What is "lightheartedness"

Usage examples of "lightheartedness".

The lightheartedness with which I had gone in my new clothes to Slaw seemed a long, long time ago.

A huge fire crackled in the grate, lamps shone brightly, and there was a feeling of gaiety and lightheartedness in the air.

One of the things I loved him for was his lightheartedness In that moment I hated it.

He felt a strange lightheartedness, and his shoulders prickled as if wings were trying to break out for the crossing to the beyond.

Impossible to interpret this profoundly uncharacteristic behavior as in any way an expression of lightheartedness, of celebration or of joy.

Gantrell said, attempting to mimic her lightheartedness and failing miserably.

The pictures and verses kindled memories of many bright, laughing days, but the old joy and lightheartedness could not come again, and already, without knowing why, Pierre looked back into his childhood, which had still been reality days and weeks ago, with the yearning and sadness of an adult.

The droll lightheartedness which won Comus Bassington such measure of popularity as he enjoyed among his fellows did not materially help to endear him to the succession of masters with whom he came in contact during the course of his schooldays.

Roy, with a lightheartedness as ominous as the noise of the standby burners.

Baron Troylin and his daughter ate nervously, with a forced lightheartedness that belied an underlying tenseness.

Kelly smiled, but Jeffrey could tell that despite her apparent lightheartedness, she was dead serious.

Any lightheartedness that Jeffrey had been able to call up faded as he surveyed the street scene in front of him.

Knowing nothing of this, I went forward with as much lightheartedness as could be managed, humming a song to myself, and carefully putting aside thoughts of warmth and supper, while the dusk increased and the great forest vegetation seemed to grow ranker and closer at every step Another disconcerting thing was that the ground sloped gradually downwards, not upwards as it should have done, till it seemed the path lay across the flats of a forest-covered plain, which did not conform to my wish of striking a road on the foot-hills of the mountain.

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