blitheness

Such blitheness will raise a few eyebrows among fashion professionals.

Orlando cursed the little god's blitheness and dragged himself to his feet, close to tears.

What does this mean for a show that has relied on an unending sense of youth and blitheness?

Under the blitheness is the desperation of one who knows she is not being attended to.

Her lips were strangely curved, but only blitheness and joy had gone to their shaping.

But Ashanti's greatest asset has always been her blitheness.

Seward was not prepared for so much blitheness; there was no other word.

Logan's blitheness begins to be marred by shallows of depression.

The transparent blitheness of the adieu underscores the evening's comic tactics.

All the blitheness was with Nikolaus; we others could not shake off our depression.

And it's true the work begins with a comic blitheness and detachment that immediately disarm.

Yet, despite his haste, Hermes traveled with less than his olden blitheness.

Nevertheless in her apparent blitheness, that made his soul black with opposition, she trembled as if she bled.

What has become of the blitheness, the invigorating good spirits with which the game of detection is played in so many of her stories?

"Oh, no," she said, with the blitheness of the scholar-expert she was, "it's authentic enough.

Nonetheless, the five cast members play their roles with a mixture of sincerity and blitheness that never stoops to a broad wink.

When Myrna sings "they called her frivolous Sal," a certain weight underlies the blitheness.

"Your blitheness is gone, son.

Rebecca said, feigning blitheness.

But that very blitheness minimizes the dramatic stakes and makes mockery of a situation that, for the characters at least, is a galloping nightmare.

It's the very blitheness they bring to rotten deeds that proves so funny - just as trivial acts performed with great gravity can be funny.

Then, with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike, he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck.

But Ms. Baranski's deadpan blitheness makes the questions sound worthy of Wilde.

Mr. Brokaw and his skilled ensemble eloquently and consistently evoke the uneasiness beneath the show's blitheness.

There's an Uncle Remus folksiness to the stories that sends the airy blitheness of the farce plummeting down to earth.