Sentences with phrase «levity makes»

Some of the saddest video games with highly depressing endings are still fun to play, and playing something with a little levity makes a nice change from the online FPS battlefield.

It's important to have a sense of humor, she says; levity makes this mom business bearable.

Not exact matches

When asked what makes a great presentation, Ted Sorenson, President Kennedy's speechwriter, said, «Brevity, levity, and charity.»

And he provided a bit of levity during the hearing for former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas last month when Trump's nominee for energy secretary made an accidental euphemism while discussing his private meeting with Franken.

The Wired staffer, still lamenting the nice sum he'd hoped to make on the IPO with his stock options, was struck by the levity of the Goldman Sachs team.

However the levity of the video made me cringe a little bit since it might downplay the significance of baptism along with its rich heritage.

Needed a bit of levity this morning, and found the perfect thing: a fun challenge to list the four bloggers you would take with you on the Oregon Trail, courtesy of Crunchy Chicken, who found it on the Arduous blog, who found it at this great site called Cinco (Making Blogging Fun Again: 5 Steps at a Time).

As has been made painfully clear neither of those elements appear meaningful to the governor and, notwithstanding some moments of levity, time and retrospect treat many of Mayor de Blasio's words harshly.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

But there was room for a little levity this week when Superintendent Kriner Cash made a favorable comment about Obamacare, and then shot a sly look at Paladino, trying to get a rise out of him.

I started sometime during college because, as a student who had sat through innumerable lectures, I enjoyed and appreciated when professors included rare moments of levity to make a point, enrich a metaphor, or even just keep us awake.

They've both lived in Paris and New York at one time in their lives, giving them a unique perspective that allows them to highlight the differences in parenting styles with levity and humor — making it fun and educational read for both parents and children.

She's able to both convey the brutality of the games by making Katniss a more battle - hardened warrior this time out, which also finding moments of levity, such as her priceless reaction to an impromptu striptease by Malone in an elevator.

Had Pellington and Perry maybe added some sort of levity to the proceedings, Nostalgia wouldn't come off so heavy - handed in its desire to make the audience feel so much.

Kiarostami adopts a lush visual scheme and almost lighthearted tone that provides levity to a remarkably demanding work, one that's as playfully deceptive and cunning as anything the director has made before.

Though much of the film finds them in a state of disconnect — they communicate with each other through a very clinical intercom system in the house — we get these small moments of levity that make their relationship feel very lived in despite their tensions.

It's not clear if Key's character will have any kind of advantage in a mano - a-mano fight with an extraterrestrial race that has previously made mincemeat out of some very tough people or if his job role in the film will involve bringing some levity to the situation.

I think that's what also makes it hard for me to give it a full five since, while levity isn't a bad thing, the somewhat lightheartedness of things and occasional cheesiness undercut the material and stick out more than they should.

The movie's tone is still way too brooding for something that has so much levity at its fingertips, but that brooding is what made Meyer's books such a hit.

Fortunately for us, we made a movie that is a comedy in a time that I think a lot of people need some levity, but it's also just an unapologetic love story, a buddy story about following your dreams.

As brutally violent as the film gets, Saulnier never loses his grip on its sense of levity, making Green Room a prime candidate for fans of midnight movies.

But despite the occasional levity, Zvyagintsev never makes a joke of their situation, which is already looking pretty grim in the opening minutes.

The other thing making Never Go Back a drag (besides that generic title) is its severe lack of levity.

But the trailers also suggest that Whedon, who made the two Avengers films and who rewrote enough of this movie to get a writing credit, may have chipped away some at the monolithic seriousness of the franchise, allowing for a little character - based levity.

There's plenty of horror here, sure, but there's also the levity and depth that makes it eternally entertaining and the perfect watch for the dementedly delightful holiday that is Halloween (or, well, year - round).

Instead of making a pure political thriller, director Green has opted to undercut the tension with moments of levity and sexual innuendo.

There are a couple of decent laughs to be had, and about a dozen or so smiles, but unlike its predecessor, Legally Blonde 2 has several stretches of scenes where the levity and mirth take a break, leaving us a bit bored when there's not much going on except some necessary explanations in order to make this ambitious plot work.

So, it makes sense that he would opt to infuse this flick with lots of lighthearted levity.

There isn't a lot of depth here, but the thoughts shared and the levity depicted provide some insight on what making the film was like for those involved.

(I also found myself wincing when she made a joke of her old beliefs that cost so many animals their lives; the situation called for somber reflection, not levity.)

What made FFIX stand out from its predecessors was the way in which this typically grandiose storyline was handled, injecting far more levity into proceedings and filling out the cast with cute and goofy character designs on a level that had been missing since the series» SNES days.

Stone and metal can be given a humorous levity or shy weakness, whilst a raw surface that has been welded at a high temperature is made well behaved through the additional treatment of powder - coating.

A certain levity is quite typical of his work, for which he often makes use of intangible elements such as wind, air and transparency.