Unusually lithe daughter leaving university in good spirits

Usage examples of lighthearted.

Mr Wilkinson, later to become a bishop, preached entertaining sermons to the lighthearted Belgravians and the organist regarded the service as an opportunity to play Mendelssohn.

Jackie tended to associate dogs with lightheartedness, but there was nothing lighthearted about the people here today.

The sign of this consummation was his ability at last to play with his art, and thus to add to his already famous achievements in sentimental drama that lighthearted art of comedy of which the greatest masters, like Moliere and Mozart, are so much rarer than the tragedians and sentimentalists.

Norwegian regaled them with lighthearted talk, speaking an almost perfect English, smiling at Annis from time to time, a secret smile which gave her the pleasant feeling of sharing a joke with him.

When the Boers had been shelling the town for some weeks the lighthearted Colonel sent out to say that if they went on any longer he should be compelled to regard it as equivalent to a declaration of war.

My futuristic dystopias could perhaps be more correctly classified as nightmares, but it was the more lighthearted contemporary fantasy, the kid stuff, that had made me a household name.

She was feeling surprisingly lighthearted because Sister John had not insisted on her joining the expedition: Naomi was going to drive the van.

Perhaps he was a breadmaker, or someone who could ease another's pain with a joke--make them feel lighthearted.

Niles Peneddyn, of course, had taken to the world of consciousness-alteration with the same insouciance he approached everything else, from sex to Alpine skiing-as a series of lighthearted adventures that would someday make entertaining vignettes for his autobiography.

Keyser-Bach explained, forging ahead, pushing and slapping the red bulks as he passed them, like a lighthearted Samson.

Another game was soon arranged, he and Mrs Cliburn taking the places of Charles and Abigail, who went off with Gavin and Mrs Haswell to engage in a lighthearted game of Crazy Croquet, which Charles insisted was the only sort of croquet he understood.

He felt ill at ease, despite the spirit of lighthearted gaiety that ruled the day.

Nor had he been particularly amused by the Chairman's lighthearted suggestion that he think of the Mother Company's use of CIA operatives as Her contribution to the hiring of the mentally handicapped.

Unlike ordinary rhesuses, these were bold rather than shy, brooding rather than lighthearted.

The worry left Beatrice's face as well, and Peter was positively lighthearted, engaging the general in spirited argument over the relative merits of Hayden's string quartets and Mozart's.