Lingering Mysteries: — The two guest stars in this episode provided much-needed levity, although the levity felt like inside winks to those of us who know the actors.
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Watercutter: Yeah, I found the moments of levity very necessary.
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But what happens when there's no levity to be found?
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Her essence, her generosity, her levity, it's all the same.
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But the levity shouldn't obscure the severity of the work.
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Amongst the darkness, there is a little bit of levity.
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Last week, the Air Force responded to the internet levity.
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CR: Maybe I can bring some levity to this debate.
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For her, the show's emphasis on levity complements that mission.
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On set, Díaz brings levity, joking about boys and books.
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Critics loved the movie's sense of humor, levity and charm.
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This time, there has been no such attempt at levity.
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I was looking forward to the levity and the laughter.
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It was one of the episode's few moments of levity.
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With that, I'll leave you with a bit of levity.
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The public editor's take: A little levity in movie ratings?
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The levity, though, is expertly layered into something more revealing.
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It's a journey into darkness, triumph, levity, and unimaginable pain.
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But maybe that's exactly why some approached it with levity.
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The offhand remark, perhaps an attempt at levity, drew swift criticism.
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Of course, emojis are commonly used to bring levity to conversations.
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We start out really intense, but there's moments of levity throughout.
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Stream some much-needed levity from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
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For some, the levity is welcome relief amid nonstop Zika headlines.
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There's a levity here today, because the urgency has shifted elsewhere.
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And he was the perfect person to bring a little levity.
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We all thank him for giving us some much-needed levity.
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Come on, you gotta have a little levity in this darkness.
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Yes, Titus and Lillian (Carol Kane) provide much-needed sitcom levity.
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Ben Stiller is adding some levity to the college admissions scandal.
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Wilde's levity helped to ease the heavy feeling in the room.
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Dire though the warnings were, the march was not without levity.
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But he did not seem to be in the mood for levity.
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It does provide a little bit of levity, which I can appreciate.
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This week, there hasn't been much levity to the work I do.
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But the film's infectious and understated levity sidesteps parable's moralistic heavy-handedness.
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The work's levity is bolstered by the artist's use of slow motion.
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It's easier to look at it with humor; it gives a levity.
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Fantasy novelist Victoria Aveyard brings some levity to life in Trump's America.
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He allows some levity into his campaign, and somehow we're still standing.
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Lord knows we're all going to need a little levity under Trump.
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But there was little levity between the two men throughout the day.
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He doesn't get too uptight, and finds levity in everything he does.
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When levity is needed, members have organized virtual dance parties like tfw.
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The selfie lines brought a joyful levity to her White House bid.
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A baby may even add some levity to the politically-charged chamber.
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It's challenging to try to maintain levity on a set of this kind.
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This rare spot of levity at the dreary five-yearly congress was telling.
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One of the hardest things for us to do is include that levity.
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Michelle Obama and George W. Bush brought a moment of levity to Sen.
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Isn't it time for Rhimes to add a little levity into Meredith's life?
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"Can't stand post-coital chats," he says in a rare moment of levity.
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But the pleasures of Hemmings's levity and wisdom more than sustain the reader.
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These podcasts cut through that kind of craven calculation and inject levity instead.
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But for levity, there's Paul Anka the dog dressed up as a swami!
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Especially now when, like us, you need trusted guidance, information, and also levity.
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It's too bad, because goodness knows we could use some levity these days.
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Jackson's lyrical cleverness goes a long way, then, toward maintaining an unlikely levity.
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Halo Wars 23 is just the right combination of frenetic urgency and cheeky levity.
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Let's commemorate every bit of levity featured on this season of Game of Thrones.
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A sense of youthful levity swells from Varda's octogenarian talks — alongside a sagacious optimism.
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These exchanges provide more than moments of levity in a film of spectacular violence.
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Box CEO Aaron Levie bought a certain levity to the situation with his Tweet.
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It's classic Morgan, with sharp dialogue, levity, and just the right amount of heart.
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As the fries plunked into the oil, she allowed herself a moment of levity.
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The joyous discovery The lottery pool began as a way to bring some levity.
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It's all pretty heady theory, but the results in practice are full of levity.
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Such is life: Deadly serious, but also constantly reminding us to seek out levity.
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The suggestion provided a moment of levity for at least some in the interview.
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At least try to provide some levity in everything and have fun with it.
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Chinese New Year is supposed to be a time for levity, celebration, and prosperity.
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What I find myself doing conversely is looking for the levity in my roles.
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Amid the fear and destruction, there have been moments of uplifting heroism and levity.
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The second seemed like an effort to bring some levity to a complicated situation.
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I love capturing these kind of pictures that bring levity to a milestone moment.
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In a moment of levity, Schiff encouraged senators to imagine that scenario playing out.
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It was a moment of levity in a ceremony that covered several serious topics.
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The designers avoided jarring juxtapositions, finding ways to balance moments of tragedy and levity.
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Aside from providing levity, some of these images actually demonstrate very impressive editing skills.
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We'll keep you updated with any more levity/relief that is surely to come.
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As we grapple with the tragedy, we're ditching the levity in this morning's 5 Things.
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The man who brought some levity to the ludicrous, some vim to counter the vitriol.
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Equally remarkable is Mr Aronofsky's ability to maintain a degree of levity bordering on farce.
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He gets the best lines, the biggest laughs and provides much-needed moments of levity.
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It's nice to see nature and to get a dose of levity while I work.
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But the sharp script and variety of tonal levity actually make it a natural fit.
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But there's a bit of levity amid the terrifying possibilities laid out in these documents.
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GUTFELD: I want to bring -- I actually like it when there&aposs levity and positivity.
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People are looking for this kind of levity with all the seriousness that's going on.
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Buttigieg, in a moment of levity, noted that he was a pre-teen in 1994.
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"And, for levity, watching Rubio beat Kasich on early vote is really funny," he wrote.
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There's never any danger that the intern might die, and the episode needs the levity.
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Cain said the poem added a little levity to what is normally a serious job.
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (2:23).
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (201:2555).
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She introduced a levity into the fashion space that I think the customer found refreshing.
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (27876:254100).
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (113:103).
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However, another moment of levity happened on Wednesday when Democrats broke into laughter after Rep.
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (2:15).
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A dark but powerfully moving drama, sprinkled, perhaps surprisingly, with moments of levity (2:193).
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Because there's some humor that comes from the set-up, some jokes and some levity.
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But his latest collection is a visual departure, striving towards a certain sweetness and levity.
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He has dressed in a banana suit during games to bring levity to his teammates.
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This electronic Columbian tropical funk band is a much-needed burst of levity and joy.
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The sensation is one of levity, suspension and translucence, yet the building remains human-scaled.
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He loved the levity, and the irreverent attitude to sex and death in my work.
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"And I think we need to deal with our social traumas with a little levity."
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Self-confidence, levity and positivity are exactly what America has lost and needs to regain.
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There are no features from Kelly Rowland, The Dream, or Kehlani to give this levity.
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"I hope I bring a curiosity and a much-needed levity," Ms. Higgins told me.
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But the levity masked a sense of unease, a fear that standards were not being met.
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Jokes fly between the astronauts and mission control, and there are moments of tension and levity.
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The event spawned countless alien rescue memes, whose levity, Mr. Lazar thought, sent the wrong message.
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You share the shot via a family group text, sit back, and allow levity to ensue.
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In retrospect it occurred to him that the subject is not one Argentinians treat with levity.
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Yet a roundtable Chris Murphy recently convened there on the issue included this moment of levity.
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The campaign was also not without moments of levity, such as when disgraced GOP state Rep.
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That bit of playfulness is an almost necessary dose of levity on a more serious cut.
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Last week, the Air Force could not resist injecting a bit of seriousness into the levity.
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This mix of high and low brow created a levity not usually felt at academic conferences.
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The country's economy has stagnated in recent years, and Belarusians certainly deserve a moment of levity.
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On the opposite wall hangs a display that offers some levity to such a stark reality.
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Mr. Peres, then the president of Israel, evoked both the weight and levity of accumulated wisdom.
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Democrat game is more three hours of levity and gamesmanship than solution to any grand problems.
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Domanik and Cave's relationship gives their filmed discussions moments of both frankness and occasionally, surprising levity.
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Indeed, Eligible's claim to originality is rooted in a seemingly innocuous but ultimately insidious homophobic levity.
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It's a time for costumes and levity, for shaking noisemakers to blot out the evildoer's name.
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Cling wrap brings levity and familiarity to sentences that might otherwise read as idiosyncratic or cryptic.
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As tense as this episode is, it has moments of levity, mostly involving Tom and Gregory.
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Adalín Rivera Sáez, the vicar who led the Mass, joked in a rare moment of levity.
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It was a moment of levity, Rounds recalled in what had been an exhausting two weeks.
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A bit of levity, or even just a smiley-face emoji, can go a long way.
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"Any other red carpet there's a sense of levity and light and kind of frivolity," Goodwin said.
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For as long as Twitter has existed, it has been a place of brevity, if not levity.
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They're also downright playful, and after a year like 2016, we could all use a little levity.
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Like the ethos of La maison rouge itself, the show revels in its fearlessness, madness, and levity.
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It is a mercilessly dark musical that eschews levity and heaps violence on top of more violence.
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It is a mercilessly dark musical that eschews levity and heaps violence on top of more violence.
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That's not to say there isn't levity to the way Nichols tells the real-life Lovings' story.
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But McCain seized the opportunity for a little levity by making a playful jab about Kutcher's looks.
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In this sophomore feature, she employs tenderness and cheek to give levity to an otherwise upsetting situation.
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American Vandal was a dose of much-needed levity amid, well, a downpour of real-life shit.
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Eli Stone specifically finds levity in its premise, keeping things silly even when Eli faces down death.
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"I was a very good long-distance runner," Mr. Sanders said in a rare moment of levity.
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Mr. PTSD pretended his sign would spread levity; Mark believed his essay would inspire people to persevere.
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I knew that someone like Tim Simons, who plays Dominic, would bring the levity to that role.
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Find the humor and levity in every situation and enjoy a night of flirting shamelessly with strangers!
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Many took to Honestbee's Facebook page to give them a few thoughts on their April Fools' levity.
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Amber struggled to match the emotional levity of writing about the loss of a parent, with Conexão.
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" He adds: "We want to attract people with levity and also a sense of optimism and aspiration.
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The persistence, levity, and glow of Goldie Hawn has lit up the American cinema of my lifetime.
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This brief Pineapple Express reunion is the sole moment of levity in the entirety of Alien: Covenant.
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It's from the British director David Mackenzie, who creates both levity and tension in his modest thriller.
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Olaf is certainly the highlight of the film & brings much needed levity to a pretty dark film.
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If it goes that way, the show's current levity could be countered with something much more grim.
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But Mr. Kelly managed to maintained a sense of levity, including dressing up in a gorilla suit.
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Intersecting the two starts to foster some familiarity and adds some weird levity to the whole thing.
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Among the stark images of barbed wire fencing and prisoners performing hard labor are moments of levity.
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But he said the judge liked to make people who appeared before him feel comfortable through levity.
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The beats were hard-hitting trap, but with a levity and playfulness that complemented Wai's relentless enthusiasm.
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When reporters made jokes he smiled weakly and politely, but he did not encourage levity or cynicism.
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Mr. Krakoff's injection of levity is not an unwelcome twist on the usual gilded or silvered theme.
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He also thanked everyone for giving him the courage to share and had a moment of levity.
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Word of the Day : showing inappropriate levity _________ The word flippant has appeared in 42 articles on nytimes.
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"Atlanta" specializes in the properties of blackness, the adjustment of heft and levity for bizarrely emotional effect.
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Amid the drudgery that has transpired during the hearings, it was a godsend to the internet. Levity!
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But I was happy for the moment of levity in what has been a pretty bleak season.
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Mr. Moon approaches daily tasks — like ordering ergonomic equipment or making signs for conference rooms — with levity.
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It's a brutal trip, though Naishtat smartly balances the heaviness with moments of levity and absurd comedy.
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It's a brutal trip, though Naishtat smartly balances the heaviness with moments of levity and absurd comedy.
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We're not saying, well, Levity will cost us $22,22019 to make, we need to get this much.
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Rather than protesting disorder, Douglas has embraced it, wittily transforming our concerns into cathartic sources of levity.
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Gone with him is any modicum of levity or joy Resurgence might have hoped to tap into.
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Cézanne and I could likewise use some levity to counteract the drudgery of point-by-point comparison.
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Despite the fraught political circumstances, there was a moment of levity at the Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep.
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In it, Paul jokes about the body and seemingly approaches the subject of suicide with an unacceptable levity.
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But, comedies also took on abortion, proving that even the most fraught topic can be handled with levity.
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You didn't think she'd let all of this levity be undermined by a little wardrobe malfunction, did you?
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Despite the levity of the giant balloon, people are serious about calling for Trump to release his returns.
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"It brings a little levity to what was a tough game at that point in time," Melvin said.
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Since its premiere in 2016, Easy has progressed much like life, with uneven doses of levity and tragedy.
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The two of them have a moment together in one of the few scenes of levity this episode.
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Griffin added some levity to the entire affair when he was asked to recount his conversation with Ariza.
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Since Friday, she has received dozens of emails from people thanking her for adding levity to their day.
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But there were also scenes of heroism and levity, many of which were shared widely on social media.
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The headlines associated with Irma and Harvey aren't all bad: There have been scenes of heroism and levity.
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He balanced it with levity by sharing videos of new greeting protocols (elbow taps and air fist pumps).
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Everywhere he goes he leads with levity and warmth, giving even his far-out disquisitions a humanist appeal.
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David Hockney the personality is as much responsible for that levity and magic as David Hockney the painter.
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With its various products, Raygun brings levity to the straight face of politics, social causes and Iowa stereotypes.
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Toews handles her tricky subject with grace and levity, but she never forgets how deadly serious it is.
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But she has a levity about her that you would not predict watching her fidget in the bleachers.
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Pilcher's levity is welcome at times, but the former stand-up in her is given too many lines.
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Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.
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The public's near obsession with Hillary Clinton's pantsuits has added a bit of levity to a long election cycle.
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A little levity: Jimmy Kimmel again reminds us many Americans still think Obamacare and ACA are two different things.
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Instead, it appeared to be Trump's way of injecting levity into what remains a deeply fractured Washington-Moscow relationship.
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But it also brings some levity, and humanity, to a genre of app that had never previously seen either.
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"It needed to be someone kind, inspirational, motivating, funny, with gravitas and as much depth as levity," Markle writes.
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This is totally useless, but could add a little much-needed levity and whimsy to your scary movie night.
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The conversations are intimate, in-depth and far-reaching, with the levity and humor Dave's fans know and love.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy star also adds some levity to this gritty world with well-timed comic relief.
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A quick cameo from a different Jack would certainly bring some levity to This Is Us' weekly cry fest.
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Using levity to engage existential questions is familiar territory, but Tunkl takes it one step further by inciting curiosity.
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His bedpan-heavy montage was perhaps unnecessary, but added some levity and was an excellently edited bit of filmmaking.
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It was sad, of course, but I also remember there being lots of moments of weird levity or comedy.
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But it's also a story about the small moments of levity that allow one to endure what comes next.
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Their little post-title stinger is the only real bit of levity in the entire, depressing-ass trailer. Sorry!
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She lived with my depression and my no-writing fury and with the rare moments of levity, of clarity.
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Shakespeare's characters are famously full of levity and laughter to counter the heady treatises on the nature of power.
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Nothing is taboo, but the hosts and guests use levity and empathy to welcome in a wide audience. 4.
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J.C. In one of the sharpest speeches of the night, Ms. Baez made room for both politics and levity.
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There's 's not much levity in politics today, save for "New Yorker" satirist Andy Borowitz and maybe The Onion.
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Throughout the exhibit, a certain naïveté or levity takes the place of vitriolic lamentations about gender, race, and culture.
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There are definitely moments of levity throughout the film, which are often shot through with something like gallows humor.
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The same combination of idealism and levity marked his two collections of essays, "Inside Dance" (1980) and "On Dance" (1992).
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And her father will embrace a new role as the first first gentleman "with seriousness and also levity," Chelsea said.
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" Even a minor character gets an update to add levity: "Zack's dog, Cheese, moved in with Zack's dad and stepmom.
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This episode may be trying to inject some levity, but the threats of casual violence are still all too real.
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There are moments of tragedy and moments of levity — Legolas literally surfs on a shield down a flight of stairs!
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As in real life, there are moments of surprising levity amid the loss, and relationships that strengthen as others suffer.
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The Eleven O'ClockDirector: Derin Seale and Josh Lawson The Gist: This Australian short brings a little levity to the category.
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In all, the day provided moments of joy and levity in what has otherwise been a tense and burdensome season.
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" She continued: "I made a comment in jest to infuse levity and I feel terrible that I have hurt others.
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Of course, Rubio's supporters were just trying to inject some levity into the fundraising grind — and who can blame them?
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"I feel like this season, selfishly from my perspective, has a little bit more light and levity," Moore told E!
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Miller's at-bat in the eighth in which he struck out provided a moment of levity in a tense contest.
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Lighthizer's team injected a note of levity into proceedings on Thursday that has often been missing in the grinding talks.
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Tweets about the renderings of Swift have provided levity for some in an otherwise serious case of alleged sexual assault.
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I don't mind levity, but I always find something deeply sad about this kind of gag in a video game.
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The Star Wars movies had levity and Han Solo, but the previous Expanded Universe was overly credulous and often dour.
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Because she was stereotyped for years as an angry black woman, the humor and levity in Piper's art went underdiscussed.
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There's almost no levity, other than some happier times spent with Lena and Kane during the film's non-linear narrative.
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Pundits said she should smile, not cough, not laugh, not condescend, show some levity, provide substance and entertainment, and more.
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And here is every 226 candidate roasted via haiku by a comedy writer to add some levity to your night.
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Long before the invention of political correctness, the larrikin was eschewing convention, resisting mainstream respectability and adding levity to politics.
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It's a hilariously lively scene, and though levity isn't the traditional tone, it works superbly here, subtracting nothing of substance.
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For some, that means rewriting the lyrics to their favorite songs to bring a little levity to a grave situation.
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It's Jackson's life outside the investigation, which Dunn explores with deftness and levity, that really brings the book to life.
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So, if you're craving a little levity, read this hilarious roundup of the rudest things kids have said to parents.
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On Wednesday, Mr. McCarthy and aides to Mr. Ryan repeatedly sought to frame the episode as a stab at levity.
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Subject matter oscillates between deep seriousness and devout levity—a tear that begins to threaten the purity of the mission.
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Am I mitigating my sobering condition with the levity the first sips convey and, yes, the oblivion later mouthfuls deliver?
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The final stretch is much more self-serious than is typical for BoJack Horseman because there's less room for levity.
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I liked it: the levity and spontaneity of topics that's not possible when there's a shared history, good and bad.
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Probably people who don't take themselves so damn seriously and have the ability to bring some levity to the team.
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On Thursday night, Barkley added another moment of levity to the broadcast while discussing the upcoming NBA All-Star Game.
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Even so, an equilibrium of professionalism and levity has steadied the Sharks in their quest for their first Stanley Cup.
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Meanwhile, Davidson found levity in the split at the Judd & Pete For America benefit for Swing Left in West Hollywood, California.
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Barbara Bush was a fabulous First Lady and a woman unlike any other who brought levity, love, and literacy to millions.
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Ultimately, these attempts at levity by the airlines say less about their sense of humour than about their sense of desperation.
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But being a straight man requires its own layers of levity, something Crowe just doesn't seem to possess in his soul.
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It's the rare book that can achieve an appropriate balance between heaviness and levity, and it's my favorite kind of novel.
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Because yeah, the circumstances are sad, but Justin is able to be this moment of levity and light for Clay sometimes.
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With the amount of fake news going around about the Kardashian family, they probably could use all the levity they can.
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The benefit of this approach, is that it creates a game so as to add levity to a potentially tense situation.
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And while it could come off as preaching to the converted, they are sentiments that offer levity in the darkest moments.
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As you know, Culkin was close with Paris' father and is Paris' Godfather ... hopefully, his show provided some levity for her.
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The horror of 2016 had finally ended and we didn't know what was ahead, except for a weekly dose of levity.
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In true Chrissy Teigen fashion, the Bring the Funny star is finding a way to add levity to a difficult situation.
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A photograph showing him standing next to a grinning passenger spread rapidly on social media, contributing to the sense of levity.
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After some levity, Wilmore makes a powerful point about the way society tries to rationalize the irrationality of deaths like Sterling's.
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The tension between what we see and what we hear of Emily's life provides the film with much of its levity.
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Much of the levity is due to Mark Rylance, returning to the theater he once led to play the reptilian Iago.
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The pair have provided Americans with some levity during the outbreak, bickering on air about who is their mother's favorite child.
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The author uses herself as a protagonist, as the title tells us; there's dialogue from a child, which offers some levity.
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Broadway audiences for "Grand Horizons" are getting a rare glimpse of this 80-year-old actor's secret weapons: levity and equanimity.
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But, as in all rough times, you can eventually find some moments of levity if you look long and hard enough.
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Luckily, a former "Friends" star injected some levity into the situation by ordering movers to "pivot," giving fans a nostalgic chuckle.
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Trump's audience first reacted to the statement with muted laughs, prompting the president himself to follow up with levity, as well.
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J.) injected some levity into the deposition, plugging his Twitter account and prompting some light (if puzzling) ribbing from his colleagues.
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As Peik Lin, she brought levity to lighten Rachel's (Constance Wu) drama, with a nice assist from Ken Jeong as her father.
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While Sunday's show promises plenty of levity — Jimmy Kimmel is hosting after all — some guests will likely hit a more serious note.
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For the audience who never watched The Fosters, the show is welcoming, balancing sauciness, sexiness, levity, and emotional weight with deft hands.
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The romantic reverberations of her excellent last album, "This Is My Hand," share a similar levity while ruminating on intimacy and confidence.
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Sherry Strong, an author and clean-eating advocate, took Steve Martin's MasterClass with the hope of infusing some levity into her work.
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In a sweet moment of levity, she gestured at her daughter's pants, which were almost a half a foot short, and smiled.
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Kumail Nanjiani added a touch of levity to the montage, but his words still remained grounded because of how true they rang.
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That's a good thing: Avatar's brand of humor is alive and thriving here, adding some much-needed levity to otherwise dire circumstances.
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Ultimately you need levity... I don't work well unless I'm really happy, and I don't like to torture the people around me!
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An exhibiton that gives levity and space to a frequently neglected subject, Summer Reading feels neither fluffy nor light, but surprisingly mature.
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"Brands played it safe, using a lot of levity and humor," said Derek Rucker, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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But the Hollywood star also had a few moments of levity at the hearing, at one point blowing a kiss to Sen.
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The star had a moment of levity when she acknowledged the incorrect assumptions about the reason she had called a news conference.
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Into that breach steps Spotify, which on Tuesday continued its now annual tradition of finding some levity among its users' listening habits.
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It robs the serious stuff of its levity and wit, and robs the lighter fare from any bite it might otherwise have.
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It's fun to see the harshness of Game of Thrones tempered with some levity in the form of my favorite summertime treat.
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Though Donald Trump's travails have given us our moments of levity, they weren't a match for the Watergate Follies—until this week.
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The songs are brief, ornamented with subtle bits of spoken word and patchwork soul samples that add moments of levity and warmth.
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This presidential contest seems to have brought out the longest knives, the lowest level of politeness, and the least amount of levity.
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There's no levity or break from the insistence that what we're watching is a very important story about a family falling apart.
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His work is highly produced, created by a team of collaborators who add levity to the idea of a more democratic network.
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"Some of the narratives I work with can feel heavy and adding flowers balances it with some levity and grace," Airitam says.
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In a rare moment of levity, Mr. McAleenan asked the farmers who was caring for their crops as they met with him.
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But Mr. McQuarrie also plays with the location using some winking staging in a men's stall that introduces levity amid the blows.
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So leave it to Schwartz, Sandoval, and the rest of the Vanderpump gang to bring some levity to a very heavy world.
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This raises the issue of their agency, particularly when it comes to sex, but Mr. Aiello mostly uses the situation for levity.
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Such characters are often droids or aliens used for comic relief, adding levity to what can be a tense action-adventure story.
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As Henry, he retains his signature charm and levity, but there's an edge there that wasn't as present in his past work.
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Now, the league, by not handling the Astros cheating scandal with the levity it deserves, is screwing up its tradition and history.
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We tried to balance the pace of breaking news with some levity, like cuttlefish wearing 3-D glasses and a squirrel census.
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Taking a look at Team LeBron, my bench may need some moments of levity in what could turn into an ugly game.
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But where Mastromonaco employs levity and aplomb to charm readers, Tamblyn writes with a gnawing, visceral directness to thrust them into action.
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Rooted in the specifics of the author's childhood years in the 1980s and 1990s, it has a nostalgic bent with moments of levity.
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Songs by Queen, Liberace, Debarge, TLC, Wu-Tang, Janet Jackson, C&C Music Factory, and others add levity and joy to the proceedings.
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Of course, Conway shouldn't hawk Trump family merch on television, even if in a moment of levity, she was trying to be funny.
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Third, I was grateful in this season to see the microaggressions brown folks often encounter at work depicted with both seriousness and levity.
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What isn't new is the idea that sometimes, in the face of frustration, hopelessness and tragedy, levity can be a much-needed balm.
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Other people added a bit more levity to the situation:But sometimes the unedited interactions said more than anything the internet could conjure up.
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Kavanaugh's testimony was petulant and angry, a stark contrast to that of Dr. Ford who was apologetic and even attempted moments of levity.
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This journey is anxiety-filled, so to have someone there who could joke and give moments of levity was so needed for me.
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But there have also been a few moments of levity, like when people recently discovered going outside while playing Pokemon Go this weekend.
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That's bleak, but the magic of Blackstar is its balance of these dense musings on mortality with cooling levity and wry literary allusion.
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On a stressful night, it's so important to have levity because at the end of the day, finding love should be seriously fun.
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And in the case of Otis, the dog spotted carrying a bag of dog food, a moment of levity amid a major disaster.
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Some readers might feel that too much levity surrounds some disturbing matters — a farcical deathbed scene, the humiliations of colostomy bags and incontinence.
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"There will be no more birthday celebrations, birthday cakes, levity or celebrations of any kind within the office," the boss wrote on Feb.
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Ms. Apfel, the Icon Award winner, brought a dash of levity to the night of networking, long-winded speeches and insistently earnest congratulations.
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So for a while, Twitter acted like the first lady had revealed herself to be Queen Bavmorda, and all was levity and mirth.
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In some way, these moments of levity feel almost grossly misplaced, which has the strange effect of also making them feel just right.
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Why not just throw Rambo in the mix to inject some much-needed fun and levity and evil mutant monsters into the franchise?
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I long for games to get their hands dirty, to put real villains and real bastards on the screen without levity or irony.
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That's what I've always struggled with with other songwriters in this tradition I'm supposed to be a part of: where is the levity?
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"In times like this, it's important that you do what you can and maybe even provide a moment of levity," Keller told CNN.
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Shaq wasted no time firing back ... leveling a direct physical threat at the Warriors big man that had ZERO of O'Neal's trademark levity.
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King sought to add levity to the notion of death among his soldiers, Young says, eliciting a chuckle of fond remembrance from Jackson.
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"This was an attempt to poke a little fun at myself and add a little bit of levity to the event," Spicer said.
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To some, that makes it less worth saving: but even that levity should remind us how easily genius can mask pain and dysfunction.
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Roberts, who declined to comment for this story, is unlikely to engage in such levity or don anything but the standard black robe.
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" Sharing a long list of hopes and dreams for his second-born, Zuckerberg also added some levity, writing, "I hope you're a great sleeper.
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It adds levity and a dash of detachment so that we may exchange information without feeling bound to one point of view or another.
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For the most part, both regard the coincidence with a certain amount of levity, though you wouldn't say either embrace it with open arms.
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He used a black marker to write a stream-of-consciousness story with numerous moments of levity around the entire length of the case.
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There's a great montage of Boo walking around in Caputo's suit that adds just the right amount of levity to an otherwise heavy episode.
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Although it deals with subject matter that is somber and tricky, we were able to bring a lot of levity and humanity to it.
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Darius is the show's lone reliable source of levity, so when things aren't buzzing harmoniously on his weirdo astral plane, morale is low overall.
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However, Suwage's use of humor through the inclusion of masks injects an element of levity in his works that undercuts the actions of fanaticism.
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Here is a lavishly flawed opera — a lush, static, lengthy musical layer cake — that achieves levity, and even demonic delight, through Mr. Carsen's interventions.
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Aside from one silly moment in which Kevin asks a man in a koala costume for directions, there's not a lot of levity here.
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The instantly iconic movement served as as a moment of levity during a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
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But before members took to their respective corners for the 12-hour day of partisan debate ahead, they shared a brief moment of levity.
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With the spring 2017 collection that I presented last summer, I was speaking of levity, of optimism, and it fit perfectly with Los Angeles.
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It looked like a snow angel, but also like a mummy — an image of both levity and dolefulness, neither all good nor all bad.
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It's a breather that Peele uses for light jokes and intimacy (Duke's amiable performance provides levity and warmth) while he scatters narrative bread crumbs.
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The debate, which injects levity into the show while remaining absolutely serious, lasts for about 15 minutes of the show's 100-minute run time.
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"There's a certain levity to Kurt, as some of you guys know that deal with him or see him dealing with referees," Jackson told reporters.
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Without shying away from anything, Life is Strange 2 demonstrates how levity and togetherness in the face of trauma is an absolute necessity for survival.
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Lee's political aspirations seem to be a goof, but in this dreary ugly violent presidential year, a little levity is just what the Spaceman ordered.
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His moments of levity are like little rest stops on the thorny path through the loss and redefinition of faith as a gay black man.
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No doubt, there's also a critical edge to Loincloth's depiction of Satan that works in tandem with the levity and the general horror-inspired aesthetic.
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Nothing, really, but it did provide a moment of levity and joy for a candidate known more for his dour demeanor than a sunny disposition.
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A portrait of two young brothers by English artist Francis Cotes brings a bit of levity to the exhibition, along with an exercise in contrasts.
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A sudden sense of levity could be due to the fact that the holiday weekend looms ahead and your vacation brain has already kicked in.
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He was horrified by the carnival atmosphere of the hanging, where he saw only "ribaldry, debauchery, levity, drunkenness and flaunting vice in 50 other shapes".
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He feels the reunion show for contestants who vied for Rachel Lindsay's love was way too heavy ... and could have used his song for levity.
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Jays manager John Gibbons added some levity to the evening when, coming out to call on ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte, he signaled with both hands.
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Simultaneously obsequious, pathetic, and pitiable, Phiri brings a physical comedy to the role that provides much-needed levity, especially given how grim the narrative turns.
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Whether you find him a much-needed source of levity or an annoying distraction will depend on your tolerance for 13-year-old boy humor.
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No doubt other historians have been more blasé about larger body counts, but the author's excitement and levity makes the whole project a bit unseemly.
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He lends levity to a film, whether he's trying to drag Thor's hammer away with a truck or doubting the existence of superheroes at all.
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They want a dynamic relationship that feels more like a conversation between journalist and reader, and they welcome a little levity mixed into their news.
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I tried to work in some levity and some wholesomeness (pop-punk provided the former; hip-hop the latter), but I mostly wrote about misery.
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Lord knows my beloved MMA could use a spark of levity sometimes (something my favorite fighters at Invicta FC certainly seem to be down for).
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Clint Howard A guest appearance by the always funny Clint Howard as a devious Orion man added levity to a show mostly devoid of it.
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"I was just really alarmed at African stories only portraying struggle and war and famine and AIDS, and I wanted to add levity," she said.
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In the House Judiciary Committee hearing room on Thursday, where the panel convened for only about 10 minutes, there were some moments of levity, too.
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But after a year of such bombast, many in the audience at the United Nations treated him almost as a source of levity, not fear.
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Though they more or less speak the same language, Guk Minsung and Yoo Nanhee often don't understand each other, especially in moments of attempted levity.
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The book "abounds with moments of dark humor, but the levity is balanced by Mabanckou's portrait of a dysfunctional society," our reviewer, Joshua Hammer, wrote.
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She has a very natural charisma, she has levity, and a lightness in her spirit, which I hadn't even conceived of when I was writing.
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I understand Shortz' reflex to hold back such dark information given the levity of a puzzle, but not doing so may have made matters worse.
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As the comic relief, he brings a great levity to so many scenes that might otherwise just be occupied by the gruff diction of Geralt.
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"This was an attempt to poke a little fun at myself and add a little bit of levity to the event," Spicer told the Times.
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Because she's not confined by a conscious commitment when creating the smaller works, they have comparatively more levity and humor than her large-scale paintings.
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They're serious when the action calls for it (as when a fellow officer has fallen), but they mostly turn up to add levity to the proceedings.
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It's a lovely day for self care as the moon moves through your sign, and today self-care means treating yourself to fun, adventure, and levity.
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It's Murphy who brings some levity to the series: Sarcastic and sharp-witted, Murphy knows what everyone expects of her, and uses it to her advantage.
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After a shaky beginning, the mostly fine actors do well balancing the levity and poignancy of the play, whose temporal scope makes a balm of remembrance.
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He forgets that even superhero comics have moments of levity or sorrow or something else in between their masculine brooding and their even-more-masculine punching.
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Anyone who can't appreciate a drop-top during the span of warm months either has no levity in their heart, or no adventure in their soul.
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But despite Venus' levity early in the week, we'll plunge into deeper waters on Saturday, when the sun slips into soulful, sensitive Pisces until March 20.
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The song is a gripping torrent of fury and resentment, levelled at a cheating lover—and the other woman—but bolstered by moments of sideways levity.
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Alabamians retained some levity during a bruising special U.S. Senate election that pitted an underdog Democrat against a Republican facing accusations of sexual misconduct with teenagers.
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The production, directed by Anne Kauffman, has a cool, almost clinical temperature that feels just right, although there are moments of casual levity and much warmth.
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The romantic reverberations of her excellent last album, "This Is My Hand," released in 2014, share a similar levity while ruminating on intimacy and self-esteem.
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I don't think I am; I think I'm the character who has levity but I also think the other characters equally bring humor to it all.
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This is one of the show's major feats: There's always a carefully deployed joke, a laugh-out-loud sight gag, or inventive animation to add levity.
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"Go easy on me, kid," Biden said at the start of the CNN debate in Detroit, a moment of levity a month after her busing attack.
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But surely we still have the levity, and the taste buds, to look past the White House and beyond Hollywood and tremble before a lesser boogeyman.
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Scenes like these inject sweetness and levity into an open-ended, essentially melancholic script (by Chon and Chris Dinh) that's obsessed with obligation, stasis and loss.
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And yes, it was conveniently aired on Thursdays, the point in every week where some levity and a dash of drama are exactly what everyone needs.
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And I'm also doing speaking engagements and doing panel discussions and things like that, and for any conference that needs some humor or some levity, yeah.
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But they undeniably brought levity to the show with their silliness — they once pulled a twin-swap during a date — and refreshing willingness to laugh at themselves.
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Right now, they're just thrilled that the upcoming year will be contain a little more levity and, for some, a shot at finally becoming a Vine star.
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Sure, there can be light moments here and there, but it's incredibly rare to see an actual joke or moment of levity in any of these movies.
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Adding levity to the ceremony was James Corden and Rebel Wilson who arrived on stage dressed as cats to give out the award for best visual effects.
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She carries out her responsibilities as a general with as much gravity as levity, and her effectiveness derives from a balance of raw power and careful tact.
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The cheerful style of the cartoons may seem an odd counterpoint to the unfolding, often-grim events, but McKagan's levity in the telling makes his story work.
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And then he added some levity when he suggested Trump could be his VP, and jump to the head of the ticket if he is ruled ineligible.
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The Dakota County Sheriff's Office posted a photograph of the card on their official Facebook page alongside a post thanking the man for the moment of levity.
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In fact, there are moments of levity and humor, plus a great deal of footage fans will appreciate of *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in their heyday.
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The supply drop also gave us Red and Blanca dancing to "Hot Cheetos & Takis," adding on to the Law & Order moment to provide some much-needed levity.
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Being able to tell a good joke, goof around in the office, and add some levity will reduce some of the stress involved with starting a company.
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Subjects like addiction, divorce, and mental illness are handled with a mix of sincerity and levity that makes all our messy lives seem, well, kind of beautiful.
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It gave us an opportunity to play these really nasty, wretched people, but also bring some levity to it in a way that is kind of cute.
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It's been a tough slog for firefighters battling a the Horns Mountain fire along the United States-Canada border, but it also provided a moment of levity.
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There was Gillespie's legacy for you: an entertainer who could entwine gravitas and levity, an ambassador for the younger generation's attitudes, frustrations and will toward self-representation.
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While some extreme acts allow for some degree of levity in their merchandise or album covers, Primitive Man's artwork is a clear extension of the band's ethos.
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Knowing where the story goes, how can I capture, at least for a moment, the levity of his childhood, when it was allowed to be a childhood?
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Often in Pousette-Dart's work, gravity and levity, bulkiness and softness are so equivalently palpable that the viewer feels both drawn into and levitated by their content.
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It was a short moment of levity for Trump before he laid out dramatic new guidelines aimed at curbing the spread of the virus and saving lives.
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" But then he also added a bit of levity: "What kind of homosexual would I be if I didn't say, 'It's June 10 — Happy Birthday Judy Garland!
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But instead of merely using humor to cope, a memetic focus on prevention methods has provided welcome bits of levity — and important information — during a growing crisis.
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It's that kind of levity that sometimes seems to be missing from Fox Sports' coverage with Troy Aikman, one of Romo's great predecessors in a Cowboys jersey.
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There's levity granted to Charlie that we don't get as much from Nicole's side, even as he is also clearly a fuck-up in his own ways.
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"The filmmakers, who grew up watching him with their abuelitos, craft a film with levity and a playful spirit," the film's description in the Sundance website says.
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It was unclear whether he was parodying false idols or suggesting that everyone love thy neighbor, but either way the mash-up provided both relevance and levity.
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May's levity, or that of any of the other lawmakers seen grinning and chuckling as the drama unfolded, but the proceedings were rife with insults and recriminations.
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A line of dialogue like "Oh, ho, ho, my man, let's not push me tonight," delivered with brittle levity, carries more menace than any outright threat could.
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Hello Belly's got you covered before and after your baby is born and helps alleviate some of your fears with a little bit of humor, art, and levity.
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After intense conversations, I desperately crave a coda—something to do that feels edifying, transporting, mutually supportive, and intentional, and that brings some levity to our time together.
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Here's hoping Sialelli embraces the levity and freedom Elbaz added to Lanvin's irreverent history as a female-led fashion house during his legendary — and still very missed — tenure.
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There's at least a little levity—although more tragicomic, really—in Yahoo announcing that its one-billion account leak in 2013 was actually a three-billion account leak.
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But amid the tense exchanges, there were moments of levity as lawmakers sometimes appeared to grow stir crazy inside the basement suite after hours of questions and answers.
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Directors as different as Jon Favreau (the first two "Iron Man" movies), Shane Black (the last one) and Kenneth Branagh ("Thor") have tried to install levity and classicism.
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The apparent callback to that warm moment in an oft-documented friendship between the two brought a moment of levity to the service celebrating a life well-lived.
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Images of the exchange swirled around the internet, offering some levity in an evening that was otherwise consumed by the widening fissures of discord within the Republican Party.
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"Barbara Bush was a fabulous First Lady and a woman unlike any other who brought levity, love and literacy to millions," George W. Bush said in a statement.
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When Aquaman chugs a bottle of booze before plunging into an angry sea, the movie hits the comic-book sweet spot between deadly seriousness and self-amused levity.
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But Child's quiet competence and moments of levity give me a strange sense of optimism, if only because I look forward to feeling both of those things again.
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Some levity came from Russell, who received the first Lifetime Achievement Award and responded with some trash talk — and then praise — for the big men who honored him.
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In a lovely bit of levity, she enlists Schmitt (Jake Borelli) and Jackson (Jesse Williams) to help her — and those two Gryffindors are not afraid to do so.
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In between start and finish, there are moments of levity and discovery in the machined product, but too often you can't see the movie for Marvel's action plan.
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"When we were thinking about how to make this more interesting than a stale factory tour, we thought they'd bring a certain levity to it," Mr. Panis said.
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At Mr. Putala's first one — "not a controversial hearing," is all he remembers of it — there was a moment of levity among the senators and the hearing witnesses.
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A brief moment of levity came when someone calling into the meeting played a snippet of a cheerful song that starkly contrasted with the grim tone of the call.
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Even grimmer, darker superhero pictures like Avengers: Infinity War and Venom pride themselves on their moments of levity; superhero movies without substantial jokes are usually derided as oppressively humorless.
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I would say that it brought a ton of levity and joy into the design process itself, because it is in the space that you work and live in.
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It was a lone moment of levity in an interview that covered the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, the 2020 election, questions about the Trumps' character and more.
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"Always, there is a woman," the president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, said in a brief moment of levity in the early stages of the crisis at Larnaca International Airport.
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It's one of many moments of levity in a film that recognizes that, even when abortion is a woman's instant and unequivocal choice, it can still carry emotional weight.
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"The vibe I get from my followers and friends is that it's a relief to consume something that is still topical, still critical, but has some levity," she said.
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That sense of calm, even levity, about the virus permeated places like Battle Creek late in the week, even as the first cases were confirmed in Michigan and Gov.
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Maybe it was the president's way of bringing some awkward levity to a day that will be remembered for a high-profile cabinet departure and a looming government shutdown.
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But as a film, it's also completely watchable, with terrific performances, a great family dynamic, and lots of moments of levity to balance out the seriousness of the material.
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Prefigured by the smoke rings, the more recent pieces from the Scarlatti series, his best efforts in a long while, have a welcome — if still a bit stiff — levity.
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Arrange the list from least sensitive to most, then read it to someone before you start cracking jokes (researchers believe this vulnerability exercise greases the wheels for future levity).
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The episode prompted some levity on Capitol Hill, where Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, posted a sign on his office door announcing a "bodyslam-free zone" for journalists.
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Though these clips are all attempts at bringing a little levity into a pretty grim scenario, mainstream artists like Katy Perry and Madonna have totally fallen for the bit.
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But then he pointed out that the giant Soviet realist statue of Mother Armenia was holding that big knife only to slice basturma, and levity filled the small room.
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The decade's changing mores provide the backdrop for a larger cultural debate, as the show's lead writers disagree about the roles of levity, serious art and subversion in mainstream entertainment.
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Our job here is to bring a bit of light and levity to the end of your day in a world where it is becoming often too hard to find.
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He's not exactly workshopping comedy bits, but you can always count on Scott to add a little levity to a dire situation (and probably a Back to the Future reference).
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Not only did it demonstrate Arya's tenacity and determination to become the best warrior she can be, but it also provided some levity in an otherwise intense seven-episode run.
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She's been running her channel, FarAwayDistance, since she was in middle school and, now 22, she's basically a pro, tackling complex religious topics with openness, honesty, and, most importantly, levity.
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Satyal's utterly charming novel about Indian Americans assimilating well and not so well in the Midwest contains just the right blend of sorrow and levity to bless your beach bag.
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Are you ever concerned, with the clowns and the naked Trump for instance, that you're using too much levity in these pranks given the seriousness of the issues you're addressing?
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While there's plenty of levity during Saturday morning rehearsals – when else can you hear Jared Leto riff on "merkins" or see Whoopi Goldberg wearing clogs decorated with kitty-cat faces?
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Just like black ink is boldest on white canvas, the umpteenth over-the-top firefight is afforded some vital levity when you're taking cover behind a caution wet floor sign.
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Meanwhile, Davidson found levity in the split during his stand-up at the Judd & Pete For America benefit for Swing Left over the weekend, where he joked about the breakup.
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Illuminati's notes can help us do just that, adding an element of levity and solidarity to the often isolating and thankless job of raising up small humans into decent people.
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Yet the unadorned style does keep all focus on the story as it moves from wrenching sadness to outrage, with just enough moments of levity to sweeten the bitter pill.
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Those who know him well say he draws strength from the condition, and describe him as a forceful character whose mood can switch from levity to deadly seriousness very quickly.
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Roach has a proven gift for connecting with readers who are not normally into science, through levity and accessible, cleareyed prose — neither of which precludes her from doing weightier work.
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She had to have just enough levity, mixed with substance, to be stern but not shrill, funny but not flippant, smart but not pedantic, able to stand up to bullying.
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She gets straight to the point, but with a levity that lets you know she's having a great time — and that she wants you and your partner to, as well.
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Both sides shrugged it off and joked about it, but then again since the Blue Jays have hit so well in the last two games, they can afford some levity.
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"I wanted to put something out there for you guys so we can have some levity in these bizarre times," he said, as his wife Nancy Juvonen operated the camera.
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It was one of several moments of levity from a group of students who appeared largely unfazed by the pressure, with their parents in the audience often looking more unsettled.
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"Never Leave Me" (season 7, episode 9) Andrew doesn't always work as a character — he can be one-note — but he injects some much-needed levity into season seven here.
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As it turned out, his welcome levity did nothing to mitigate a much more severe Model 3 production hell, which was ultimately the production hell to end all production hells.
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But Emmanuel, who identifies as nonbinary, said that Gritty was less about trolling than levity and that many left-wing activists identified with the mascot's cheerful, unkempt and maniacal demeanor.
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"I wanted to put something out there for you guys so we can have some levity in these bizarre times," he said, as his wife Nancy Juvonen operated the camera.
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The film still has moments of levity, as shown in the trailer when an overexcited Hagerty attempts to embrace and lift Driver, but only wraps her arms around his waist.
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This prequel to that gripping crime drama unfurls the back story of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), the scheming lawyer who offered "Breaking Bad" some much-needed levity as Saul Goodman.
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The National Republican Senate Committee, for its part, has hammered Heitkamp on an apparent moment of levity with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after she voted against an abortion ban.
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For Earl, whose live sets ere on the darker side of the genre, tracks like "Wear Her Pussy Out", his inscrutable contribution to Rashad's posthumous Afterlife, offer moments of levity.
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More temporary levity follows at the siege in Riverrun, where Bronn plays the cad to Pod's straight man in a scene that sounds fun on paper but proves weirdly tiresome.
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The documentary has moments of levity, too—after the WikiLeaks founder finds his way to the Ecuadoran embassy, he is visited by Lady Gaga, who grills him in an impromptu interview.
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It's an ability the 26-year-old actor has honed over the course of his 10-year career, able to dart between characters who deliver both outlandish levity and pitiable despair.
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Marvel's films have always had a flair for comedy, but Infinity War turns the dial up further, maximizing the levity found in movies like Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Seasons: 4Episodes: 31While the other shows on our list all offer some levity along with their drama, "Last Chance U" is a reality show that will often leave you feeling gutted.
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These Harris stops have had a lot of levity (as you can tell from photos) but there's also a strong component of community activism & female business owners overcoming hardship to succeed.
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Both sought levity and, perhaps, a celebrity: the rooftop bar, about two months old, advertised that Frank Sinatra had loyally visited a previous iteration, for drinks and, maybe, a heartbreaking song.
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It's a much lighter play — almost any play onstage right now is — but while the events in "Eclipsed" are painful to contemplate, even this corrosive drama has moments of welcome levity.
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For readers who need a bit of levity and tenderness in their comic pulls this week, one of the brightest lights on the shelf is the Japanese import Sweetness and Lightning.
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When I've heard you talk about death, you speak about these heavy topics with reverence, but also with a certain amount of levity, as if this is also not that serious.
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Simons tells me he often had doubts while outlining the game's splashy, mirthful aesthetics, fearing the world at large might misconstrue its cheerful levity as a direct repudiation on the Movement.
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As other candidates have discovered, levity can be an extremely effective way to coalesce voters around a nominee, especially the young people who are a key part of Mr. Sanders's constituency.
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It's nice to see that even during such a troublesome time, people are still using their creativity and humor, not only to help out but also to provide a little levity.
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Highs: The two monster hunting brothers at the center of this drama are easy to root for, bring levity to an at times dark premise and not bad to look at.
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Christmas In The Heart functions as a wink to the audience, a little levity for Dylan between 2009's gruffly traditional Together Through Life and 2012's doleful, death-obsessed Tempest.
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"This is a way to help people have a little levity and join together and have a laugh, and be able to find humor in these difficult scary times," she said.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), she would be appearing with Yang in Iowa in large part because of the levity his personality brings to the 2020 race.
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It shows the darkness and levity, the devotion to individual and group perfection, that has accompanied the evolution of cheerleading from glee clubs with pom-poms to a fiercely competitive sport.
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Except that one thing... In one of YOU's most twisted instances of injecting levity into the dark, Joe has to pee, badly, while stalking Peach and Beck at the Salinger house.
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As a Pisces Saturn native, you're a beacon of light in the darkness of the world, and your faith and compassion are a source of levity to those suffering from loss.
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"My idea was that we should use music to give the film a little bit of levity, without taking away from how serious the subject matter is and these characters," Currier says.
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Mark Neville, a photographer, has travelled the world on assignments and found himself drawn to the ways in which children adapt to extreme situations by conjuring up moments of levity and fantasy.
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" In an interview with the New York Times, Spicer said the gag was "an attempt to poke a little fun at myself and add a little bit of levity to the event.
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In news that may ruin your day: Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, the couple who brought a little levity and love to the shitstorm that is 2018, have broken off their engagement.
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" The levity was a necessity because, says Smith, a good-natured child of show business (her mother is publicist Lois Smith), "when we filmed it was like a cloud came over us.
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This is the moment when we see whether the levity Swinney has displayed all season long can carry over to a team that, at some point, will have to let it fly.
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There are strong echoes of her Booker-winning voice in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Her writing is still suffused with the delightful whimsy and levity of The God of Small Things.
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"The tweet was a kind of off-kilter attempt at levity that missed the bullseye," Willett said, promising to "absolutely" have an "open mind" to a transgender person appearing in his courtroom.
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Moments of levity punctuated the somber tone, such as Bloom's rendition of "F---ton of Cats" and Erich Bergen's performance of "Man in the Mirror," all with backup from Stoneman Douglas students.
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In a world where headlines barrage readers with news of mass attacks on humanity, the inefficacy of elected leaders, and sexual predators in power, finding levity in it all can feel counterintuitive.
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It's all been so dire and draining that it's forced the citizens of the world to cling to any moment of levity or man in a red sweater that they can find.
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Aside from these brief moments of levity, the rest of the documentary is a grim foray into China's political repression machine, a complex web of unchecked corruption, misguided patriotism, and pervasive propaganda.
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At least they could laugh about it, blasting Lil Wayne's music at practice earlier in the week in an effort to introduce some levity into a tense time in the locker room.
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Addison Reed, the Mets' closer who has been traded twice in his career and can see the writing on the wall by now, has handled the situation with both levity and earnestness.
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Williamson in a series of Instagram posts on Wednesday said she is backing Yang because of his "self-confidence, levity and positivity" in the hopes of getting him past the early primaries.
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Building off of H&M's spring 2019 studio collection for the person who explores nature with a touch of glam, its fall 2019 offering aims to bring some levity to the world.
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In the darker first season, there are still some moments of levity, like Episode 22019, when Claire and Fleabag's trip to a silent retreat involves a woman getting wordlessly attacked by bees.
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"I felt helpless knowing that a bunch of my friends were going to lose their jobs, so I hoped that this could bring some levity to everything," he said in an email.
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Bendis's quick jolts of humor are also an asset for Civil War II. He's clearly comfortable and understands when to utilize Spider-Man, who manages to bring levity and brightness to the book.
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She tangles with Bruce Wayne as he investigates someone known as the White Portuguese, giving the moody billionaire some much needed levity; then shows up in a huge way for the big battle.
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Incorporating an arsenal of seething dayglo synths, Jimmy Urine aka James Euringer, adds some pep to the drudging, morose original by replacing its sense of burden with a more unhinged kind of levity.
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Lily Tomlin had one of the night's lighter, more levity-filled speeches, but got into it at the end: The Doomsday Clock has been moved up to 2 1/2 minutes to midnight.
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I try to be engaging, to vary my pitch and tone and the length of my sentences, to intersperse serious or technical passages with bits of levity, to coin the occasional evocative phrase.
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For all the dark shadows that fall over the canvas of Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, threads of levity and playfulness are woven throughout, reflecting the droll comedy we find in Kha's own work.
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I get a ton of really depressing submissions (I'm sure you can imagine), but I don't post those, because I'm just trying to bring a little bit of levity back to the internet.
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While other coming-of-age films depict young girlhood with quirky levity, the selfishness of young girls rebranded as subversive, First Match distinguishes itself as one that doesn't treat youth with kid gloves.
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That engagement and levity could be felt throughout the hopeful romance as we follow 15-year-old Connor's (newcomer Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) venture to pull together a ragtag band and impress a girl.
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It's an expressive approach that supports emotional levity while leaving space for lighter moments, and is at the heart of what'll drive you to see as much of the world as you can.
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Like the other Thor films, there's a lot of levity, particularly between Thor and Loki, and a surprising amount of gravity in Loki's "death" – which is once again undone before the movie ends.
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Sometimes, there is room for levity in life, but a few members of the Tennessee Air National Guard found out the hard way that a reenlistment ceremony is not one of those times.
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There needs to be funny moments, there needs to be moments of levity, but this is also about someone who is severely abused, how do we tell this story in a tasteful way?
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The main ingredient that the Fast & Furious films share with classic Bond films is also the main thing that keeps fans returning to them both despite their flaws: an underlying sense of levity.
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Ms. Hilty was well served by her musical director, Matt Cusson, whose fleet pianism injected a stream of playful levity into arrangements, including one of "Tenderly" that closely echoed Clooney's original 1952 recording.
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The day had moments of levity, as when Mr. Page told the plaintiff's lawyer, Francis Malofiy, that he had begun playing guitar at age 12 and was in professional recording sessions by 17.
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That's still plenty alive here, with funny scenes centered on about the roundness of Captain America's peach-shaped bottom, the physical silliness of Mark Ruffalo's oversized Hulk, and Thor's lunkiness adding needed levity.
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It captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters' life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them.
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The moon enters Taurus and brings levity to your life, Capricorn, and intriguing conversations take place in your relationships as Mercury retrograde meets sweet Venus, asking you to reconsider a choice or conversation.
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The latest clip, released today, drops a little levity into director Duncan Jones' videogame adaptation (maybe someone got the memo about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice being too much of a downer?).
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All video and photos courtesy of CloudMinds CloudMinds' humanoid service robot, Ginger, helped with hospital admissions, education services and, as can be seen in the video below, in providing a bit of levity.
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Nationwide teenage levity at the expense of a dull standardized test (that potentially reinforces economic disparity) is quite a bit better than other teenage trends, like slurping Tide Pods or bullying their peers.
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While the gathering was a somber one, there were moments of levity, with former teammates sharing fond memories of the Lakers superstar and former rivals paying their respects to Bryant one last time.
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But all that solemnity can be exhausting, and Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have turned to a text chain for moments of levity, exchanging GIFs, atta-boys and morale check-ins by phone.
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Daniel Craig has his edgier Bond, Connery had his poise, and Moore gave new meaning to the eyebrow raise, leaning into the levity of the films (for better or worse) more so than others.
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This eclipse is activating the sector of your chart that rules fun in your life: the parties you go to, the dates you go on, even the babies you kiss—anything that creates levity.
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The New Jersey Senator responded with a little levity Wednesday on Capitol Hill when our photog asked about Corey Lewandowski mocking a girl with Down syndrome being separated from her parents at the border.
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Like Rocklen's performance, it's colorful levity mimics the seductive quality of food packaging, although in Urrea's case the minimalism of her structures and their formal arrangement makes the Cheetos almost unrecognizable as something edible.
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George W. Bush turned his wit on himself, poking at perceptions he was dim and at his propensity to misspeak in speeches that are remembered as glimmers of levity in otherwise dark political times.
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Any potential levity is undercut by the film's unnaturally poetic dialogue and its seething anger at anyone who has the power to reduce Chicago's gun violence but refuses to act because it's politically inconvenient.
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As he and the other kids are fighting for their lives and their world, Dustin brings levity to their dire straits by exalting the beauty of chocolate pudding or charming viewers with his lisp.
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Most everyone in my family knew exactly why he might bring some levity to such a recollection: because without a sense of humor, much of what goes on in war becomes unbearable and debilitating.
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But the text attempts some levity with Tokyo's ice-cream-craving cat, and the final picture also soothes a bit: a scene of a row of houses with colorful vegetation on roofs and balconies.
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By using an undanceable, plodding beat, he divorced the idea of fun and levity from his hip-hop, an approach which appealed very strongly to his crossover audience of frowning, angst-ridden rock fans.
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Finding a way to insert a little levity when someone is feeling out of sorts may be just the thing to help everyone hit the reset button and begin again on a better note.
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Issa, who retired from Congress this year, sat in the front row of the proceedings, offering a moment of levity to a sometimes contentious back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats on the panel.
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"It felt like the exact right mix of talking about identity issues, gender issues and still having that thread of horror and so moments of levity," Schaefer said during a conference call with Bellaire.
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Mercury meets Venus on September 16, inspiring a flirtatious, social atmosphere and bringing some levity; however, the sun connects with Pluto on that same day, providing opportunities for intense, deep bonding and spiritual development.
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With that in mind, we put together a mega list of ways to connect right now—to keep boredom and isolation at bay, and to bring levity and exuberance to an incredibly dark time.
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" In addition to revealing that We're also treated to a moment of levity from Zuckerberg toward the end of the video when he humorously asks his baby daughter, "You think my Chinese is bad?
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Deftly translated by Helen Stevenson, "Black Moses" abounds with moments of dark humor, but the levity is balanced by Mabanckou's portrait of a dysfunctional society rent by corruption, poverty, political instability and tribal rivalries.
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Spuds is an extension of my lifelong fascination — envy, even — with the unalloyed levity and audacity found in a certain type of white, straight masculinity: early Beastie Boys, Ferris Bueller, 2011-2013 Justin Bieber.
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The Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo can add some levity to the misery of browsing vendor halls, perusing vendor websites, or sitting on a call that sounds more like a Turing test than a product pitch.
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British Vogue traditionally features a Q&A-format piece on its last page, and, Markle said, she wanted "someone kind, inspirational, motivating, funny, with gravitas and as much depth as levity" to do the honor.
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The Florida Republican presidential candidate jokingly revealed a federal alien facility during a sit-down with The Des Moines Register editorial board on Wednesday in a moment of levity during a conversation about federal land.
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A willowy Slovenian, Briški is in her forties but certainly has the levity and athleticism of someone younger—and with just a tinge of pink in her white-blonde pixie cut, she looks it, too.
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Ben Affleck's Batman cracks jokes — multiple jokes — in its short three-minute runtime, indicating that (finally!) we might be getting a DC movie with moments of levity rather than another 120 minutes of pure gloom.
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This created a dynamic that plays to great effect throughout Rumours, its sequencing giving the impression of a kind of constant brawl between members, with adjacent moments of anger and levity and longing and regret.
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Yet for all the darkness, there's a welcome and important dose of levity too, from a hilarious video of a beauty products fair by María Luisa Bemberg to Regina Vater's playful, costumed self-portrait photographs.
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Buttigieg also flashed a sense of humor when plugging his website to encourage donations, which was a welcome moment of levity in a debate defined by people shouting at one another at very close range.
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During his time at the podium, Michael Jordan provided the crowd with a much-needed moment of levity, joking that he would once again become a meme as "Crying Jordan" after tearing up on stage.
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On Wednesday, it became clear quickly that Mr. Cohen's spectacle was something different: plainly important — with sweeping implications for a president accused of breaking the law — but also rollicking enough to demand flashes of levity.
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Levity is sorely lacking in Shoes, a brutal reminder of the desperate lives of the needy as it follows a shopgirl named Eva who supports her unemployed parents and three sisters on her meager wages.
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Trying to keep the levity on set and the playfulness on set so that — it's one of those things where, as a viewer, you really feel like it's all very real, because it kind of is.
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" But, as is the case throughout, her winking sense of humor, like telling Jerome "take your ass home / come back when you're grown" adds levity to an, emotional love song — not unlike Redding himself on "Tramp.
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Disney's new "live-action" version of The Jungle Book is a light and airy concoction, dripping with the menace of Rudyard Kipling's book, while simultaneously allowing for the levity of the animated Disney film from 1967.
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Madonnas line the walls of the lower floor and are hung to loom above viewers as if they were icons in churches; the erotic watercolors occupy the upper section, creating a wholly different mood of levity.
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Despite the paucity of humor, there is just enough levity in the three-part program of films competing for Academy Awards in the live-action, animation and documentary categories to prevent viewers from succumbing to despair.
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It's a sweet moment of levity in the dramatic action-adventure movie ... but it's also a secret Easter egg for longtime fans of Diana, a character whose love of ice cream dates back to the comics.
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The film has moments of comedy and levity; there is a natural intimacy and joy in the sisters' bond, and the courageous personality of the narrator—the youngest child, Lale—instantly invites us into their perspective.
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Family, friends, politicians, musicians, actors and athletes filled the pews of the St. Martin's Episcopal Church to say goodbye to the 41st president with heartfelt praises and gospel music, as well as some moments of levity.
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"Bigly" has emerged as a rare moment of levity in a campaign that has been increasingly acrimonious, and the meme has caught on with both those opposed to Mr. Trump and with some of his supporters.
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A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary Gabriel Bump's "Everywhere You Don't Belong," about a young black man from Chicago's South Side, balances emotional heaviness and levity, Tommy Orange writes in his review.
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This riveting and heartbreaking story, along with Campbell's perspective as an outsider rather than a victim, sheds new light on the horrors of the police state; even amid despair, there are moments of levity and humor.
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In the midst of a global health crisis, people are understandably clinging to any opportunity for levity, even if that has, unfortunately, come at the expense of a man who sadly also happens to be dead.
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The coronavirus can't stop some online sellers from making a buck — in some cases, for charity — and offering levity during a pandemic, with many rolling out lighthearted items aimed at getting a few laughs from customers.
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"The Defenders," which brings together the main characters of four previous Netflix series in a single super team, is trying to inject some levity into a Marvel formula that has become increasingly serious and overly familiar.
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In a moment of levity at the first day of hearings for the Supreme Court nominee, Flake recalled a recent experience when "Gorsuch" was auto-corrected to "Grouch" in a teleprompter for a speech he was giving.
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In a rare moment of levity during her latest appearance on CNN, Kellyanne Conway took a break from explaining why Donald Trump won the presidency over Hillary Clinton to talk about a squirrel that interrupted the interview.
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The adult versions of the siblings -- played by Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley, and Chrissy Metz -- have appeared in every episode so far and often bring levity to the show through their spot-on delivery.
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Blake's nervous vulnerability and cheerlessness are so constant it sometimes starts to feel like a challenge to anyone not entirely willing to get caught up in it — any moments of relief or levity are quickly snuffed out.
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It does detail some of Tiff's clients' kinks, which are generally sanitized for levity – a missed opportunity to de-stigmatize sex work and BDSM on the Netflix platform with an open-ended chance to explore both further.
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Funnily enough, Boseman can very much be seen bringing levity and humor to the serious subject matter of the movie, making it more of a celebration of African heritage rather than the solemn experience described by Power.
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Granting yields some levity, President Donald Trump said in a statement Wednesday that his administration will not be looking to block companies with 25 percent or more of Chinese ownership from buying certain U.S. tech-related companies.
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This fall's menu will pay liquid homage to the corrupt political epoch of Boss Tweed — "a little bit of levity to go with this election cycle we're going through," said Adam Seger, the iPic chain's executive bartender.
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He is just as unfiltered online as he is in person, and as consumers of internet content, searching for some morsel of levity to fill the vacuum of our workday, we live for that kind of drama.
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With salons and spas closed to stop the spread of COVID-19, celebrities have been leaning into their own beauty skills in self quarantine — and providing a much-needed moment of levity for the rest of us.
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In my eyes, the point wasn't to relegate South Asian women to a punch line, but to add levity to a story in which Mr. Nanjiani struggles with a choice that could isolate him from his family.
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" The beloved country artist concluded her message with some signature levity: "I'm just letting everybody know that Willie [Nelson] ain't dead yet and neither am I, and I can't wait to see all of you on the road!
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Edge of Seventeen has that, but with the added specificity of Nadine losing her father, a loss which lends the film ubiquitous darkness and informs some surprising levity (if you like your humor like you like your coffee).
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There are enough moments of levity to still call this episode of black-ish a comedy, but most of what plays out over the 30-minute show is a nuanced discussion about race relations in the United States.
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Moments of levity come courtesy of new additions to the superhero ensemble, namely Paul Rudd's smart-talking Ant-Man and the first appearance of British newcomer Tom Holland's Spider-Man, the latest iteration of the web-slinging hero.
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If the last few days have felt tense and overwhelming, to say the least, allow this to bring a little levity to your day: Instagram just announced a major update to Instagram Stories with three brand-new features.
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There are also well-placed moments of levity that offer laugh-out-loud relief from all the casualties of the long-standing war, like Chewbacca's chance encounter with the film's most adorable and cuddly new creatures, the porgs.
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In an effort to be more supportive, Jacqueline sets up a screener for the women at the spa to view Jessie's talents on a big screen — which ultimately causes Jessie to question the levity behind her YouTube persona.
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He tends to begin the same way, with a moment of levity: Five players were chosen ahead of him in the 2102 draft, he says, but no one in the crowd is likely to have heard of them.
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Following her role on black-ish, Freeform greenlit a spin-off series called grown-ish, which continues Yara's character's storyline with lessons about the complexities of young adulthood and social injustice through the lens of humor and levity.
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Not only is this a good summary of a gross new chapter in this saga, it's also just a moment of much-needed levity watching a professional funny person be reduced to giggles because he said penis accidentally.
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Then Washington ended the standoff with a bit of levity, promising to find a way to send the girl to her father on Staten Island, and asking that once there she offer a toast to the American commanders.
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Works like "Open Field," (2019) feel melancholic, but with just the right amount of levity — a dense atmosphere of pale blues, yellows and grays, on top of which White paints sinewy black lines that contort, knot and, intersect.
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" Why people laughed: "Morse had been lukewarm on the idea of opening the safe with such fanfare and someone from his staff apparently thought to inject some levity into the occasion with the surreptitious placement of his photo.
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Her tone had turned completely serious; gone was the bit of levity she had expressed at the outset when she quipped that if her husband were still alive he might say it was time to move to New Zealand.
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Lead single "Malibu" offered fans a surprisingly understated ode to the California outpost Cyrus and her fiance Liam Hemsworth call home, while the title track pairs dramatic atmospherics and dreamy guitars for a celebration of youthful innocence and levity.
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In one recent study, when Daniel Cordaro presented such sounds of laughter to people in 11 cultures, including people in remote Bhutan, these people knew that it was a sign of mirth and levity about 90% of the time.
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BoJack continues to be able to convey a sense of hopelessness and somber cynicism, but broken up with lots of levity thanks to the animated delivery mechanism, and use of jokes including A LOT of punny wordplay this season.
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Rafiki: Forest Whitaker We'd love to see what kind of spin The Last King of Scotland Oscar-winner would put on the wise baboon's Jamaican-ish accent, and imbue Rafiki's koans with the perfect mix of levity and gravitas.
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So it went at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in Manhattan, a presidential campaign ritual of levity and feigned warmth — upended, like so much else in this election season, by the gale-force bid of Mr. Trump.
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While the inclusion of these objects introduces a touch of levity to the hard-fought stories of Africa's predecessors, they are also reminders of the narrow pathway that an underprivileged child from Africa must walk in order to succeed.
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There was a moment of levity, perhaps unintended, during Mr. Trump's speech: When he declared that his administration had "accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," the audience broke out into murmurs and laughter.
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Since the early 1970s, the Very Special Episode, as it has half-mockingly come to be known, has provided sitcom writers with a ready template for speaking earnestly, and (sometimes) with levity, to families about societal issues, particularly drugs.
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From the voiceovers of your AI assistant Dolores (a nod to Westworld perhaps?) to the witty reactions from injured robots, the carnage is mixed with enough levity to ensure that it's not simply a grim death march through VR hell.
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But Jones works so well as a character thanks largely to the performance of Krysten Ritter, who was previously better known for her comic work (Breaking Bad notwithstanding) and who brought a needed levity to the hardboiled atmosphere of the show.
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"It's been a rough while and some days are worse than others / There's no proper way to feel, no mirth, no levity, no amazing grace," he sings, articulating his desperate attempts to find some stability and a "proper" way to feel.
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The script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely does a highly skilled balancing act, weighing the levity we've come to expect from these characters (there's a great Captain America butt joke) with the gravitas required by the stakes at hand.
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Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz attempted to inject some levity into the campaign slugfest, tweeting that rival Donald Trump had accepted his invitation for a one-on-one debate, before noting it was intended as a joke.
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The festival does, however, offer some levity – there's the Western romp The Magnificent Seven, a remake of the 1960 shoot-'em-up classic, this time starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke as gunslingers protecting a town from vicious raiders.
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"I think one of the reasons that Marja-Lewis Ryan the director thought of the two of us for these roles is because the film needs some levity, so it's not just one heavy scene after the next," he says.
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As a Justice Department special prosecutor began work investigating the nation's current president on Wednesday, former President George W. Bush brought some much-needed levity to the political world with a well-timed photobomb that has already captured the Internet's heart.
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In addition to conveying ... something important about "road safety for the safety of life," hurling a Lada into the Baltic provided a little levity during three days of sessions on things like highway safety policy and the latest developments in guardrails.
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Johnson said that, like previous "Star Wars" films, he wanted to bring levity to "The Last Jedi," from Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) mocking the uptight General Hux to Leia's scathing put-downs and Chewbacca's annoyance with fuzzy new creatures, the Porgs.
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But just when we thought the president had driven all levity, not terrorism, off the face of the Earth, the universe offered us a sign in the form of a sinkhole in front of Trump's lavish Mar-a-Lago estate.
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What both the Obamas and Corden know is that the best levity, the kind that makes millions of people respond with a yelled inner YES, is that which erupts out of great seriousness, collapsing the gap between power and the public.
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That one of every five of those games will feature Wright ups both the stakes and the levity; Boston's stretch run seems a little cheerier even as his starts get weighted with the pressure of a sideshow pushed to center stage.
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Previous versions of the project were installed in poster form, but this version's sturdier materials (nylon banners hung from wood poles) give the work a statelier feel and create a fitting tension between its form's gravitas and its content's jarring levity.
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Aëgerter undertook the project in 2015 to add levity and humor -- through unexpected pairings, like the face of a child next to one of a seal -- to the lives of patients with dementia and Alzheimer's as well as their families.
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"Robin humanizes Batman and also allows for some levity in the heavy-shadowed stories of Gotham, while of course hooking young readers with someone they can also relate to," said Peter J. Tomasi, who writes the current Detective Comics series.
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" In the weeks after Trump's election, the humor and levity sprinkled throughout "The Closer" vanished as the show narrowed its focus to a single mission: to end Trump's presidency and see him "on a boat headed to the Cayman Islands.
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However, these pieces, seemingly easy to report out because of their surface-level levity, often eclipse overarching, unexplored narratives about labor, health care, education, and more, indicated by the lack of public or private support detailed in these stories themselves.
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As seen above, African artist Romuald Hazoumè has crafted exactly that, balancing somberness with wry levity and arresting color by uniquely slivering open the current tumult of the topic of immigration with his new exhibit, All In The Same Boat.
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So to bring a bit of levity to what has become a very divisive day, we want to piggyback on the Clintons' symbolic move and bring you some beauty-focused ways to show support for your country and for a unified nation.
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In fact, between Sam, Edd and Jon's Night's Watch virginity jokes, Daenerys making fun of Jon's height, and Tormund's insane giant story, this episode definitely appeared to be playing up levity, knowing full well that next week will probably find us weeping.
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He had songs that perfectly communicated the laboriousness and desperation of a deep depression; he had songs that perfectly communicated the renewed levity that comes when that depression lifts; he had songs about obsession and sex and being absolutely knackered by everything.
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Seeing these contestants "lose their heads" and forget the cameras see everything, manipulate each other's words, form loyal bonds and even fierier feuds is both an interesting insight into relationships and, more importantly, the levity and lols we need in turbulent times.
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He is said to enjoy a good parade — "I've always been a parade-ophile," he allowed — and recently demonstrated his levity to a reporter by pledging to squeeze himself down a children's slide at a Canton playground after a speech to ironworkers.
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There have been many moments of levity provided by Johnson who has been known to play the fool — the image of Johnson stuck dangling from a zip wire when promoting the London 2012 Olympics is one that is indelible in many Brits' minds.
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It's easy for filmmakers to portray abusers as clear-cut villains; it's much harder to treat them with compassion and to layer a story with the moments of levity and genuine connection that leads a person to stay with someone who hurts them.
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" Shay Mitchell added some levity to the sad goodbyes, posting a collection of the Liars' "surprised looks," from over the years, writing, "After 7 seasons I think we have definitely all perfected the 'oh shit, we're in trouble' deer-in-headlights look #PLLmemories.
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Love it or hate it (honestly, how could you?), Teigen's commentary on all things politics, pop culture, and snacking are an essential part of daily life in the Twitter era, providing some much-needed levity to a hectic and often depressing news cycle.
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Overwhelmed by the bleak and oppressive realities of Nazi presence, residents of the island begin secretly meeting to add some much needed levity and love to their days, creating the "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" book club in the process.
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Beyond political messaging, Brar says he just wanted yesterday's protest to bring some levity to a nation exhausted from parsing through months of political drama, a nation that had in the last few hours started seriously worrying about the specter of nuclear war.
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In what has become a sadly familiar ritual, many of America's late-night TV hosts, who generally respond to the news with levity and one-liners, used their shows Monday night to address the attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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A moment of levity came in the second half as Antonio Gates, among the first to make the basketball-to-football transition that has since become cliche for pass-catching tight ends, set the record for all time tight end touchdown receptions.
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But injecting some levity into what can be a heated and emotional discussion — one where we lay our bank accounts bare — has allowed my husband and me to laugh a bit while tackling one of the most important conversations couples can have.
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The levity with Mr. Putin, however, dominated his first full day in Osaka and came at a time when the Kremlin leader has felt emboldened on the world stage, flexing Russian muscle in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and even South America.
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Cutesier material — a story about how Allison once performed with Willie Nelson at a bar — adds levity to a heavy subject but also plays like pandering, and slow-motion footage of, say, Allison walking the streets of New York just looks like padding.
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There's some levity in this movie; There's humor in it because it's about a real ... it's a realistic description of a person, so her life is in some ways funny, just like in that sex ed clip you talked about is funny.
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Quite what brought that meme, which did the rounds last October, back to life this week remains a mystery, but let's just say that the Internet knew on some deep level that we needed a little bit of levity to ease us into 2016.
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Along with luring industry friends like Will Ferrell, Jenna Fischer and Rainn Wilson to attend the gala, McKay s duties including recruiting comedian pals Sarah Silverman and Dimitri Martin to perform, adding a welcome jolt of amusingly off-color levity to the otherwise sobering proceedings.
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Some people had some, er, thoughts on what the founding fathers would think of all of this And others were just kind of over it While plenty couldn't find much levity in it at all The future of our country is a serious thing.
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And then I saw him in the trailer of "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and I thought, hang on a minute, this guy has always played such brooding and intense characters; I didn't know he had such levity or that he could be so garrulous.
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Trump's golf talk was a brief moment of levity in what was otherwise a sternly delivered speech in which he warned North Korea against any further provocations and called for urgent action to prevent Pyongyang from further developing its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.
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" Norman on Twitter addressed the criticism he received shortly after, saying his comments "were meant to add a bit of levity to a very serious debate between me and my Democrat opponent and to point to the circus-like atmosphere that Washington DC has become.
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The semiannual event, known as Orgo Night (so named because it was originally held right before organic chemistry exams), was meant to signal to the world that Columbia was a place of occasional levity — that the student experience went beyond the toil and grind.
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Gravity Rush 2, which comes out next week and you should play it because it's great, takes itself both incredibly seriously, inspiring stereotypical Japanese anime-style melodrama, and with great levity, explaining why the world doesn't seem to blink at your ability to fly.
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For millennials who don't have childhood memories of step-touching alongside their mothers to old Jane Fonda videos, her appeal stems in part from her enviably toned body, which remains aspirational by today's Pure Barre standards, and in part from her commanding brand of levity.
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This usually happens between the three- and four-pound mark and is caused by an emergency rush of blood to the stomach that is needed to deal with the terrible onslaught of heavy dairy product, leaving the brain somewhat light and in a state of chilly levity.
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Hardy delivers a performance that's shot through with some great physical comedy and sight gags, and the levity goes a long way to lightening what could have been an exercise in morbidity given the darkness of an alien-infected, organ eating anti-hero at the movie's core.
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Mr. Yang's decision to exit the race closes out one of the Democratic primary's most surprising story lines, removing a candidate who developed a fiercely loyal following of disaffected voters from across the ideological spectrum and intrigued even skeptics with his wit, levity and relentless positivity.
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I have precious little sass to go around, and to have to conjure that levity—or to have to defend against it—from strangers, from whom the only support I will gain is a brief few minutes (maybe) of better, more tactical fighting, is too much.
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They accept and even embrace their imperfections, and they add levity with a shrug and a well-placed joke — which sounds a hell of a lot closer to a real family than so many of the boilerplate ones we've come to know so well on TV.
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All of these things point to one thing: whether he's trolling with a purpose or simply for the sake of laughs, Marshmello is clearly just trying to have a good time and inject some levity into a culture that can sometimes take itself a little too seriously.
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Funny Pages Thinking about Williams and his very short apology, "This Is Just to Say" (the lines that launched a thousand memes), led me to Kenneth Koch's affectionate parody "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" for when your stepdaughter needs a bit of delicious levity.
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A sudden emotional shift away, not unlike a jump cut, from the levity Bernstein sets at the start occurs in Act Two, when Bieber, played by immaculately coiffed and buffed Luke Smithers, makes his appearance as an expressionless angel, a figure of exemplary conduct but wholly colorless.
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But this year, Republicans have elevated the practice to high art — supplying extra cushioning for a nominee who does not appear to need it and adding a measure of time-killing levity to a process that virtually all inside the Capitol agree will end with a confirmation.
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Here are a few times when it might be a good idea to use emojis in work emails: During a stressful situation — for example, you and your colleagues are racing to meet a deadline — adding a smiley face to an email can help you inject some much-needed levity.
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"Once Upon a Time" is equally conversant in homosexual action and desire, but has a uniquely hedonistic levity that's perhaps explained by its context: the men's bathroom of what was then the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, a place that needed no grim reminders of gay reality.
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Although there are some instances where responding individually with empathy or levity can help change behavior for the better, that isn't scalable to large volumes of abuse — and it can also reinforce negative behavior, particularly if the person making the threat is looking for attention or a reaction.
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Following the stickers that gave a major boost to last year's bottom line for the London luxury handbag queen Anya Hindmarch has come Valextra's interchangeable resin magnets: multicolored moveable circles and squares and triangles that add a touch of cheerful levity to the brand's classic clutches, totes and backpacks.
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There's no moment of levity in these moments; the politeness I deploy as a party trick is instead a reminder that no matter how I look or sound, no matter how many degrees I have, no matter my marital status, I am always, at that precise moment, an alien.
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The album's style of folk farce foreshadows the self-conscious stylings of crossover stars like Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, and Father John Misty—music that is both winking and shockingly serious, levity paired with searing social commentary and blended into a cocktail that makes the differentiating line indecipherable.
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It was a moment of levity in a collection that was otherwise full of both peekaboo provocation and protective foreboding: sculptural chaps and shoulder armor atop frills and fishnets, crinolines and plastic flowers; insectoid hoods swallowing faces; netting poured over swathes of bubble wrap; chopped-up quilted patent panniers.
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Then, there were some moments of levity, even cordiality, as several Republicans applauded Chairman Jerrold NadlerJerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerTop moments from historic House impeachment debate Democrats question fairness of Senate trial after Graham, McConnell statements Sunday shows - Republicans, Democrats maneuver ahead of House impeachment vote MORE's (D-N.
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Almereyda takes other whimsical liberties (ice cream fights, a smartphone cameo, and a karaoke cover of Tears for Fears, to name a few) but even with these oblique moments of levity, Tesla earnestly depicts an underdog story, illuminating the man's radical passion and pathos without cheapening either. —S.
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Encounters Not long ago, after performing for a packed audience at Carolines on Broadway as part of a stand-up show called "Sisters of Comedy: Night of Levity for Black Lives," Yvonne Orji gathered more than a dozen of her friends who live in New York to celebrate.
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Unlike doctors, some of who use humor and maybe clown props at times but are constricted by a degree of routine and duty, clowns offer a constant source of engaged levity and have the ability to put patients entirely in control of a light and bizarre parallel hospital experience.
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Art institutions have en masse embraced exhibitions like A Crack in Everything — after all, it's headed to Copenhagen and then San Francisco after it wraps up in New York — and there is a wink-and-nudge expectation that critics treat "art-lite" shows such as this one with an appropriate levity.
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The pair suddenly inject some levity into a movie that's gotten very, very dark — Mufasa has just died, and Simba is in despair — and while Seth Rogen's voice turns out to be an eerily good fit for a warthog, it is Billy Eichner who steals the entire show as Timon.
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"The levity seen in oil prices spread throughout the rest of the commodity complex, assisted by some U.S. dollar weakness," said Angus Nicholson, a market analyst at brokerage firm IG. But chances of global producers agreeing to actions to reduce their oil production appeared minimal, especially during September's OPEC meeting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Opponents of hate were granted a rare moment of levity yesterday, when the first draft of far-right British pundit Milo Yiannopoulos's scuttled book for an imprint of Simon & Schuster was made public, complete with his editor's notes and pages-long sections crossed out.
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Whether it's dropping your glasses in a used toilet of stranger's pee (and picking them up) like on "Gross Secret" or finding your roommate's dildo on "Sex Object," Partner's songwriting duo Josée Caron and Lucy Niles add enough levity and '90s alt-rock-inflected power-chords to laugh any embarrassment off.
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The handsome pair of Jacqueline Green and Solomon Dumas (stepping in for an injured Jamar Roberts) slip inside the swinging piano music with fresh, youthful levity, evoking the close bond between Ailey and Carmen de Lavallade, the woman responsible for taking Ailey to a dance class in the first place.
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In a moment of levity at an otherwise somber memorial for Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, O'Neal recounted a moment early in Bryant's career when two of his fellow Lakers came to him to complain about Bryant's selfishness on the court.
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" He has introduced some levity, as when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wished him happy birthday on Monday and the 65-year-old Roberts responded with: "Well, thank you very much for those kind wishes, and thank you to all the senators for not asking for the yeas and nays.
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Most of the levity comes courtesy of Alfie Fuller, who, as Pompey, delivers clown-level antics and surprises by becoming a different character — to avert spoilers, the dual casting isn't even mentioned in the program — with the swift move of a cape (the efficient, unfussy costumes are by Asa Benally).
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And while Kimmel, in tears throughout the emotional, 13-minute clip, made plenty of jokes to bring some levity to the situation ("even that son of a bitch Matt Damon sent flowers"), he also used the experience to make a larger point about the current state of health care in the United States.
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"For me," Scorsese told the New York Times in 1996, "Don Rickles is one of the great comedians": There's something truly artful about his delivery -- many other comedians who practice insult humor are either way too broad or they hide behind a character, but Rickles keeps this balance between levity and relentlessness.
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Natalie: The really nice thing is that there are these moments in reporting that never, ever make it into the newspaper — moments of levity in a tough call, little tangents that would never make it into the lead of a news story, but are just so deeply a part of what we do.
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"You name your Wi-Fi so you don't have to read the overly lengthy digit code and password to visitors, but also to authentically create a moment of levity, to tell your friend something they may not know about you," said Natalie Zfat, 31, a social media entrepreneur in New York City.
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And comedy is supposed to be about making people uncomfortable in the hopes that you get somewhere more interesting and add some levity to this thing called life, and we all get to look at the stuff that we take too seriously or not seriously enough or for granted and laugh at it.
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Life is Strange 2 demonstrates how levity and togetherness in the face of trauma is a necessity for survival But the real power on display in Life is Strange 2 lies in the impossible, everyday decisions one must face in real life as a constantly persecuted person, rather than as a person with special powers.
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Despite the dour nature of the press conference, there was some levity to the proceedings as Sharapova quipped, "I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet."
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He also signed a major farm bill and promoted the ceremony with a moment of levity: He tweeted a video of himself from the Emmys awards show from years ago wearing farm attire - a straw hat, denim overalls and waving a pitch fork - and sang the theme song to the old "Green Acres" TV show.
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With his perpetually calm tone and a steady focus on transparency, he was among the first governors in the country to begin aggressively shutting down activity in his state -- while trying to provide a bit of levity and soul-feeding during his briefings, which have become must-watch moments for Ohioans fearful about the future.
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"You got the memo!" he says with a levity that feels almost impossible coming from someone a month into an album cycle, just two days after Donald Trump was named the president-elect of the United States, and mere hours after news broke that Leonard Cohen had passed away at the age of 82.
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And while Fisher, who died Tuesday at the age of 60, would spend the next few decades very publicly wrestling with her Star Wars celebrity, her work in the sci-fi series gave the films some much-needed levity—did anyone in the Star Wars universe seem so perpetually, justifiably over-this-shit as Princess Leia?
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"Great comedians know how to make us laugh while serving as a reflection of the times, and we are excited to embrace and support the myriad of ways funny people bring us levity and humor today," president of the alternative and reality group for NBC Entertainment, Meredith Ahr, said in a statement, according to the outlet.
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There are some moments in the trailer that hint at a little more levity than previous seasons — including a somewhat innocent moment of a walker trying to catch a plastic bag caught on a tree — but much of the footage focuses on Rick and Maggie rallying their troops with motivational speeches... and Daryl blowing shit up.
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With an energetic style that seems to owe as much to Old Hollywood as to modern graphic novels, Gerstein celebrates the often overlooked god of sheep, shepherds, noise and confusion as an irrepressible character without a shred of self-doubt, who brought a bit of needed levity to a family that took itself very seriously indeed.
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The exchange was the only moment of levity in an otherwise tense and somber hearing at which Mr. Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to breaking tax and campaign finance laws, and made stunning admissions about helping Mr. Trump buy the silence of two women about affairs they said they had with him.
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As Marvel films go, Black Panther is rife with franchise touchstones: thrilling action scenes—the most daring of which begins in an underground South Korean casino and rockets into a car chase through the frenzied streets of Busan—are undercut with moments of human spirit and levity (Letitia Wright's Shuri and Winton Duke's M'Baku offer up well-timed blushes of humor).
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It's not entirely clear that Veronica Mars knows how to handle the high stakes of a bomb investigation without the levity of smaller cases to balance against it — and while the revival may or may not include the small-stakes mysteries in each episode, now that Veronica's out of high school, they won't be quite as petty as they used to be.
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Sure there's harrowing dark ambient tracks like Стaалкер's "Salmon Trawl" or the other punishing moments like the unhappy hardcore of TRENDS' "AXX," but it comes alongside relative levity (like the psych-rap raveup of imagineIAm's "NINJA BLOOD" or the brief selection from the PZA FILES) joyful, or at least comical relief in a strain of music that could otherwise be a horrifying downer.
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That said, many agreed that Christie's had skillfully handled the Leonardo juggernaut, from the videos featured in its marketing campaign to the auction house's worldwide tour for the painting — which generated lines of viewers who wanted a glimpse — to Wednesday night's sure-handed auctioneering by Jussi Pylkkanen, who calibrated his bid-taking with sips of water and moments of levity.
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Businessman Andrew Yang, who offered moments of levity and humor throughout the night, tried to steer the conversation back to the original question, which had been about former President Barack Obama's remark that many of the world's problems could be solved if more women were in power -- and part of the problem is that older, white men don't get out of the way.
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This may not be huge revelatory plot news or whatever, but it's definitely exciting—Skinny Pete and Badger were responsible for some of the best comedy in the series, bouncing lines back and forth like a pair of methed-out Marx Brothers, and they were an important bit of levity in a show that sometimes threatened to get too dark and depressing.
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On Saturday, a Donald Trump-themed food truck rolled out in Portland, Oregon, offering an edible take on the Republican presidential nominee's BS. Specifically, the PDX-based advertising firm Wieden + Kennedy set up shop in Pioneer Courthouse Square to hawk that BS—in this case, baloney sandwiches—to hundreds of locals hungry for a taste of levity during the most cutthroat election in living memory.
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There was No. 14 for Gil Hodges, who played for the Mets in their infancy but more famously managed them when they won the 1969 World Series; No. 37 for Casey Stengel, who added some levity to all the Mets' losses in the early days; No. 41 for Tom Seaver, the best pitcher in Mets history and a Hall of Famer; and No. 42 for Jackie Robinson, whose number is retired throughout baseball.
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" But the filmmaker said all the stars' goofing around helped create a rapport that grounded their characters in reality against the epic, futuristic backdrop and offset the more darkly emotional scenes: "There's a lot of big emotional scenes there, and I think to have that levity, to have that playfulness … You can't be a whole day and go into a day like 'Today I'm going to hate you,' and 'Today I'm going to have a breakdown.
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The women recognized the seismic shift in Hollywood's culture in recent months with the rise of #MeToo, and Ms. Judd spoke of the voices "joining in a mighty chorus that is finally saying Time's Up." They were followed by an emotional video featuring Mira Sorvino, Sarah Silverman, Greta Gerwig, Geena Davis and Kumail Nanjiani, who injected a note of levity by noting that the box-office lucre enjoyed by recent diverse movies should be an incentive for Hollywood.
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The film, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God and The Constant Gardener), masterfully balances its narrative as (fellow Oscar nominees) Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce—Pope Benedict XVI and soon-to-be Pope Francis, respectively—discuss God, tradition, the changing role of faith in people's lives, and the unspeakable issues of child abuse and cover-ups within the Catholic Church in a way that invites thoughtful conversation but isn't afraid to use levity when appropriate.
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The 9 most moving moments at the memorial for Kobe and Gigi BryantPeople took drastic measures to be among Lakers fans for Kobe Bryant's memorial — even though they didn't have ticketsMichael Jordan provided a moment of levity at the memorial service for Kobe and Gigi Bryant: 'Now he's got me — I'll have to look at another crying meme''She was so full of life': Vanessa Bryant laments not being able to watch her daughter grow up at the memorial for Gianna and Kobe
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During a segment on Stephanie Ruhle's morning program, the network posted a full-screen graphic saying the following items are crucial to Trump's success: - Stop Lying - Show Humility - Fill in the Gaps in his policy proposals For Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, who actually has higher untrustworthy numbers than Trump in most polls, MSNBC listed these keys: - Sell Her Presidency (What She Would Do And How She Would Do It) - Be The Clinton That Shines In Smaller Crowds - Get Those Jokes Off, Adding Levity this is real pic.twitter.
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Slightly more than just a weird marketing survey or an arbitrary questionnaire, each answer yielded a different effect on the candy outcome: "The selected income level determined how much visitors paid for the resulting package; the weight and pressure of living determined the weight of the candy and which book was given (selected from three books containing oral pamphlets I wrote, which vary from the levity of humor to writings demanding brain blood sacrifice); and the section of ideological taste determined the kind of candy they received," Haiduk explains to The Creators Project.
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Read more:The 9 most moving moments at the memorial for Kobe and Gigi BryantShaquille O'Neal shared Kobe Bryant's hilarious response to being told 'there's no I in team' after Lakers teammates complained he didn't pass enoughMichael Jordan provided a moment of levity at the memorial service for Kobe and Gigi Bryant: 'Now he's got me — I'll have to look at another crying meme''She was so full of life': Vanessa Bryant laments not being able to watch her daughter grow up at the memorial for Gianna and Kobe
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Read more:The 9 most moving moments at the memorial for Kobe and Gigi BryantShaquille O'Neal shared Kobe Bryant's hilarious response to being told 'there's no I in team' after Lakers teammates complained he didn't pass enoughMichael Jordan provided a moment of levity at the memorial service for Kobe and Gigi Bryant: 'Now he's got me — I'll have to look at another crying meme''She was so full of life': Vanessa Bryant laments not being able to watch her daughter grow up at the memorial for Gianna and Kobe
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Small moments of Lynchian levity — like a cop's broken flashlight, or a nosy neighbor with a tiny dog — don't balance out eerie scenes like the one of Sarah Palmer sitting in the dark, silently staring as two leopards tear out a wildebeest's guts on TV. Tasha: I agree that this doesn't feel like early Twin Peaks, with a chipper Cooper leading local law enforcement through a bottle-smashing experiment to determine which clues in an investigation are important or chattering away to Diane on his tape recorder or offering explosively enthusiastic praise for pie, coffee, syrup, trees, and mountain air.
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Read more:Michael Jordan provided a moment of levity at the memorial service for Kobe and Gigi Bryant: 'Now he's got me — I'll have to look at another crying meme''When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died': Michael Jordan remembers fellow NBA legend Kobe Bryant like a 'little brother''He was my everything': Vanessa Bryant said she and Kobe had 'hoped to grow old together' in a tearful eulogy to her late husband'She was so full of life': Vanessa Bryant laments not being able to watch her daughter grow up at the memorial for Gianna and Kobe
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersWarren to Sanders: 'I think you called me a liar on national TV' Warren-Sanders fight raises alarm on the left On The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans MORE (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe Biden Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview Parnas: Trump threatened to withhold more than just military aid to Ukraine MORE shared a brief moment of levity as Biden cited North Korea's insults directed at him while blasting President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE's North Korea policies.
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