Sentences with phrase «of levity in»

Here is how we keep some sense of levity in an extremely complicated case:

I think it's unfair to condemn the judge for showing a bit of levity in what was likely a highly taxing proceeding.

Here is how we keep some sense of levity in an extremely complicated case:

And indeed, players looking for a bit of a levity in their gaming should probably bail now, since this sets the oh - so - serious tone for the game ahead, which at times is so straight - faced it seems to border on parody.

There's a refreshing amount of levity in the film without being cheesy or cheap.

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«Consider the acronym CALM: Communicate — more frequently and in a venue that works for your boss; Anticipate problems before they worsen, and have solutions; Laugh — use levity to help your boss keep a rational perspective; Manage up — set limits with your bosses diplomatically, and let them see the benefits of your suggestions.

I had a former friend who had a certain amount of success who once said to me, in all seriousness, without any levity at all, «I can't stand it.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

Some of those «boys» would be in the congregation, so imagine the consequences should the day's lessons include Ephesians 5, which says, «Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

While the objectified facts are invested with a certain levity, no longer fully sedimented, the logical subjects as an indicative system, on the other hand, restrict the freedom of the proposition to apply to any actual entity in absolute generality.

Be prepared for the fact that this is a long film, clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, with virtually no moments of levity or comic relief, dealing with brutally difficult subject matter throughout.

Most on here can throw in some levity and insight between their outpourings of anger.

Hodor provided fatalistic levity to one of the darker story lines in a dark show.

When you combine that with his late - season on - field success after Carson Palmer's torn ACL in 2014, it's clear that no one has mastered the balance between constant readiness and sideline levity that the position demands quite like the 10 - year veteran out of Michigan State.

So, address the levity of partaking in a sport like mountain biking.

In a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurIn a moment of courtroom levity, Caproni announced at the conclusion of Thursday's deliberations that a juror had sent a note informing the court that she had been summoned to serve jury duty in another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jurin another courthouse on Thursday, even as she served her seventh week on the Percoco trial jury.

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.

«While the sack of the security chief should be treated with dispatch and levity because whosoever descend into the arana of conflict will not escape the dust of the encounter, we should question the character of some of our elders we found their effusions rather too insensitive to bear especially in a country that is sitting on a delicate balance.

The cleric said the issue of Fulani herdsmen, who had wreaked havoc on some states in the North, must not be treated with levity.

I was less impressed by James Miller's oversimplified analysis of AIDS activism in the US, in an article which is marred by a tone of self - congratulatory and wholly inappropriate levity.

Robin utilizes the many tools of yoga therapy to address the particular imbalances brought on by the tides of change in mid-life, offering practices and practical understanding to help you live with more balance, grace and levity.

George Lucas's films had moments of levity, horror, action, drama, etcetera for a reason in different parts of the film.

No matter the season of life they're in, single men and women want a partner who can bring levity and lightness to the relationship.

The themes in Galveston are undoubtedly heavy, but the darkness is punctuated by moments of hilarious levity that take the edge off of Ray and Raquel's bleak circumstances.

An amalgam of Star Wars, He - Man and the Masters of the Universe, and Big Trouble in Little China, Waititi's fast - paced cosmic rock opera deftly blends laughs and levity with powerful emotional moments.

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.

Here, no such levity: Garland adapts «Annihilation» from the first in a 2014 trio of books by Jeff VanderMeer collectively known as the Southern Reach Trilogy.

There are signs of Bond bloat within many of the action sequences - it must be hard to trim such extravagant footage - but they are at least partly overcome by an increase in levity.

Here, there's an extended sequence tracking the blackmail of U.S. Congressman's assistant (played, in an all - too brief but memorable appearance, by Mary - Louise Parker, whose character treats the entire episode with unexpected levity — the acceptance of someone who knows she has been caught).

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.

But an excess of levity can quickly become its own kind of leadenness, and for long stretches between its genuinely amusing gags and set pieces, «Thor: Ragnarok,» credited to the screenwriting trio of Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, is a bit too taken with its own breezy irreverence to realize when it's time to rein it in.

There's also a little bit of sex, a few moments of levity provided by Miles Teller as a quipster whose allegiances are forever shifting (some levity is also provided by Elgort, though sort of accidentally), and game appearances by Octavia Spencer and Naomi Watts, who seems poised to take on a bigger role in the third and, ugh, fourth movies.

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.

Cue the international espionage - driven carnage that earned the earlier movie its action credentials, as well as the ample attempts at humour at the underlying idea's expense that endeavour to increase the levity of the situation, with both wrapped up in an overly, unnecessarily convoluted plot.

It's a compelling bit of mind - screwery that results in an anomalous crewmember appearing fused inside a wall, pieces of the ship turning up inside of other crewmembers, and, in a moment that provides the dour film with some much - needed levity, Chris O'Dowd has his arm chomped off by a wall.

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.

By 2016, when the first film was released, superheroes were already funny, but Deadpool 2 imagines an alternate timeline where the genre is still in desperate need of levity.

Host Seth Meyers brought a mixture of levity and earnestness to his opening monologue, in which he took verbal jabs at Woody Allen, Spacey, and Weinstein, whose absence from the ceremony was glaring in the wake of over 70 allegations of sexual misconduct.

In this clip Academy Awards winners Nicole Kidman and Dianne Wiest bring a warm sense of humor and levity to an emotional scene from the film.

As you work your way through the levels, he'll say insightful lines that reflect exactly what you're thinking in that moment which adds a great deal of levity to the gameplay.

The movie even manages to squeeze in moments of genuine levity courtesy of Udo Kier as a hilariously snooty wedding planner.

Michael Peña's portrayal of Luis in Marvel's «Ant - Man» adaptation brought a sense of real world levity to the otherwise wacky superhero action movie about a man who can punch harder when he becomes very small.

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.

Powerfully artistic in that uniquely Refn sort of way, The Neon Demon succeeds thanks to a vital injection of levity into the proceedings.

In this way, she also helps to give the game a fair amount of levity.

With splashes of unexpected humour providing a sense of levity, Special Treatment is ultimately an uneven yet intermittently engaging film that meanders in its musings.

When I spoke with Haggis and Phillippe on April 29, 2005, the serious issues brought up in the film were certainly prominent, but that didn't stop either of them from bringing some real levity to the mix.

In a largely grim field, an irresistible morsel of irreverent levity.

They're also irony - rich: what might seem superficially sprightly leads not to levity but to a reminder that each of Solondz's stories concerns a deeply unsympathetic person who, despite some measure of physical plenitude, finds him or herself in a position of almost total social isolation.