as in lightness
a lack of seriousness often at an improper time
try to restrain your natural frothiness at least for the duration of the lecture
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When the theme arrived in the cellos, Guerrero maintained their levity and grace throughout the movement — and, in fact, throughout much of the piece, bringing an aerodynamic lightness even to the symphony’s final cadence.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025 -
After Appeals Court Pauses Ruling While the bolster gives support and balance to the knife, the lightness of the bolster-free Japanese knives offers ergonomic benefits.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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As the country’s friends have looked on in horror and its rivals have watched with glee, the United States has gone from indispensable to insufferable.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The crowd stood up and with nervous laughter streamed toward the lobby, then galloped into the street with the glee of prisoners released.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
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But while there are a few bright spots — chief among them the bits of levity offered by slightly goofy, occasionally clever and generally lovable loan shark Woo-seok (Jeon Seok-ho) — the pace is lumbering.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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The Flight designs connect to both legacy and levity.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
9 June 2025
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Courage is good, but so is sensitivity; seriousness is good, but so is frivolity; rationality is good, but so is imagination.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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Renoir’s film dramatized the end of an era (of high-society frivolities, as war loomed), and so does Anderson’s; namely, the end of the age of buccaneer industrialism.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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“Frothiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frothiness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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