German Lutherans often note in a lighthearted fashion that the Bible never specifies that the "Weisen" (Magi) were men, or that there were three.

Despite the topical nature of the comic, the core of the stories revolved around the large family dynamic, and were presented in a lighthearted, easy fashion.

The event is treated in a very lighthearted fashion, including a large amount of socializing between rides.

Ms. Rinzler pursued a dual career as a specialist in publishing law and as a writer who dealt in lighthearted fashion with childhood and adolescence.

As a result, there has been "a desensitization of the category and the ability to treat it in a more lighthearted fashion," Mr. Mannino of Mentor said.

Lake had been telling Vietnam stories in a lighthearted fashion one day, but when I asked about that one, he suddenly grew uncomfortable.

The lighthearted, forward-looking fashions of the 1920s gradually came to halt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and succumbed to a more conservative style.

The stories sometimes turn macabre, but are presented in a lighthearted fashion.

They were in the garden room now, its doors opening out on to the glorious morning, talking about nothing much in a lighthearted fashion, when Sarre came back.