light-heartedness
lightheartedness

"No," Johnny told her, with a light-heartedness that he could scarcely have been feeling.

You want wit, light-heartedness, plausible human feeling, a sense of the absurd?

Dugan, with an attempt at light-heartedness, said: 'I know what it is.

Play - Bringing humor and light-heartedness to business and products.

'Nothing springs to mind,' Alyssia said with an attempt at light-heartedness.

Oh, you mistake my light-heartedness for double standards.

There was no trace of his previous light-heartedness.

Ah, vividly is her image before me now, as in the early days of her light-heartedness and joy!

It was a couple of minutes of light-heartedness in the middle of the ocean."

But her own light-heartedness made her feel tawdry.

He also drank about a third of the mead, which he found induced a pleasant light-heartedness.

We have a picture there, a picture of light-heartedness, of careless happiness.

Henry, a bitter rebellious invalid, with no trace of his former light-heartedness, told her she was mad.

Ski areas contribute to the light-heartedness by holding competitions that are playful and often slightly wacky.

He grinned at my relief with an easy-going light-heartedness a hundred miles from my expectations.

The company appeared to be oppressed by the same tremendous concealments, and had as little capacity of enjoyment or light-heartedness.

There were other reasons conducing to light-heartedness.

His fury at the violation of his privacy was fading, to be replaced by a light-heartedness that astonished him.

The resulting composition has an ambiguous mixture of seriousness and light-heartedness bordering upon erotic literature.

His light-heartedness seemed forced.

But now, as he observed Tynan's light-heartedness with his secretary, the suspicion seemed unreal and was gradually dispelled.

There was a lot of deep feeling in his little sister, Joe thought, in spite of her gaiety and light-heartedness.

Millions of people are going about the world at this moment, singing like larks out of pure light-heartedness, who don't even know of his existence.

"Folly" is used in the sense of fun or light-heartedness, not in the sense of something ill-advised.