However, this apparent irreverence toward the subject, an irreverence that is sometimes self-directed, is only Struth's lightness of being. |
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With a smile on her face and a lightness about her movements, she thanked them all. |
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You can often overcome somebody with a lot more physical strength just by your agility and lightness of movement. |
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Because of the lightness and grace of the movements, the martial art is almost like dance. |
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Two flutes, mandolin, harp, and solo lower strings give an airy lightness to the sounds that accompany the two female dancers. |
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The album leaves the listener to revel within the lightness of its subtle movements and statements. |
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The lightness and elegance of this seemingly fantasy structure was truly innovative. |
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The short Scherzo is very Mendelssohnian and might, therefore, have been played with a tad more gossamer lightness. |
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The script has a delightful lightness of touch, beautifully rendered by the cast. |
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Her accent is too wayward to convince, but there's a lightness to her acting that helps paper over the cracks. |
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Much of the appeal of these TV sitcoms is that there's an easy lightness to them, but I admire them all the more for that. |
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This kind of playfulness adds lightness to weighty intellectual questions about art and culture. |
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Shot in a straightforward style, the film strikes an unusual balance between seriousness and lightness. |
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Under the lightness is a well-crafted storyline, brought to life by great direction and performances. |
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The orchestration of both music by Tchaikovsky and original material by Gavin Sutherland brings an engaging lightness to the ballet. |
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He plays Poirot with a whimsical humor, a lightness that belies the detective's razor-sharp intellect. |
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There was at times a giddy lightness to the film's direction that gave its dialogue an unexpected truth. |
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The famous ending invites the reader to 'take the morality' of the Tale in spite of its apparent lightness of substance. |
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His sculptures combine charm, lightness and irreverence to offer insights and idiosyncracies. |
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I've got such energy and lightness of spirit that I feel as though I've been reborn. |
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There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy. |
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We were talking and laughing about things, so that there was a little bit of lightness in the room, even if he didn't respond to it. |
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They were both cheered by the music and it added a bit of lightness to their evening. |
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This baroque band brought instrumental virtuosity and lightness of spirit to a varied program. |
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By all considerations, the movie should be depressing but, at the conclusion, I felt lightness and joy. |
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The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well. |
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The present offensive is unprecedented in its speed and daring and in the lightness of casualties. |
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They expressed outrage at the lightness of sentencing generally in the courts. |
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The public response to her crime, a sort of winking approval, was matched by the lightness of her punishment. |
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In his other work, he has acknowledged the relative lightness of the United Kingdom's imperial burden. |
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The relative lightness of this sentence is explained as the judge observed the motivation for his offence. |
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The football community has been left stunned by the lightness of the punishment. |
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The easiness of the yoke and the lightness of the burden are based on the relationship we have with Jesus. |
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The tablet has been a design classic since its launch and pictures don't really capture its incredible thinness and lightness. |
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The panels are separated by 8-inch glass slits, which dramatize their lightness and thinness. |
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We note, perhaps, sensations passing through our bodies, pressure, warmth and coolness, lightness, tingling. |
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The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted. |
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Skoogh plays them beautifully, approaching the first three intermezzi with a relative lightness of touch and keeping them moving. |
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The admirable Japanese pianist, Haruko Seki, here applies her refreshing lightness of touch to some of the solo piano pieces. |
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And it succeeds in treating this often delicate subject head-on but with the lightness of touch that you would expect from The Motley Fool. |
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He crossed the carpet with a lightness and deliberation that drew my eyes to his feet, which were rather small, in soft black moccasins. |
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Doris Humphrey, wearing a red dress, skips and skitters with a windblown lightness. |
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Top fermented, unlike lagers, this beer still demonstrates the lightness associated with bottom fermentation. |
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If these plants have spikes and spires, they also add vertical movement, drama and an airy lightness to the garden. |
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Physicists would tell us that the brightness or lightness of a surface is measured in candles and lumens. |
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The crystalline lightness of Goode's cantabile line in the Andante poco moto recalled Schubert's songs and vocal music. |
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The lightness of touch and the freshness of observation found in the sketchbooks now animate oil paintings of scale and substance. |
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I am conscious that the color of my skin carries privilege that may wound, a lightness that can betray. |
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The lightness of the clown sequences also helps balance out the heaviness of some of the material examined in the plays. |
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We ensured that the categorizations were based only on skin tone by altering the lightness and darkness in the photos. |
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The final choice, chosen for its lightness, performance, and packability, was a Patagonia Torrentshell jacket and overtrousers. |
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There's a lightness, a crystalline sparkle and sheer zest about these performances that makes them bubble like chilled champagne. |
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Fabrics in general had a feeling of lightness and suppleness in all fiber types, and had a seasonless look to them. |
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Because it's the heat of the summer, there is a certain lightness and airiness and sweatiness to it. |
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The white onion soup was creamy and sweet with a necessary lightness for a long brunch. |
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The suckling pig, which took nearly half an hour to prepare, had the honied lightness of good Peking duck. |
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Her polished delivery and lightness of touch make her one a new generation of female comediennes, one to watch. |
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The body of the knife is slotted aluminum for lightness and firmness of grip. |
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Haiku is contemplative poetry and is characterised by spontaneity and lightness. |
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Thick quilts provide the inspiration for jackets and coats, conveying cozy warmth plus convincing lightness. |
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As a nod to the contemporary lifestyle of the owners, and to add a sense of fluidity and lightness, most of the ground floor is open in plan. |
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Sprinkle with the crumble mixture, but do not press it down as this will take away the lightness of the dish. |
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She was a Romantic ballerina of fugitive lightness, with a delicacy as much like steel as late. |
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And she had an extraordinary deftness and lightness of touch, plus a great facility with language. |
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As you say, dejunking gives one a wonderful feeling of lightness and relief. |
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Not much variation here, not much finesse, delicacy, lightness, or the Exotic other. |
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Because of the lightness and grace of the movements, the martial art is cunningly disguised as dance. |
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They are the product of complex histories that the writer eruditely recounts with an enviable lightness of touch. |
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Wit, irony and lightness were always balanced, for Smith, by genuine affection and warmth. |
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It's simple, it's to the point, there's a lightness of feel to it, and it achieves results. |
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Speed, rotation, and lightness figure just as much as strength, resilience, and weightiness. |
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All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness. |
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Zellweger remains to provide a lightness of tone, particularly in her grudging reacceptance of her father. |
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The lightness or darkness of a color affects whether it can absorb or reflect heat and light. |
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His movie is like a cork bobbing amiably on waves of lightness and unforced gaiety. |
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Glazed facades on the north and south sides both screen the building and enhance its pervading impression of lightness. |
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Adjustments made in the traditional darkroom include changing the lightness, darkness and contrast of the image. |
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The noticeable interior lightness is thanks to the Teflon panels of the movable roof structure. |
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The translucent polycarbonate ceiling gives the corridor a lightness it would not otherwise have. |
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Despite the lightness of the morning it's hard to get the brain working now. |
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Wherever possible, he has maximized visual distances creating a sense of space and lightness. |
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I am thinking some darker decorations may help balance the lightness in here. |
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The spaciousness and lightness of the apartment is accentuated with windows that run the whole length of the room. |
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The lightness of stucco was used to great effect by the sculptor for his decorations in Sicily. |
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At every stage of her life, on numerous occasions, she will hear comment on the lightness or darkness of her complexion. |
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Many acquaintances of Bill's were struck by the lightness of his complexion. |
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In the painting, the lightness of the flowers is emphasised by the dark green shade of the leaves. |
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Pinole was the food carried on war trips when nutrition, lightness of weight and smallness of bulk were all desired. |
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The name 'lungs' is derived from their lightness in weight, since they contain air, and the butcher refers to them as 'lights' for this reason. |
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Finely crafted and detailed, the lightness of the structure is immediately apparent. |
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You cannot help but notice the lightness of the box as soon as you pick it up. |
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It is a strong, dense sheet material with a lightweight core producing lightness and strength. |
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They choose materials by considering their strength, lightness, economy and durability. |
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These features contribute to the bag's lightness and ease of use, transport, and storage. |
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The beans, teaming up with the carrots, contributed a little veg lightness to the stew. |
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The meatless croquettes have a surprising lightness and a lively upper register of dill. |
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When buying the potatoes, ask your greengrocer for the flouriest possible, as this will ensure a lightness to the pancake. |
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Although the style presents a lightness to the palate, biscuity notes play a big part in its aroma and flavour. |
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Whole grain yeast breads rise more slowly and, in general, do not achieve the lightness of white flour yeast breads. |
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The pilaf was prepared with boiled potatoes, which surprisingly adds lightness to the dish. |
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The dances of Manipur are known for their lyrical grace, lightness of tread and delicacy of hand gestures. |
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He told her about the beauty he saw in her eyes, in the silky softness of her skin, in the lightness of her touch. |
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He would forever be intent and serious, but now there was a lightness to his bearing, a softening that was altogether fresh. |
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She and danced her first solo with gossamer lightness and fluidity. |
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A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade. |
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His timeless age and his youthful lightness of heart show his true nature. |
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It's the lightness of touch that I'll miss, the sureness with which a Frasier script could go from drawing-room comedy to sheer farce to tragedy without missing a beat. |
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Men like watches with features that they can boast about such as the degree of accuracy, depth of water resistance, thinness and lightness of the watch. |
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Dissolving negative, harmful patterns leads toward the sense of ease, grace, lightness, freedom and good health that are every human being's natural birthright. |
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There is a song in your heart and lightness to your step today. |
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I just love the texture and lightness of tempura batter and was delighted our prawns also came with a few bite-size servings of tempura vegetables. |
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The viognier brings an added lightness to this very drinkable red wine. |
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They chose linen because of its lightness and earthy shades and hues. |
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There was a definite lightness of touch to the grilled red mullet fillets. |
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We're hoping for the best and at the moment the birds are singing more tunefully than normal, there is a lightness in my step and I'm singing happy songs. |
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One technical innovation is Saga's fish scale technique which uses different fur types such as silver fox with mink to create a lightness of texture with pattern. |
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In this season's fabrics, the general aim is softness and lightness. |
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The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display. |
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One fellow I know, who lost a sizable portion of his nest egg and lives off his investments, was a paragon of cheer and lightness. |
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It hugged his waistline, and the dark green color brought out the lightness of the color in his eyes, making them look like light green slivers of ice. |
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Many people were concerned at the lightness of the sentence. |
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We encounter the same lightness as we wade into a swimming pool. |
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To preserve the sense of lightness, the code-mandated risers are of glass. |
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Innumerable small parts move against each other in the endeavour to combine lightness, response, and speed of action with weight and power of tone. |
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The more solid platforms and staircase contrast with the lightness of the ribbed enclosure, but the risers of the staircase are left open to maximise views. |
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The lightness and lucidity of the glass concourse is exchanged for the more brooding atmosphere of massive concrete walls and the muscular rhythm of the steel structure. |
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Her step had lost the lightness that had before distinguished it. |
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With her artful fusion of fact and fiction, Phillips pulls off a rare sense of lightness and grace at the end of the novel. |
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Set against spice of the chili and the sharp tang of the lime, it is an intense combination of tastes that balance beautifully with the lightness of the fish itself. |
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The American edition retains the piecemeal lightness of the original experiment. |
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Olivia feels a lightness in her chest, as if a weight has been removed. |
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The hull was far out of the water because of the lightness of the ship. |
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Suspended within multiple layers of the building structure, the effect of this gauzy translucence is to elevate space into an experience of lightness and weightlessness. |
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There is a throb of constant excitement, an irrepressible energy as palpable as the tangled screech of a bird chorus in the wash, glow and lightness before sunrise. |
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Or a honeycomb made of cardboard combined with coconut husks coated with a semi-transparent layer of coloured polyester to achieve strength, cheapness and lightness. |
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The point is not a celebration of military or political triumph, but rather a visualization of the human quest for spiritual lightness, for a transcendent peace. |
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Looking at contexts where lightness is celebrated in music, literature and the arts one writer suggests anorexic behaviour is more than a pattern of psychiatric symptoms. |
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My father didn't earn enough, and my mother took care of the money and the family, and she had no time for lightness. |
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There was still a lightness to the clothes, though, and an ease to the construction and fit. |
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Their impunity to prosecution and the lightness of the sentences they do get when they are caught is a joke and has bred an arrogance that makes my stomach churn. |
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The acoustical requirement of 50 percent absorptive and 50 percent reflective surfaces led to a proscenium that exploits the depth and lightness offered by flat panels. |
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This book has an airy lightness and inconsequentiality about it. |
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Piau here has a lightness of touch which sits perfectly with the Mozart. |
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The work featured brown color chips that gradually increased in lightness. |
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These last features give the whole design some kitsch and lightness. |
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The combined objectives of cross country capability and lightness for maximum mobility and air transportability demand efficient structural design. |
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The dark green color brought out the lightness of the color in his eyes. |
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Color was reported in the CIE-Lab trichromatic system as lightness, redness and yellowness values. |
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His physical body felt like a meatsuit compared to the lightness he had just known. |
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The endpapers show the contrast between lightness and darkness in a forest. |
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There was a sense of lightness that was just perfect for Spring. |
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In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road. |
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Yet these works, with their calm, almost Apollonian appearance, do not, in fact, lack playfulness or ironic lightness. |
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The ground beef is vibrant with cinnamon and allspice, while the diced summer squash adds a contemporary lightness. |
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Aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys are used for applications where strength and lightness are required. |
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A gneiss has visible bands of differing lightness, with a common example being the granite gneiss. |
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For lightness, Zagato pioneered the use of Perspex and of aerodynamics, with trademark forms such as the split or stub tail. |
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The hull's sides were fastened together to allow it to flex with the waves, combining lightness and ease of handling on land. |
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Using this casting method Darby could cast pots of sufficient thinness and lightness. |
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Its weakness relative to extended technicolor is essential to understanding the lightness of H compared to the low-lying spin-one technihadrons. |
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Like ballet and some forms of modern dance, thinspiration puts a premium on both agony and lightness. |
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But there's a natural lightness, a feyness to some people, and I don't know how that happens. |
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That these performers can walk the walk makes the lightness of the material more palatable. |
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Make bold statements with pieces of nature in the home using burr oak and driftwood furniture but with an element of lightness. |
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This happiness is reflected in the medieval lightness of the poem, which is perfectly congenial with its catechismal rhetoric. |
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His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. |
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The dining chair and the low, inviting lounge chair are both built up over a classic wire frame, and its bent legs lend it lightness and elegance. |
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This attic stage is ornamented with alternating pilasters and rectangular windows which are set just below the cornice, creating a sense of lightness. |
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But the lightness of touch and sureness of his intent as he launches a systemised advance through prog, grime and dubstep is both heartening and uplifting. |
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He cited the lightness of the characterisation as supporting of his view. |
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