Even in the charming opening scenes of children at play in St. Petersburg's Summer Gardens, the music's lighthearted spirit was quashed by this deliberately unnatural pretension.

The request says something about the lighthearted and pro-American spirit on the streets.

Haunt of medical students and other lighthearted spirits.

The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality.

A lighthearted spirit of holiday accompanied their preparations.

Whatever lighthearted spirit might pervade in imaginative design is left out in the cold.

It appeared to him that Chief Inspector Hemingway approached his task in a disquietingly lighthearted spirit.

The same lighthearted spirit pervades an exhibition, "Whimsical Wood Carvings by Janice Fenimore," at the Newark Museum.

Though she is in most ways the definition of a proper lady, she has a lighthearted spirit and occasionally enjoys being shocking.

Arenas's lighthearted spirit disappears during games when his fierce competitiveness and leadership emerge.