolski, when I had felt that my happiness was within myself, when I was happy because I deserved to be so, when my happiness was great but might be greater still
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And God helped—God who is in me, and I felt light-hearted and firm
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To take the simplest example: a boy, having experienced, let us say, fear on encountering a wolf, relates that encounter; and, in order to evoke in others the feeling he has experienced, describes himself, his condition before the encounter, the surroundings, the wood, his own light-heartedness, and then the wolf's appearance, its movements, the distance between himself and the wolf, etc
