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"lightness" Definitions
  1. the quality of being easy to lift or move; the fact of not weighing very much or of weighing less than usual
  2. the quality of being delicate in appearance rather than large and solid
  3. the quality of being gentle and without weight; the fact of not using much force
  4. the quality of not being great in amount, degree, etc.
  5. the quality of being easy to do; the fact that something does not make you feel tired
  6. the quality of not being severe
  7. the quality of being cheerful or fun rather than serious
  8. the feeling of being cheerful and free from worry
  9. the quality in food of being easy to digest because it is small in quantity or low in fat opposite heaviness (7)
  10. the quality of being pale in colour
  11. the quality of being full of light; the fact of having the natural light of day

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"lightness" Synonyms
weightlessness buoyancy airiness levity zero G volatility floatability tendency to float ability to float sheerness etherealness flimsiness thinness delicacy downiness featheriness fluffiness softness daintiness exquisiteness frangibility fineness fragility smoothness frothiness insubstantiality mellowness mildness brilliance brightness radiance dazzle luminosity effulgence lustre(UK) refulgence illumination lambency luminousness splendour(UK) splendor(US) lustrousness candour(UK) candor(US) brilliancy luster(US) glow light agility grace deftness dexterity nimbleness balance precision subtlety litheness suppleness spryness adroitness liveliness gracefulness lissomness limberness fleetness fluidity light-footedness nimble-footedness frivolity flippancy frivolousness silliness facetiousness flightiness light-mindedness light-headedness triviality superficiality shallowness gaiety giddiness light-heartedness nonsense fun foolishness childishness humour(UK) humor(US) funniness drollery drollness comedy comicality humorousness jocularity wit uproariousness amusement wittiness richness jest comicalness comic whiteness wanness pastiness sallowness pallor milkiness anaemia(UK) anemia(US) paleness colorlessness pallidity fairness sickness lividness pallidness hoariness white colourlessness bloodlessness etiolation freshness openness spaciousness breeziness draughtiness gustiness windiness infirmity affliction ailment confinement debilitation debility decay decrepitude defect deficiency disease disorder failing fault feebleness flu prank trick caper gag antic escapade frolic joke dido waggery roguery knavery lark rag capriccio stunt jape shines tomfoolery movability compactness convenience handiness manageability portability transferability transportability mobility More

714 Sentences With "lightness"

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When lightness is at 0 percent the color is black, and when lightness is at 100 percent the color is white.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MIAMI — In Milan Kundera's 1984 novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, he examines Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of eternal return and its inverse, lightness.
Clouthier has injected wit and lightness into López Obrador's movement.
Her lightness, her love for life, her love for people.
There is such a lightness of touch to those pieces.
Behold an album whose apparent lightness deepens its emotional reach.
"So we can alchemize them into lightness," as she explained.
There was a lightness of step in that first movement.
"There is a lightness in his things," Dr. Krogsgaard said.
This is an irreverent film, but its lightness is meaningful.
He did it with such an incredible lightness, talent, and sophistication.
When called for, he played with subdued delicacy and scurrying lightness.
Yet there's some darkness juxtaposed in the lightness of this episode.
Its thinness and lightness is everything a Galaxy Note 8 isn't.
The pistons are made of titanium, for extra durability and lightness.
The frost gathers outside, but the book proceeds with intentional lightness.
The light was gone, and with it, I suppose, the lightness.
Instead, it's the lightness that I value most in Wright's work.
It's interesting you say that, because the photos have this lightness.
Its length, lightness, waviness and accessories were all up for debate.
Yet there's also a certain smoothness, a certain lightness to it.
The route to achieve that lightness can be work-intensive, though.
There we have it: the unbearable lightness of being Donald Trump.
Passages of teeming intensity are rendered with wondrous clarity and lightness.
Lemaître's whimsical cartoons add some needed lightness to the earnest text.
Ms. Peake's Wilde had a lightness of tone, and drew laughter.
Here are three colors with their hue, saturation, and lightness values.
Porzingis already seems to be carrying it with Nowitzki-ian lightness.
You get through the day by finding the lightness in it.
There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.
We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
She "has an ability to showcase many qualities: expressive lightness, depth, brilliance".
Soon the feelings leave and I feel a lightness come over me.
I know there's a humor or lightness or satire to the genre.
That's because lightness has never really been a concern of luxury buyers.
It is all a speedy, wonderful lightness of being behind the wheel.
He surprised himself by "the lightness" that infused his performance that night.
What follows is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a combination of comedic lightness and drama.
This, she feels, gives the wine base some nuttiness, acidity and lightness.
He held his old-school, leather-grip racket with a familiar lightness.
But in Democratic policy circles there is little lightness this time around.
There was a lightness to her that wasn't apparent during her pregnancy.
The story's lightness is, in a sense, the source of its charm.
"I like the lightness," Shark Barbara Corcoran said while trying the Snacklins.
Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)However, MSI's chase for lightness isn't entirely without drawbacks.
The Chromebook 13's thinness also translates to lightness — it's only 2.86 pounds.
The 360 VR does have some good points, lightness being chief among them.
"Skywalker Freestyle," is an aptly named track due to its cloud like lightness.
And Jason, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, was flightiness and lightness and passion.
The musicians, attuned to Mr. Klein's methods, imbue this music with exquisite lightness.
In that lightness, however, Takeuchi finds a lovely new take on the role.
Overall, the sedan simply has a lightness that could appeal to some buyers.
I tried to bring them a lightness that wasn't allowed in those days.
The severity contrasts strangely with the lightness with which it was sometimes received.
He still projects that lightness of being, wearing his soul on his sleeve.
But still, there's more lightness, literally and figuratively, in the atmosphere these days.
There is a lightness to the perfume, but also a sense of humor.
There's a concept for an impossible, insinuating lightness that can pass between characters.
The ritual held the moment's solemn structure; he was adding some human lightness.
But when Rizwan is on screen, it has a bounce, an engaging lightness.
It's an interesting exercise in branding and the unbearable lightness of our times.
By lightness, do you mean a kind of open, joyful kind of play?
Using forms of debris, elevated into concrete poetry, she wends her way to lightness.
Mr. Robbins tosses around his lines with amiable lightness, like the professional he is.
Today we are here, tomorrow we are gone,  The lightness is the true seriousness.
I feel really relaxed, but also so bursting with happiness and excitement and lightness.
Now you have a three-dimensional colorspace: lightness, and the two color-opponent axes.
But there's increasingly little room for that sort of lightness in the Avengers galaxy.
That lightness and quickness continued throughout the night, but was encumbered by other ideas.
I was starting to feel an easiness and a lightness, and it was beautiful.
The capsule was made from carbon fiber, known both for its lightness and strength.
I want to give to people a moment of lightness in a wild world.
He doesn't have Bosh's lightness or the ballroom-dance footwork, but few players do.
That lightness became a characteristic element of "Scotch Symphony," and of the Balanchine style.
The Swedish folk duo add a lightness and hope to this American Water cut.
Philippe Jordan was unobtrusive in "Meistersinger," while Axel Kober led "Holländer" with drab lightness.
They keep adding to it, deepening the flavor while maintaining its lightness and clarity.
Under Ms. Kim's influence, He-myong said he saw his brother's lightness come back.
In addition to a certain lightness, the fragrances share a point of inspiration: travel.
Some people would gladly trade thinness and lightness for more power, but not me.
A juggler, ventriloquist and court fool, he is above all a figure of lightness.
Pale hardwood floors and multipaned windows accentuate a feeling of lightness throughout the space.
The sale's top lot, Chris Levine's "Lightness of Being (Pink)" (2015), sold for £150,000 (~$197,000).
They turn dark and seemingly impenetrable, but split easily, and are contradictory in their lightness.
And so there is a lightness to this book, even though it's a heavy book.
"There is a lot of lightness and simplicity but the techniques are complicated," Missoni added.
The lightness of these headphones belies their size, and I found them effortless to wear.
This time veins of lavender accentuate the silhouette, adding buoyancy and lightness to the work.
I can heartily commend the Q Adapt on-ear headphones for their comfort and lightness.
So don't worry, Sag—there will be some lightness and joy during this stressful time.
And by the end of the week, you can see this lightness that they have.
A lot of Southerners use 7-UP in their cakes for added lightness—it works!
The carbon racer's lightness should serve the EF rider well in the Tour's high mountains.
Link really brings a lightness to Meredith's life that the super-serious DeLuca hasn't yet.
I love how slick the show looks, but the lightness of it all is unsettling.
Invite yourself to feel the lightness and buoyancy of inhalation and the emptying of exhalation.
With diligent tenderness, the film pursues lightness—how to cultivate it, how to be it.
Even his galloping rhythms had an unpretentious lightness, more like a pony than a Clydesdale.
He suggested Léger, liking the allusion to lightness, for which the French word is légèreté.
"She's here," I thought, and a moment later Rachel walked in with her signature lightness.
She maintains restrained lightness and lyricism throughout, reserving Beethovenian heft only for rare, shocking occasions.
Once again, there's a wonderful tension, between lightness and fleetingness, and the solidity of objects.
The show's lightness and Kimmy's innocence are always a foil for something dark bubbling underneath.
The positivity and lightness felt at RuPaul's DragCon was a welcome distraction from every day life.
"I think lightness adds to relaxation, and my best work comes when I'm relaxed," he says.
Now you can edit that color and only that color, by adjusting Hue, Saturation and Lightness.
Though their experiences might have been dark, there is a unique lightness about each of them.
The show creates confusing feelings of devastation and lightness, genesis and destruction, as death usually does.
But judge Leonard declined to take the comparative lightness of those U.S. jail terms into consideration.
Halvah is approximately half sesame paste and half sugar, but that doesn't convey its luxurious lightness.
"Like this," Valerie said, showing her how to lift the flour as she rubbed, for lightness.
Yet for all its lightness and whimsy, this compendium of movie memories argues insistently for reverence.
Where other directors might have fallen into stuffiness or despair, Ms Schrader's film retains a lightness.
I'm missing a lot of the beauty and the lightness that my sister brings to CocoRosie.
She'll still make mistakes, but her intentions are wonderful, so there's a lightness and a freeness.
"Come on, man," I responded, with a lightness that I hoped hid the nervousness I felt.
A globe-shaped planetarium acts as a Death Star-like foil to all this pleasant lightness.
On the page, there is a lightness to "Socrates" that eludes much of this overcrowded production.
And humor and lightness can come through the darkness, but I like that kind of tension.
It was a pretty show, with some new lightness, though predominantly a loyal continuation of legacy.
The music, like Mr. Williams's theme for the ewoks, reflects the boys' playful behavior and lightness.
I don't think I could have written it if I weren't looking for moments of lightness.
If this was a whimsical attempt at mass-audience accessibility, no whimsy or lightness is conveyed.
Her touch, and the eccentric shapes enlivening her paintings, lend the work a lightness and openness.
Just always loved the lightness of the paper and the grid layouts (and the customizable covers).
The team created a new, precise style of joint that ensured the timepiece's flexibility and lightness.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Taylor Swift's new album is an unexpected gesture of lightness.
But Hop Along strike that balance effortlessly, with a deft combination of precision, lightness, and intensity.
The former, with its welcome moments of lightness and humor, may prove to be Oscar's pick.
Some tried to bring a little lightness in the midst of action about children being shot.
Steel clips and mesh screens hold the sculptures together, lending them an unexpected delicateness and lightness.
At times, there is a feeling of lightness that is counterbalanced by a sense of weight.
"Ombré is a style where the lightness is concentrated at the ends of your hair," she explains.
I think for me it was just a quest to some lightness when I discovered adulthood's obscurity.
This Barbera is voluptuously spicy, carnal, and blood-red, but there's a certain lightness to its density.
Lightness and compactness are important too if you're going to be lugging this around with your phone.
The new Iced Cascara Coconutmilk Latte features the sweetness of cascara, the lightness of coconutmilk, and espresso.
But its lightness on its feet comes to define FOTB; you never linger anywhere for too long.
But what these winter essentials lack in lightness they more than make up for in stylish warmth.
She gave her a shorter cut and plenty of layers to give lightness to Sara's thick hair.
Along with the aforementioned lightness comes a new twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 engine bespoke to Cadillac.
Oldman's vocal range, likewise, is more tenor than bass, yet he makes the lightness work for him.
Gray's lightness is the result of an unburdening that forced her to think differently about her accident.
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera wrote that kitsch inspired a kind of idiotic emotionality.
People of color are constantly subject to stereotypes based on the lightness or darkness of skin tone.
That said, there is a noticeable lightness to my apartment now and extra space in my closet.
Minks that were dyed in pink — we treat those kinds of things with a sense of lightness.
"Now if hair does have lightness on the ends, it shouldn't be overly dramatic," Ms. Bodt said.
Whether or not darkness was to be relieved by light, it was to be relieved by lightness.
These three expert musicians all boast a lightness of touch and a keen sense of suspenseful development.
It's popcorn, minus the explosion into fluff — a worthwhile trade-off, sacrificing lightness for meatiness and crunch.
His choice of chicken over the more traditional veal or pork also nudges the dish toward lightness.
She shared my mother's lightness about fate—an equanimity that borders nobility but comes with no pride.
Before Mr. Trump arrived, you could sense lightness and even a whiff of relief on the floor.
But this Bayreuth performance of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" from 1943 has both lightness and grandeur.
It's got a timeless, happy vibe — the kind of lightness winter could use a lot more of.
But my father, now near the end of things, was possessed by a strange lightness of spirit.
Maybe it was this illusion of lightness that made a pie for two seem right for one.
Perhaps Sandy had gotten tired of hearing his eloquent lightness and clarity in the upper range praised.
Not the dank hole that can be sort of a cesspool, but it's got the lightness. Yeah.
The Hate U Give is a sobering story, but it's shot through with romance and lightness too.
"But the coolest thing is that underneath that lightness, it's a new form of traditional folk divination."
This lightness of touch also helps make it clear that the show isn't taking itself too seriously.
I think that we need beauty, it's part of the lightness and poetry of being a human being.
It seems like the album also switches a lot between the major and minor, and heaviness and lightness.
While Calle's actions are ripe with playful humor, this lightness should not be misunderstood as lack of sincerity.
She loves to change it around- a slight change in tone or lightness can make a big difference.
De Boer-Buquicchio pointed out the lightness of penalties in Japan related to the sexual exploitation of children.
But the program on Tuesday evening seemed designed to show the ensemble's versatility, even a lightness at times.
But it is a touching listen, full of lightness and comfort, like boarding a spaceship filled with pillows.
I wanted humor and lightness, even if that meant being oblivious and not always literal or all knowing.
His 2018 collection of the violin sonatas and partitas was revelatory in its unpretentious lightness and dancing energy.
Like lightness of body, bitterness is another feature that is often assumed to be a deficiency in wine.
The Grado GW100s are well made, but the materials, the lightness, and the sparseness makes them appear cheap.
A number of designers are putting cheese-hole-style perforations into furnishings to create visual and actual lightness.
So we wanted to make a pop album that had a lightness but that was still saying something.
Fendi's spring 2020 collection is meant to evoke the lightness of warmer months, both in attitude and clothing.
Its power owes nothing to weapons, funding and networks, and everything to its lightness, its agility, its undetectability.
"Work on the lightness," he said, as she practiced a pirouette at the far end of the barn.
The paintings have a lightness in tone and surface quality, but they are forceful in their suggestion of movement.
The lightness and ease of a lesbian romance that does not upend any trauma is a refreshing, upbeat relief.
And there should still be a lightness … You want to feel comfortable and you want to feel like yourself.
The form eventually reveals itself through gradations in a color's lightness or darkness, to which she acts or reacts.
There's a lightness that comes from getting rid of old clothes, but in the winter, that takes some convincing.
With her eyes fixed on the floor, she watched Pat's feet, narrow and long, walk away with surprising lightness.
Here, lightness is found not through eternal return's inverse but through its pliancy — that history is subject to reinterpretation.
" In the response, Motta remarks the ad "plays on the irony, lightness and absurdity of the characters and situations.
Like its flagship phones, the MateBook X has a unibody aluminum design and is built for thinness and lightness.
Before we discuss how that power is translated into forward momentum, let's briefly talk about the questionably relevant lightness.
What entertained me wasn't fealty to its source but the pleasure its makers took in creating and sustaining lightness.
Mama Walker serves Grade A shade and it's a moment of lightness in an episode that didn't have many.
This mischievous, winking sensibility lends lightness and bounce to a story that's not without menace and even some pathos.
Did she recognize the gracefulness of her flight, the confident leaping through the brush, the lightness of her touch?
Mom Cametrione Malone-Brown said her daughter's birth brought lightness to a day shadowed by the 29 terror attacks.
The result is an object that represents seemingly contradictory qualities: heaviness and rigidity, as well as lightness and flexibility.
But we wanted to also keep the frivolity and the lightness in the show, too, so it's very dynamic.
Both Haram and Moor Mother pushed back at my suggestions that there's a lightness baked into these five tracks.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
It's easy to experience an "unbearable lightness of being," in Milan Kundera's phrase, when the anchor of truth disappears.
As with "15 Horsepower Citroën," Mitchell's early work suggests the artist thrived on the lightness of poetic machine music.
Out of several strong songs here, this one has sinuous charm and a chipper 1980s back-and-forth lightness.
But under Mr. Yu's baton, they summoned surprising extremes, leavened occasionally with the brisk lightness of a Tchaikovsky ballet.
She became a friend and leader to the other women, finding lightness and solidarity in the cruelest of places.
It is in their insistence on lightness that these pieces reaffirm their allegiance to painting rather than to sculpture.
"I felt her lightness lessened my Blackness," she continues, as if racial identity were contained in a skin tone.
Mr. Trifonov dispatches the music's breathless runs with crispness, clarity and wondrous lightness, even during a sotto voce passage.
Even their clothing, which appeared to be inspired by 1990s American hip-hop fashion, had a lightness to it.
In the scherzo, the performance shifted deftly, from stretches of somber, driving intensity to passages of lightness and grace.
Good Riojas are refreshing, a quality that has more to do with balance and energy than it does lightness.
It feels the lightness of not having to pay attention to events and people that no longer interest it.
The tensions between lightness and seriousness, between the predictable and the unforeseen, weave themselves together constantly in Knott's poems.
Above all, Barreto wants to show the breadth of Korean cuisine, its lightness as well as its rich palette.
Either way, it was a flash of bipartisan lightness to end things, a tiny surprise, if not a breakthrough.
If it's lightness you seek, make turkey pho, a play on pho gà, the classic Vietnamese chicken noodle soup.
In this strange lightness of spirit that possessed him, my father turned to the writing of comic short stories.
"The EP is an ode to the sun," Louis says when I ask him about the lightness of the music.
The interplay between earth and sky, human and non-human, heaviness and lightness, is even more pronounced in other works.
According to Maciunas, the father of Fluxus, both life and art should always have a light smile in it. Lightness.
Yet in the year before he vanished, after the deaths of his parents, Epstein evinced a sudden "longing for lightness".
I picked up various such parts from the Renault F1 car and was repeatedly surprised by their paper-like lightness.
Lightness states that, in fact, eternal return is impossible, that existence is unburdened, and that everything is fleeting and insignificant.
For me, the lightness and clunky fragility of the works recalled the experience of seeing an impeccably smooth marble figure.
The primary virtues of the new MacBook—its thinness and lightness—are evolutionary traits inherited from the very first Air.
Her paintings, imbued with lightness and luxury before the revolution, took on a subtly sober tone in the years afterwards.
The language of some of our most beloved food writers has gone from flavor and feasting to cleanness and lightness.
"[This] image has been retouched to accentuate this effect of lightness and transpose me into a dream character," she said.
What's so charming about these emotional gems is their essential lightness: Maybe unlike a marriage proposal, the story ends here.
But it manages to do that without stinting on the humor and lightness that are also crucial to the piece.
In the French version, it went with a formal variation but ensured phrases have "a lightness to it," said Hymes.
While Scuf listed the lightness of the Prestige as a bonus, I quite like the heft of the Series 2.
So I felt like the character needed a moment of lightness in there, an idyllic image amongst all the darkness.
Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
These works undermine the distinction between painting and drawing, having the lightness of touch and deceptive simplicity of his drawing.
With "Sweetener," she has reaffirmed that the lightness of her voice is best suited for bliss and satisfaction, not mourning.
Its most outré pieces are the ones designed with the most detail and care, lest you mistake lightness for slightness.
Designed by Johnston Marklee and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the 30,000-square-foot structure has a certain lightness about it.
The latter captures the sensation of rain vaporizing on your skin with subtle traces of "moisture and lightness," says Alkalay.
The whole thing is clever and a little silly, with a lightness and energy that testifies to the filmmaker's inventiveness.
As the show's subtitle suggests, evoking lightness and levitation was clearly a goal; some paintings here seem ready for takeoff.
I walked back to my meditation cushion, took a deep breath, and felt a wave of lightness come over me.
Still, the overall lightness of the food has some bearing on the one real debate you could have about Atla.
The clown plays the role of the ironic entertainer whose duality reflects the intrinsic darkness and lightness of humanity itself.
Johnson's first visit to LucasLand darts and zigzags with an unusual lightness of touch for an effects-heavy franchise title.
Although so far everything I have released has a lightness to it, Arcane overall is just rooted from that notion.
And for the few who do value peak thinness and lightness, it's nice to know something like the Swift 7 exists.
The houses in the middle distance have a lightness to their geometry and color, as if architecture, too, knows the seasons.
I sense something dark flowing beneath the surface of these self-mocking poems, filled with moments of lightness and tender humor.
That's why I love it, because it has the drama but it also has the lightness and the comedy as well.
However, because of the lightness of my skin and my ability to "pass," I do not feel comfortable using the term.
Ahead, you'll learn about some of the most important factors to achieving a perfect highlight: size, placement, amount, and lightness level.
Part of the comfort factor is the Magic Leap One's relative lightness, since the bulkiest electronics are offloaded into the Lightpack.
That "quest" for lightness still guides the much more high-tech innovations that mark Nike and Jordan Brand to this day.
There was her husband, Peter, who if you want to go all "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," he was the weight.
Hallmarks of the restaurant's cooking are lightness and balance, terms not always associated with arepas, empanadas, tostones, and sauces featuring Gorgonzola.
Good beach reads—no scare quotes—have both the lightness and the easiness of gossip, and some of gossip's natural cruelty.
Many industry experts credit her Parisian diamond jewelry brand with infusing a much-needed lightness into the convention-laden diamond stone.
Yet even at its most convincing, Mr. Franco's performance retains an interior lightness, a playfulness, including when Tommy goes emotionally dark.
"I'm happy that it's bringing a lightness to their day, but at the same time I'm taking this seriously," she said.
"Wall-mounted shelves give the impression of lightness and floating in space," said the New York-based interior designer Amy Lau.
The work on view in the upper gallery embodies tensions between the lightness of commodity and the violence of our time.
Take a moment to watch a live performance of the title track below, it will bring some lightness to your day.
Shot over two years and in eight countries, the movie has a quirky lightness that prevents it from slipping into lecture.
But the lightness of the sentence called for by Mr. Prêtre suggested that the concepts invoked by Mr. Oloumi had resonance.
Mark has the seriousness of intent and lightness of communicative ability that puts him very much in the world of Beckett.
Mark has the seriousness of intent and lightness of communicative ability that puts him very much in the world of Beckett.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Milan Kundera The philosophical concept introduced in the title speaks volumes and poses so many questions.
Through the window, the late-April sun was milky over the bay, which shone with a steely lightness, no whitecaps today.
For the improbable lightness of those golden coats, with just enough salt and crunch before they give way to delicate flesh.
In fact, disassembling and dispersal are fundamental strategies for Vo's practice, and he employs them with an assured lightness of touch.
Daniel Heyman's layered paintings, prints, and portraits possess an almost decorative lightness that often belies a more crucial and devastating truth.
Mr Ellams juggles plenty of weighty topics but he brings a lightness of touch, peppering the play with humour, music and dance.
Having had a pair for about a month now, I just really enjoy the flexibility of their split headband and their lightness.
She feels a fleeting lightness inside her as it disappears into the scrub at the edges of the carpark across the street.
But hey, that's what happens when you focus on getting all the core laptop features right instead of chasing thinness and lightness.
The big attraction of the Air has been its portability and lightness, paired with the relatively inexpensive prior price tag of $999.
The idea is for the space to be much more open, with the lightness and colors reflecting more of the LA vibe.
What's really special to me about Little Miss Sunshine is how darkness and lightness coexist in such a beautiful and authentic way.
ARM's designs, which have, from the outset, been about lightness and efficiency, are working to build up its credentials for heavier workloads.
But it's also still aluminum, so the all-metal body (minus the glass panel at the top) feels premium despite its lightness.
Because of the material's lightness, the cork walls and roof, made of several distinct corbelled pyramid-like shapes, were assembled by hand.
We've long passed the point of diminishing returns with thinness and lightness of personal tech devices, but we can't resist pushing further.
I only had a few minutes to try it, but it was enough for me to appreciate its sleek design and lightness.
I find these headphones supremely comfortable, with their physical lightness and fit being a fine match to their polite, friendly sound signature.
I'm especially fond of the lightness of these cans, which makes them so much more practical and usable on a daily basis.
They preferred a voice with flexibility and lightness, so that sound pressure and volume were not the main means to express drama.
The Munchs may get a bit ponderous, but the beauty and lightness of "The Seasons" dispel any whiffs of fatalism or portentousness.
That lightness extends through "Ant-Man and the Wasp," affecting not just what the characters say and do but how they interact.
A central concern of Rosengaard's is how lightness turns heavy through loss, but the examples we see up close leave us wondering.
Their food reflected a nouvelle lightness thanks to reduced amounts of fats and flour, and it was served in artfully restrained presentations.
He started with Ukrainian folklore, and a sinister, fairy-tale lightness persists in his later, more renowned stories about the imperial capital.
The smooth, almost lyrical movement of the camera conveys lightness and gravity, much in the way that some of Dickinson's poems do.
Lightness: The Full Spectrum Closing reception for the Colony exhibition (on view beginning May 18) to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union.
Despite the heavy themes, there's a lightness to the beginning of "Snowfall," a sense that this is the calm before the blizzard.
Since I wanted instead the movement and lightness of the spoken word, one step toward that was to do away with punctuation.
Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's "Every Brilliant Thing," on the other hand, has that delicate balance between pathos and lightness down pat.
While this story didn't carry a lot of weight, it was a relief to see William with so much energy, lightness and jokes.
It's a very unique feeling, the physical feeling of lightness and freedom and inhabiting space in three dimensions that is very very special.
Asherie, a choreographer and B-girl, is infectiously charismatic: Her nickname, "Bounce," aptly describes both her physical buoyancy and her lightness of spirit.
Notably, a painting that spells out "YOLO," a piece from Flood's recent "LOL" series, adds a tongue-in-cheek lightness to the show.
Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism.
"If you have naturally dark hair, you have to keep some of that darkness, so that the lightness doesn't look unnatural," she explains.
This tearing-upward of steel forms underscored its weight and resistance, added a note of unexpected lightness and declared that nothing is permanent.
A long, cold spring had broken into summer and I had a lightness in my step and wasn't paying attention to my surroundings.
I think we had to do this in order to bring lightness back to music, both for ourselves making it and the listeners.
Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops were the first thing to excite me here at CES, exhibiting a lightness and minimalism that feels strangely irresistible.
Since he started making songs in his late teens, there's been an unmistakeable lightness to Robinson's productions, albeit with an undercurrent of pathos.
She winks subtly through #tbts at her heavy past, acknowledging that without it she would not be able to embrace her present lightness.
In time he became dissatisfied with the heaviness of traditional canvas supports, which seemed at cross purposes with the lightness of his color.
"Charmani shows the lightness of the body, seductively revealing itself, and finding a new balance between discipline and freedom," read a designer's note.
" Later she adds: "Florist signs are everywhere / Emily is in the air / On tour / With Gabby / We'll embody all the grace and lightness.
It took a small crew; it drew our handful of friends and family members into a close, intimate circle of care and lightness.
Such difficulties notwithstanding, Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
The first movement has his characteristic quality of grave propulsion, until some writing for the low brasses exhibits an unexpected lightness of step.
It's a necessary ritual for me to feel at ease, but the lightness we sometimes inject into it makes it feel less clinical.
Mr. Kaufmann's voice has evolved in typical ways: youthful lightness, suitable for Mozart, giving way to depth more fitting for Verdi and Wagner.
She experimented with singing "Dich, teure Halle" from Wagner's "Tannhäuser," even though her voice's lightness at the time was better suited to Mozart.
" His answer, in this spot, is clear: "Maybe we should make an environment where everyone can enjoy the lightness, and you can play.
As with the best Bordeaux wines, those of Le Puy are marked by purity, precision, lightness and drinkability that encourages taking another sip.
You walk through the world with a sense of lightness, peace, and freedom that makes its way into everything else that you do.
As this photograph illustrates, she knew how to capture opposite impulses at the same time — forward/backward, up/down, weight/lightness, push/pull.
It is perhaps just that duality — lightness and play hinting at emptiness and discontent — that makes papier-mâché so unsettling and so riveting.
One of the ways to convey color in a digital image is by breaking it into its three properties: hue, saturation, and lightness.
I'm pretty pessimistic there, because my favorite records that I've made, the one right before Pitiless, I think they're infused with a lightness.
The guitars crunch and yowl, the drums are tough and blustery, with strategically placed strings and acoustic chords to add an airborne lightness.
We are ego-driven animals but in all the letters Buffett talks about successes as well as failure with the same depth and lightness.
Previously popular for its distinctive fluffy look, lightness, and warmth, mohair is now falling out of favor with some of the world's largest retailers.
Shuri brings so much of the humor, lightness, and charm of the film, without ever turning into a weightless, one-note comic relief character.
He gains an impossible lightness and, just like that, begins to float upwards towards the studio's open skylight, and towards the opalescent heavens above.
But here's what we know about them: they're best enjoyed when the weather is warm, and they evoke a sense of carefreeness and lightness.
Part of the lightness of Hawn's feed comes with her apparent acceptance of the fact that she no longer possesses the aspirational Hollywood body.
"It's always nice to be able to add a little flair, some lightness, even if it is at his expense," Morgan tells The Verge.
But watching him play, there was a new lightness to his game, and not just because he's nine pounds under his old playing weight.
The pod's lightness is in part due to the undercarriage, which integrated a levitation system, stabilization system, and safety system into just one part.
The sun enters Leo on July 22, lighting up the sector of your chart that rules fun and flirtation, bringing lightness to your life.
Yet he approaches the grimness and desperation of his characters' lives with lightness and humor, in an idiomatic Greek seamlessly translated by Karen Emmerich.
"The whole enterprise has an agreeable lightness, no small thing, given its rapidly moving parts," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The Times.
Belanger, who is fine-boned with bright blue eyes and a quality of ethereal, radiant lightness, maneuvers deftly around the space, gingerly moving objects.
"His writing — about sudden death, family relationships, marriage, spirituality and healing — is a revelation of lightness and agility," Alex Witchel writes in her review.
Delivered with wit and lightness by Vedantam, "Hidden Brain" is digestible without ever being dumbed down, and embodies an open-mindedness that becomes infectious.
What will stay with me the most from the days I spent with these two children are the small but exquisite moments of lightness.
White flour is needed not only for taste but also for lightness: Its gluten content allows the batter to stretch, rise and bake up high.
The new shoulder-length style reinvigorated her look with a sense of lightness and let her play up the naturally wavy texture of her hair.
That's another appeal of Couture Week: designers have the lightness of just designing for themselves relative to the pressures of their ready-to-wear collections.
So first thing I tried to give back to the people I had photographed in the streets some sort of decency, of dignity, of lightness.
Tom Holland's Peter Parker was easily the best thing about 2016's Captain America: Civil War — he gave the movie much-needed lightness and joyfulness.
He called his invention a defensive weapon, but its lightness and reliability made it the gun of choice for rebels, terrorists and, especially, child soldiers.
" Trilling, once an epoch-defining mind, is now "so reduced as to have become a joke to certain young critics who favor flippancy and lightness.
As Sebald delivered his syntactically complex sentences, grace and lightness and, oddest of all, humor were present, as clear as a slap in the face.
It's almost a cliché to say that a ballerina's arms suggest wings — the technique of ballet itself lends itself to metaphors of lightness and flight.
The wine grape variety in this bottle is indigenous to the Greek island Santorini, and Isle says it has the lightness of a Pinot Grigio.
The digitalized heirs to that legacy have not lost their fondness for stories whose lightness of being seems only to enhance their ability to titillate.
In the second movement, she rendered one ostensibly sunny theme with such spidery lightness that the consolation it offered came across as a mere mirage.
People love that lightness and to kind of get a first-person account and have someone tell you about their most embarrassing night or something.
As I complete the tasks one by one, I get a joyful feeling of lightness, as though I have completely finished tidying up my home.
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.
The Clevelanders were their equal and more, somehow achieving that perfect balance between lightness and heft, a sound neither too feathery nor too laden down.
The white walls gave the room some lightness and I liked that they painted the concrete ceiling a dark gray rather than keeping it raw.
A creation about them might easily have turned into a series of reverential obituaries, but Mr. Honoré gives "Les Idoles" a welcome lightness of touch.
I was elated at the lightness of my body after the placenta was removed, and grinning as they handed me my chalky-white, vernix-covered miracle.
"I also think these stocks are range bound by the amount of supply and the lightness of demand" for crude, Forrest wrote to CNBC on Tuesday.
As with the shape, lightness, and handling of this mouse, its tracking of my movements is so natural and accurate that I never think about it.
The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz's Jippies Asquerosos ("dirty hippies") project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.
That might seem unrelentingly gloomy and, to an extent it is, but there is a lightness of touch to the events of Where The Goats Are.
If there's a mythology here, I missed it, much as I also missed the charm and periodic lightness of Tolkien's world, with its hobbits and Shire.
His book is thoroughly researched, largely based on Hobsbawm's own copious papers, but diligence is not matched by a sense of proportion or lightness of touch.
"Lightness" by Peter and the Wolf is a song about the road, made on the road by one of the most well traveled musicians I know.
Deconstructing the motif, she said, she played with its components before reassembling them in articulated sections to give the pieces a sense of lightness and movement.
In contrast, on Wednesday Mr. Trifonov played Prokofiev's short Sarcasm No. 3 as an encore, a performance with plenty of bite, but also lightness and sparkle.
And Mr. Welser-Möst brought the same conception to both: lightness, transparency, poise, an emphasis on textural variety, the quality of aeration that is his trademark.
So the Adagio from Bach's Sonata No. 1 that opened Friday's program had both remarkable clarity and feeling, with the lightness of a dance among clouds.
She was never instructive, nor was she relentlessly dark — there was always lightness, both in her touch and in her insistence on an essential human goodness.
Unfortunately, the extreme lightness of the base means that you can't open the computer with one hand — it's a two-hand operation to separate the two halves.
WaveOptics – WaveOptics has developed augmented reality technology that fuses incredible image quality with lightness and manufacturing scalability, creating immersive augmented reality that is viable and accessible. Action.
There's a reason all the girls in L.A. go for highlights — single-process color is striking, but those ribbons of lightness do so much for your complexion.
The phenomenological shift is acute and lasting: like Ad Reinhardt's black paintings, once boundaries and tonal shifts emerge, one cannot unsee the paper or unfeel the lightness.
Every person that has seen it or held the new MacBook since I've been carrying it with me has remarked on its thinness, lightness, and overall build.
For a long while, it even overshadowed Apple's own MacBook Pro, with media professionals in particular embracing the effortless lightness and longer battery life of the Air.
Quickly, I found that not only had Cadillac achieved both lightness and bossiness but also quite possibly redefined the way a full-size luxury sedan can behave.
Through art, music, dance, romance, or however you like to "escape," you can transform the energy around you from doom and gloom to lightness and fresh starts.
"The way he describes this lightness and this feminine nature, it does suggest that it's a little thoughtless," she said at a lunch with the news media.
Camilla Hoitenga played the bass flute with unnatural lightness one moment, caramel liquid weight the next; Davóne Tines's baritone floated through the text like a dense fog.
After all, when you're attaching a camera to a gimbal or the end of a GorillaPod, every extra bit of lightness make a camera easier to handle.
I wonder whether the tennis tables are an expression of that same aggressive freedom I see in my friends—an insistence on lightness, a full-throated yearning.
Those portraits are the subject of "Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture," an absorbing survey at the Frick Collection that also demonstrates his unending lightness of being.
Of his painting technique, he added, "it has a lightness of touch" that serves to "allude" to the difficult subject matter rather than treat it too graphically.
"It shows lightness, the moment of interaction between the animal and flower as she's not flying; she's staying and it is a moment of calm," he said.
The Unbearable Lightness of Money Diaries Money diaries give you a peek into someone else's spending — but may leave you with a bad taste in your mouth.
It's made with the chenin blanc grape, which often has a satisfyingly weighty texture as well as a lightness that comes from the grape's naturally high acidity.
References to gang culture and Catholic iconography among this set also transformed tattooing, adding gravity and sorrow to an art form previously defined by lightness and comedy.
He cares about line; his spins have an endearing lightness, as the arch of his back in his layback — arguably the most beautiful spin in skating — attests.
It costs a one-off payment of $80 and has a lot of comparable features, even if it lacks the lightness and ease-of-use of Parallels.
As usual, Ms. Lucas makes every texture, color and shape count; the ensemble put me in mind of the lightness and delicacy of a painting by Watteau.
The interview prompted dozens more women to come forward and triggered intense criticism of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance for the perceived lightness of Hadden's plea deal.
They teased out the lustrous gleam of her rolling arpeggios, the enchanting lightness of pizzicato tossed from player to player, the blazing lyricism accompanied by passionate vibrato.
They understood something profound about each other but also barely knew each other, which allowed for a lightness between them, pure fun in the face of everything.
Suspended from the gallery ceiling, Bucher's "Herrenzimmer" (1977-8), a latex cast of the inside surface of her father's study, floats with the translucent lightness of skin.
His voice is neither large nor particularly rich (nor was Coward's), but his phrasing has the lightness and drollery, and the occasional bite, that's ideal for Coward.
They have the same bright, lemony fresh flavor as the regular lemon variety, but the thinner cookie adds to the lightness of it in a great way.
For Mr. Conrad, the album brought attention to the sweet tone and admirable lightness of his singing, and to his agile way of dispatching runs and embellishments.
Maybe you really do just want the lightness of celebration, the benefit of salves and powders and whatever a jar of ashwagandha purports to do for you.
And while he had never used the lightness of his skin to pass as white, the clerk who took his voter registration paperwork never asked the question.
The lightness they feel after lingers longer by that point too, which is pleasant enough for them to want to continue making health-promoting decisions, he finds.
Known for her nuance and control, Ms. Hewitt plays with a lightness that will draw even casual listeners to seats where they can carefully watch her fingertips.
Khouri is also known for being mindful of obstruction and fuss — and in fact, her new collection, titled "Ethereal," is an exercise in lightness and luxurious restraint.
My recollection was he was looking for somebody … who puts people at ease, have lightness so that they wouldn't suspect that he's going to be who he is.
Beverly Pepper, an acclaimed American sculptor whose work was suffused with a quicksilver lightness that belied its gargantuan scale, died on Wednesday at her home in Todi, Italy.
Audio-Technica uses some fancy composite materials to provide strength and stability in spite of the lightness, and I found no creaks or weak points in the R2349x.
You could use hue and saturation for the color plane, for example, and then value—lightness or dark—for the z-axis and get a whole other universe.
"I really liked this idea of contrasting this extreme femininity and lightness of the '30s with something more brutal and masculine," the designer told WWD of the collection.
The front side of the menu, posted at each table on a small chipped clipboard, is hers, devoted to brunch dishes (served all day) of almost Californian lightness.
"Spring menus need to suggest the brightness and lightness that's coming in summer," said Samantha Kincaid, the pastry chef at High Street on Hudson in the West Village.
Even if the five of us lived in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment near the Jersey shore, we still managed to have many days of lightness and laughter.
This album was written around the time when Andrew Innes had just had a kid, and my girlfriend was pregnant, so there is definitely a lightness to it.
With their lightness and comfortable silicone tips, finding a good fit is no problem at all (I never needed to switch away from the pre-installed medium tips).
Those include harmony between horse and rider, the rider's position and seat, the freedom and regularity of the paces, and the lightness and ease of the horse's movements.
Throughout these works, created from 1900 to 1924, Ms. Mearns showed the edifying way she uses the rise and fall of weight to create the illusion of lightness.
Trading verses with Ms. Shah, then eventually trading off line-by-line, Ms. Jordan brings a welcome new lightness to the session, in both timbre and affect. G.R.
Mr. Goerne produced a consistently rounded tone, more big than intimate but well-suited to the acoustics of Carnegie Hall and capable of lightness as well as power.
At the same time, Ledgerwood does something that few abstract painters dare to do: she introduces silly and vulgar possibilities into her work with a rare, debonair lightness.
This gives the art scene in this neighborhood and the ones developing around it — in NoHo, East Village South, Chinatown or Little Italy — a certain lightness of being.
But earlier this year Mr. Filiú put out his own standout album, "Quarteria," a collection of original music with a playful elasticity and an enchanting lightness of motion.
Ugliness has the louder voice in these works, flanked by tragedy on one side and on the other by the engaging intentional lightness of Mr. Oehlen's pictorial sensibility.
"I started thinking of puns as a rubric — what would lightness in a Dan Flavin sculpture feel like as an olfactory experience?" says Choi of developing her dishes.
The song itself transforms the track into a kind of heaviness, employing great use of noise and bass contrasted with moments of lightness and other injections of instrumentation.
Even though the emotional charge of "Male" is expected for viewers familiar with Solano's biography, the video manages to sustain an unexpected lightness that carries through the show.
Brie Larson wore Gucci, the label revivified by Alessandro Michele: a billowy, bold, blue ruffled frock whose lightness was bisected and somewhat weighed down by a large jeweled belt.
Part of what made Pop both the entry point and canon classic was its lightness of being, like morning breaking after the long dark night of Voigt's earlier releases.
Wonder Woman has a lightness and wryness that none of its DC predecessors could claim, but it's still about philosophical crisis and a hero trying to find an identity.
The lunar sky and alien form's sci-fi familiarity at first lent the piece a natural lightness, infused with the optimism of space travel's portrayals in mainstream popular culture.
What mattered is David's first two singles made me feel like someday, the lightness and ease with which he spoke about being in love was possible for me too.
Ms. Meza brings an appealing combination of lightness and depth to all the material, singing in a bright, clear voice against the agile stir of a first-rate band.
Though batteries add weight, some of this is compensated for by the simplicity (and therefore lightness) of electric motors and by the removal of unnecessary parts such as gearboxes.
I'd listen to her play the grand piano — the passion that had taken her to Juilliard decades earlier — and marvel at the lightness of her hands on the keys.
In fact, the leather was shaved to considerable lightness and leavened further by the sprightly game of peekaboo Ms. Castiglioni seemed to be playing with all the other clothes.
He grounds the movie in science but he also helps give it a conversational lightness, as he stands and delivers on, say, molten rock and Mr. Herzog ponders creation.
Measuring 9.95mm (0.39 inches) and weighing 1.96 pounds, the new Swift 7 surpasses other seemingly sleek systems like the HP Spectre and LG Gram in both thinness and lightness.
With regard to the sound: I think there is a lightness in some of the tracks but then it can also be contrasted by more intense sounds and transitions.
"We try to have enough lightness in there so we're not just hitting them over the head," explains Amy Ewbank of Doll's Eye Theatre, the director of the play.
Galaxies from the doe-eyed ingenue who flounced through The Unbearable Lightness of Being in 1986, this Binoche is no less feminine, or sexual, for her five-plus decades.
The report cites the development of the 12-inch MacBook and how there were initially two versions, one that emphasized thinness and lightness and another prototype that was heavier.
"Summertime" sounds like the first week of summer in New York City when all of a sudden the lightness of spring disappears and life gets unreasonably sexy and sweaty.
I listened to my aunt talk about how being a loving, responsible parent often meant breaking her own heart, by hiding away her laughter and lightness from her child.
But, focusing almost exclusively on a single short text, it doesn't quite capture his special balance of lightness and gravity, the evanescent way he makes significance and insignificance flicker.
For Dennis Muli, an architect with Gem Archplans in Nairobi, the most important green benefit of polystyrene is its lightness, meaning less wood is needed to support the building.
Ms. McInerny brings a lightness that only a widow like herself could, eliciting not just the deep, dark details from her subjects but the funny and strange ones, too.
Tamir didn't resent Jacob—he would have been Jacob, given the choice—but he had lost some of the lightness necessary to appreciate someone as light as his cousin.
But beyond that lightness, so full of art, there is a profoundly cosmopolitan sensibility that sees through everything, especially the way different cultures diverge and collide and face off.
Her use of blacks and grays with metallic and earth tones furthers the connection to architecture, even as the mesh surfaces and sharp angles underscore a lightness of touch.
All of them look muddy and not drastically different from one another: But if we ignore changes in saturation and lightness by setting them to the same value across the board, we can see the hues more clearly: And here is what saturation looks like if we ignore hue and lightness: Using the methods outlined above, we analyzed the average hues and saturation for each episode and each season of Game of Thrones.
The Watch Style prioritizes lightness and design, and is the nicer of the two smartwatches, but how does it not have a heart-rate sensor, NFC, or built-in GPS?
This one day of lightness and frivolity during an otherwise dark and gloomy time pulls us out of the deepest doldrums and gives us an opportunity to celebrate ridiculous creativity.
"Throughout her life, Franciszka developed a pictorial language that, while ignoring expressionism, conveyed emotion with a lightness of touch and delicacy of line," co-curator Joanna Mackiewicz-Gemes told Hyperallergic.
American midfielder Megan Rapinoe said that there was a "certain lightness" about their approach which some misinterpret as "aloofness" while Wiegman saw no problem with the attitude of Sunday's opponents.
The video cites other examples for aluminum's importance, like how its lightness is favored in power lines (even though copper is a better conductor) and how its used in construction.
The chief obstacle is that no known material has the necessary combination of lightness and strength needed for the cable, which has to be able to support its own weight.
So, it was dark but there was sort of a lightness to it still—like a lot of people, a total shitshow was not necessarily what I expected to happen.
Whether the undeniable lightness I felt was the effect of some miracle compound or all in my head is certainly up for debate, but seriously, who cares at this point.
I was feeling great because I'd done it, but then I noticed after about an hour I started to feel a lightness, like a weight had been lifted off me.
For me, lightness means clarity, and because I don't have that much clarity on the reasons behind why these things happen, the darkness is a really important aspect of it.
But the symmetry of its shape, the expertly weighted stiffness of the hinge — neither too resistant nor too loose — and its gossamer lightness just exude quality, and maybe even luxury.
Made with separated eggs to achieve lightness, her version is at once rustic and refined, fragrant with orange and lemon zests, vanilla and cinnamon, and lightly dusted with powdered sugar.
He searched online and came across sexsomnia, which they both believe was what occurred that night and on other occasions when Alex had touched Miller with uncharacteristic lightness or roughness.
When I visited her a few days after the decision, she was visibly changed, carrying herself with a lightness I have rarely seen inside the walls of the detention center.
The 5-millimeter-thick watch's dial and bracelet are laser-engraved with a feather motif, said by Ms. Miro to symbolize "wisdom, nobility and spirituality" and the lightness of ceramic.
SUNDAY PUZZLE — Ross Trudeau is among the constructors that bring a lightness to their puzzles — they're not simple (or uninteresting) solves, but they're sort of easygoing and suave, I guess.
Other work has shown that so-called front-vowel sounds, like the "i" in "mil," evoke smallness and lightness, while back-vowel sounds, as in "mal," evoke heaviness and bigness.
She was reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and he was reading "White Tiger," and he approached her, asking if it was her first time through the Milan Kundera novel.
Known in particular for his interpretations of the Romantic literature, he was lauded for the fleetness of his fingers, the lightness of his tone and the thoughtfulness of his interpretations.
The sublime feeling nurtured by Rondinone's night sky paintings receives a jolt of jokey, Pop lightness with the Grands Nuages series of sky blue, cloud-shaped canvases, like "fünfundzwanzigsterjunizweitausendundfünfzehn" (2015).
" You can hear that mindset in action on Emiranda's My Face, which he and Toxe released earlier this year in an attempt to, he explains, "bring a lightness back to music.
While Barron will be commuting to the private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland, he will likely add that certain lightness to the White House that only a child can bring.
According to Ars, the software intelligently analyzes each SDR video frame-by-frame and then assigns it a "lighting style" an appropriate profile that basically adjusts the picture's lightness and contrast.
Here is the narrator as she watches Fred Astaire dance with his own shadows: I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere.
Not all of his high C-flats, Cs, and D-flats landed on target, but his tone had the right lightness and brightness for grand opera—a slender but cutting blade.
When the pallbearers in a royal funeral procession suddenly start to shimmy beneath the Pharaonic bier, this production achieves a giddy but potent satirical lightness that it seldom otherwise rises to.
"They were crazy years," said Karolina Lewandowska, the museum's curator of photography and the show's mastermind, who acknowledges that "The Unbearable Lightness" was put together to draw in a younger audience.
But I realize, as I continue to pummel myself with Spa 700, that it's not so much a lightness I experience, but more the relief you feel after a deep clean.
There are many variations of this taco, but what is consistent is fish battered with a bit of beer, which gives it that lightness (another constant is the mayo and cabbage).
The suit is a big improvement according to Ferguson, compared to the ones he used to wear, especially with regards to astronaut mobility thanks to the lightness of the materials used.
Garabedian isn't letting on, and the gentle, cheeky humor pervading the image — "monumental but gawky," in Samet's phrase — suffuses it with a lightness of touch that escapes any hint of ponderousness.
He points to problems that exist within (and well beyond) the Black community, where the lightness of your skin can play a role in how you are perceived by one another.
And though leprosy may not be a common cinematic hook, the familiarity of the hero's quest gives Beshay's journey a lightness and predictability that seems at once welcoming and somewhat weightless.
Valued for its lightness and anti-corrosive properties, demand for aluminium from U.S. drinks firms is expected to rise over coming years as they come under pressure to cut plastic pollution.
In slow movements, you notice how little vibrato the strings use; though the resulting sound is sometimes chalky, typically sentimental passages are recolored with a lightness that doesn't skimp on lyricism.
Medvedeva's free program, performed to music from the film "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," was her latest tour de force under pressure: brimming with difficulty and her trademark lightness and flow.
Consistently, a lightness of touch is evident, contrasting sharply against explorations of deteriorating mental health and, thus, allowing these fantastically rendered yet absolutely relatable stories the room they need to breathe.
It's a wonderfully silly sequence that demonstrates Jane's total lack of basketball skills, and a scene that brings lightness to an episode full of parenting stress, drug lords, and — oh yeah — murder.
And Mr. Jenkins's language, moving like the flowing of a river through both the shallows and the depths, has a lightness of touch even when it is at its most plainly philosophical.
Then they upgraded the chassis both for stiffness and lightness (it weighs 55 pounds less than the F-TYPE R). Finishing off the look, Jag bolted up some lightweight 20-inch wheels.
Like all flying creatures there is a great emphasis on lightness and simplicity, allowing this robot (like its distant forebear, Festo's bird) to flap around realistically and stay aloft for a time.
They look good, fit snugly, and sound great Fit is always the most underrated aspect of sound and the thing that makes the Nocs attractive is their almost ethereal lightness and smallness.
"I was recently in a traditional office building and it made me realize all the things in this building I take for granted – the lightness, airiness, connectedness to the outside," she said.
Tangerine was all about flamboyance and drag; in The Florida Project, the excess surrounding Disney World offers a similar spectacle, all lightness and entertainment to let people look away from grimmer realities.
I think once she saw the work that I had done, collectively, but especially Brooklyn Nine-Nine, she was like, 'Oh, there's going to be a lightness she can bring to this.
Though their jokes tackled the expected timely topics — sexual harassment, Roseanne, representation — they were delivered with an offhand lightness that robbed them of their deserved weight, and thus dulled their comedic impact.
Distinguished by a sly, comedic beauty, her work has a playful, knowing, almost-Rococo lightness of being in which pleasure, humor, intelligence and a seductive sense of usually high color mingle freely.
In a 63 interview with the Village Voice, the Canadian appeared baffled by Americans' perpetual emphasis on skin tone and lightness, noting that American fans frequently viewed him as white, not black.
"The language of some of our most beloved food writers has gone from flavor and feasting to cleanness and lightness," Ms. Tandoh lamented in an essay written for Vice U.K. last year.
For all its flaws, "Fifty Shades of Grey" had a competent director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, who mostly wrung a watchable movie out of the material, partly by letting lightness and laughter in.
The team tried to devise a program that could locate noses, lips, and the like by parsing patterns of lightness and darkness in a photograph, but the effort was mostly a flop.
The weightiness of the dark colors belies the lightness of the paper, while the black border disappears into the frame's black mounting board, which extends an inch beyond the edge of the sheet.
"Because of the unique 21-degree angle at which hair is cut, the hair sits with a lightness and a healthiness that isn't delivered with any other razor or scissors," he told me.
As users, we expect all the thinness, lightness, and versatility that we're used to from smartphones, but married to the always-on time display and two-day battery life of a mechanical watch.
"Saporè" is an amalgam of the Italian word for flavor and Mr. Bosco's nickname, Rè. But it's a bit of a misnomer: he is more obsessed with crunch and pliability, lightness and heft.
There's a lightness that comes from realizing that there will be people who don't like you — and that in most cases, trying to change their minds is a terrible use of your time.
"What we did with that silhouette was to try and give it a lightness and a fluidity and very little structure, so that Emma didn't feel inhibited or trapped by it," Durran said.
The lightness of the looks was interrupted at times by heavy coats covering the dresses, capes with fur cuffs as well as denim trousers and tops, used in past collections by the brand.
Tracks like "Dream House" and "Sunbather" felt like sprawling conceptual exercises in the inherent instability of genre, while others like "Irresistible" and "Vertigo" basked in a lightness completely foreign to the band's progenitors.
Urie, a Texan of Scottish and Italian descent, born in 1980, doesn't necessarily convey Jewish baby boomer, and he has a lightness of spirit that's more characteristic of his generation than of Fierstein's.
Within the framework of the rather spare story he wrote, Mr. Thompson burnishes the performances of the young actors, keeping an air of sun-spangled lightness in all but the most dire moments.
The plangent sweetness of Ms. Gal-Ed's tone and the chiseled grace of her phrasing were beautifully set off by orchestral playing that maintained a springy lightness in both vivacious and deliberate movements.
I was distrustful of her lightness and slightly European features, though they weren't so different from my own, and I was convinced she had been getting lighter over the course of her career.
"Six Memos for the Next Millennium," Italo Calvino This small publication of Calvino's Charles Eliot Norton lectures given at Harvard in 1985 is divided into five topics: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.
The Brun Morgon comes from an area of sandy decomposed granite that is said to be similar to the soil of Corcellete, which perhaps accounts for the lightness and elegance of the wine.
His troupe is called Ballet Flamenco Jesús Carmona, and it's not hard to identify several ballet-derived ingredients — as in the partnering, arm positions and lightness of one male-female pas de deux.
As the architect Arata Isozaki wrote, in "Japan-ness in Architecture," the "concepts perceived to underlie" the production of Japanese work — "simplicity, humility, purity, lightness and shibusa (sophisticated austerity)" — became markers of Japaneseness.
If "Catch Me if You Can" indicated that she was a fresh talent, "Junebug" suggested the richness of her range, showing her gift for moving from emotional lightness to darkness and back again.
But the lightness and winking quality that softened the slaughter are less evident in "John Wick: Chapter 2," an altogether more solemn affair weighed down by the philosophy that more is always more.
But it also has moments of lightness and strangeness, as well as kinks and sour notes, which strengthen the sense that these are people, not figurines in a dutiful, paint-by-numbers biopic.
These songs flicker, keyed to the intricate chitchat between Buck Meek's acoustic and electric guitars, which entwine with a hushed lightness accentuated and often obliterated by blasts of electric noise that eventually subside.
But the point of the resulting album is neither tune nor groove but flow — constant, sweeping, sinuous forward motion, embodied in the lightness of her band and the piercing clarity of her voice.
You could describe both albums as soulful, but they also feature an arsenal of production trickery, where tones drift across with the lightness of smoke but feel as impactful as a week-long fog.
If at times this lightness threatens to undermine the sense of peril the plot needs, on subsequent readings young readers and lovers of magic will still find this good-natured story hard to resist.
Fueled by the whimsy and lightness of balloons, the artists of Inflatable have infused their creations with a technology, scale, and creative complexity that expands our vision of what contemporary art can look like.
But as I felt its lightness in my hands, I took measure, as the minutes pressed in around me, both of who I have been and what I want to save of that person.
In addition to its lightness, the new gadget is more comfortable, in part because the battery and other computing components were moved from the front of the headset to the back, distributing the weight.
Yet though the size of his sound was unprecedented, the penetrating lightness of his unslurred vocals was as boyish as the young Eminem's because the crystalline words meant even more than the irresistible music.
I read with the Oasis on the train, in bed and at work, and started to realize that, while I like the large screen, I miss the lightness and balance of a smaller device.
The Zwirner show captures that lightness in its Chelsea installation and gives it an ideal historical context in a show titled "Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray" at its Upper East Side space.
Adidas worked with another German company called AMSilk, incorporating its Biosteel fabric, a new type of fiber "grown" by bacteria and designed to mimic the properties of natural spider silk—namely, strength and lightness.
It is impossible to say who contributed what in this wonderfully expressive work, which — like so many works in this exhibition — exquisitely captures the lightness of being that was the essence of Black Mountain.
If there is something newly innocent, too, in his lovely scenes with Mallory Bechtel as Zoe — Ms. Bechtel is 19 — the relative lightness of their youthful interactions makes the adult ones that much darker.
Most of the glamour and lightness that we associate with Champagne is because of those dainty little bubbles that fizz in your mouth while you force conversation during Christmas and New Years' Eve parties.
He also experimented with exaggerated volumes, as seen in bulbous '60s-inspired taffeta dresses and gowns, while a carefree spirit of the Italian Riviera infused the collection with a sense of lightness and ease.
In an effort to maintain the soil's lightness, Château le Puy now uses four horses for plowing about a third of its vines instead of heavy tractors, which can compress and harden the earth.
After running multiple tests, she struck on the right calibrations, resulting in craggy puffs of dark bronze that shatter and vanish, richness yielding to lightness, leaving not a trace of oil on the fingers.
" Then there was Inès de la Fressange, otherwise known for her associations with Chanel and Roger Vivier, who added: "I think in France we sometimes lack a bit of lightness and gaiety in dressing.
With quality contributions from yacht-rock veterans Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, the bassist and musical virtuoso Thundercat's "Show You The Way" brings deceptively cheery instrumentation to a metaphysical exploration of the lightness in darkness.
Under founder Colin Chapman, a legendary racer who died in 1982 at just 54, Lotus adopted the mantra, "simplify, then add lightness," something clearly visible in its aging lineup of models like the little Elise.
Listening to patients like Murphy describe their experience—a sudden lightness, an immediate surge of warmth—it's hard not to wonder whether, in tweaking a person's circuitry, we aren't also altering something at their core.
The works do not try to exist as something deeper or more complicated than this notion; they simply add a lightness to the dark, illuminating a common dream someplace where the lights are very low.
For me, a dark humor–an ability to have lightness when bringing dark topics in–is a key part of my work as a performer; I want everyone to be in on the (grim) joke.
" For him, this air of grace is particularly present in his drawing, Pamela, which he says "has a lightness to it that reminds me of the girl on the bus that day in New York.
And when that natural lightness is missing, you notice it's absent — "Adore You," a lovestruck highlight on her debut LP For All We Know, is remarkable in part because its vocal treatment is so conventional.
The cloudy, complex pieces on Reverse acknowledge the unimaginable grief and disarray that comes when you lose people that you love, but there's a lightness to them too, with room for recovery amidst the darkness.
In fact, my solitary issue with the Essence's sound is a lightness of bass — it's accurate, but nowhere near as satisfying as the gooey goodness of something like the Beoplay H6 headphones I just reviewed.
The child learned to make pictures of pure lightness—unicorns and suns with grins and houses with fences, the woman's own face in careful brown circles with a giant slash of red for a mouth.
Though she confides that she wishes she could emulate Bonnie Raitt's rasp—"Maybe I quit drinking too early"—it's Nadler's own wavering, ghostly pipes that give her music its unearthly lightness, and its darkness, too.
His conducting tended toward the more lush side of Beethoven interpretations — not nearly as ponderous as the Romanticized heft that dominated much of the 20th century, yet lacking the dashing lightness of historically informed performance.
In these sections, which follow Fred out into the lonely, rugged streets, a strain of the urban idyll jangles with the felt textures of poverty, and the moral stakes take on a gauzy, nostalgic lightness.
The pieces emphasized both lightness — with delicate silver-flecked lace and a palette of mainly black and white — as well as technical intricacy, manifest in crystal-embroidered organza gowns and dresses with origami-like folds.
Woolf grasped intuitively that narrative daring and insouciance could be driven to political ends, that lightness of heart did not mean an absence of conviction, but she remained unconvinced that her contemporaries would get it.
Early on we baby boomers rejected the stiff formalities of an earlier generation for an easy physicality, an appreciative give-and-take across gender lines that graced daily life with moments of lightness and warmth.
Cuts like "Lofty Can" and "One By One" exude a lightness of character, and a freedom of movement, that while not unheard of, mark the record out as his most outwardly engaged work to date.
Roach started out directing comedies and his background generally works for him in "Bombshell," which he gives a lightness of touch in the beginning that promises (rightly, sometimes wrongly) everything will work out just fine.
His work is cool and calculated like Pop from the '60s, but it's generous, too, veering toward the lightness of a given situation — from a kiss to a modeling session — rather than the existential darkness.
As he sat across from me at a Los Angeles taco stand, I could sense an optimistic lightness to Isaiah Woods, the college football player whose battle with mental illness I wrote about last year.
Overall, the lightness coupled with the balance of flavors and textures made this a knock-out slice for me and I will surely be getting it again on my next trip to The Cheesecake Factory.
When Michael Glover wrote about a Skarstedt Gallery exhibition of late de Koonings in 19733, he described the gallery director brushing away his questions about Alzheimer's, saying "a new lightness" had entered de Kooning's work.
Personal Health After two hourlong sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the Feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being.
Matt Lituchy, chief investment officer of the building's developer, Jay Paul Company, told Business Insider in a 2016 interview that the floating walls were costly, but Diaz-Azcuy liked the element of lightness they added.
Even for expert glassmakers at the Corning, who are creating a Blaschka-themed "aquarium" in the hot glass amphitheater, achieving lightness in a jellyfish or fluidity of movement in a sea worm is a challenge.
Throughout the film's more than two hours, the Guyana-born actress brings the action story some comedic relief, adding a touch of necessary lightness to the dark moments that reflect the current fissures in Black communities.
There's also just an overall lightness and chill vibe in the way we treat each other – we speak to each other and treat each other like humans and approach our work together with humility and respect.
I usually hate wearing fitness trackers or smartwatches to sleep because they're bulky and dig into my skin, but the Galaxy Watch Active's smooth, curved edges, along with its lightness, made it a comfortable bedtime companion.
The best headphones are the ones you reach for most often, and the R70x have quickly become my second favorite after the AirPods, which excel in the same parameters of lightness and ease of extended use.
ROMEO: Nay, nay, thrice times nay, I simply mean that like the sun, um, thou giveth life, and bring lightness all around … JULIET: Thou sayest I'm a big fat round sun, is that what thou sayest?
The computer is impressive in many ways — certainly the innovative new TouchBar looks cool — but, like most of Apple's other products, it appears to be optimized for lightness and thinness rather than for true professional use.
Her work is simultaneously delicate and sturdy, with spare, often skeletal guitar and piano creating a foundation for her rich, feathery voice, the lightness of which often betrayed the seriousness of what she was singing about.
"I think that Natacha will add some intellectual 'rive gauche' depth to that kind of 'unbearable lightness of being' typical of the Chloé girl," Virginie Mouzat, the fashion and lifestyle editor of French Vanity Fair, said.
As in her 2016 opera "Breaking the Waves," Ms. Mazzoli conjures bleakness with an uncanny, confident mixture of instrumental savagery and eerie lightness, as when a moody orchestral storm recedes into the glassy drone of harmonicas.
In the case of the playful, innocent "Raggedy Dances" — which features music by Scott Joplin and Mozart — six dancers shimmy and roll their way through Ms. Tharp's silken movement, creating a landscape of lightness and naïveté.
" ZACHARY WOOLFE The gentle, caressing lightness of the beginning, like she's sharing the secret that will save your life, turns insouciant, and almost witty when she mentions "the birds and the bees right in His hand.
With a lightness and sense of play that is typically reserved for fashion jewelry, Khouri realizes seemingly miraculous designs in exquisite precious stones that have won fans such as the actresses Carey Mulligan and Charlize Theron.
It's an ensemble whose inherent lightness and elastic ease of movement feels like a reflection of that juxtaposition of contemporary feminism (the slogan T-shirt) and historical throwback (the Bar jacket) currently on her own back.
Your circadian rhythm responds to lightness and darkness so when you travel through time zones, your body is actively trying to figure out how to get back onto its normal schedule, which might alter your period.
The Be4 are built around one of the priciest materials around, beryllium, whose lightness and rigidity prove incredibly useful in the creation of dynamic audio drivers that can recreate music faithfully and without improper resonances or distortion.
With both Horgan and Parker on board, along with the droll bravado of Thomas Haden Church as Frances's soon-to-be-ex Robert, the show should have had more lightness, it should have bounded through its jokes.
And there was a gallery installation consisting of hundreds of old baseballs strewn across the floor and a video, imageless but with a dialogue clip from the 1988 film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" as a soundtrack.
The bread is tricky to make: You have to use all 10 fingers, pressing the dough away, then lifting back and pressing it away again, all down its length, so that pockets of air form, bringing lightness.
Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," for instance, remains a luminous meditation on life's fleetingness, set against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia — and also has the all the juicy details of our hero's voluminous sex life.
" But mostly it's the director's touch that makes this episode work: Johnson "brings lightness to his banter, visual flair (not simply bleeding-edge special effects) to the design, and narrative savvy to Rey and Kylo Ren's relationship.
I remember strapping my 16-year-old self into the small aircraft, which seemed so tinny and even improvised — qualities that suggested lightness but that also reminded me of my Swedish uncle's terrifying, Soviet-era Lada car.
Each painting in this exhibition began as an investigation into color's three distinct attributes: hue (a single, pure color), value (the lightness or darkness of a color), and saturation (the relative purity or intensity of a color).
But we're never ever trying be shocking or dark for shock or darkness' sake, and it's really important to all of us, and to me, to make sure that we find the lightness and the hope inside that.
At 85 minutes, Little Men is a slight little shrug of a film, but that lightness carries with it a calm frankness about how people behave, Sachs never lets cinematic artifice distract us from human beings' fundamental nature.
Both songs have an expansive sense of space to them—a playful lightness that allows Kent to revel in the pleasure of a late night drive, and to fantasize about an interstellar honeymoon with a candidly human innocence.
A moment of lightness, if you please: Temporarily relieved from con-man duty, Frank the accomplice-in-chief spends the episode spellchecking Word docs and cooking up a Mexican-Italian storm for everyone able to consume solid foods.
With a 44mm diameter, this is intended primarily to serve as a men's watch, but I find its lightness, high degree of comfort, and unisex styling make it more versatile than the typical dress watch of this size.
But it said her decision to move to arbitration rather than letting the courts decide the case, against the advice of state agencies, demonstrated a "haste and lightness that constitute grave negligence on the part of a minister".
There are two sides to every person and story; while that might freak some people out, since it sounds complicated and dishonest, as a Libra you know that balance means having a little bit of lightness with darkness.
Kristen Stewart's performance in the role, which blends gravity and lightness, glamour and its opposite, is certainly the best part of "Café Society," but it also exposes just how thin and tired the rest of the movie is.
"For us, it's like our personal monogram," Silvia Fendi said of the double F, before a show with its own unforced energy that layered — literally — the geometries of Italian Futurism with the leaves and lightness of the tropics.
One of the key things about Winogrand is that he's really funny, so I think there's a kind of lightness, maybe, or a humor in the way I write about practically everything that is quite appropriate for Winogrand.
There is an archbishop with a lisp, babbling about "thovereignty," who could have been imported from a Monty Python sketch, although the movie as a whole is low on lightness, and laughs are about as common as laptops.
The C28 Carbine is advertised as having "been battle proven in harsh combat environments … for over 28 years," but, according to the Toronto police, the weapon's lightness and accuracy also makes it well-suited for Canada's urban environments.
Though she wasn't ready to fix it just yet, she started reading books about it — including actress Portia de Rossi's 2010 memoir, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, in which she detailed her own struggle with anorexia.
It's a testament to the accessibility of their music — from the explosive "Pirate King" and anthemic "Treasure" to the tropical house lightness of "Stay" — to their dynamic performances that received massive attention even before they had released any music.
His character Sam is a convicted sex offender (he dated a 17-year old when he was 23) and known drug pusher (he's offering experiences!), but Yelchin brings a lightness to the role that balances the film out expertly.
He's also interested in the philosophical benefits of looking back on the uninhibited joy and lightness that came with his martial arts film fandom and is consciously trying to bring some of that childhood innocence to his current career.
Martino Gamper showed colorful drums (covered in Nike's Flyknit fabric) that connoted rhythm and pace and Max Lamb showcased hulking blocks of granite and aluminum, which glide atop a thin plane of compressed air, alluding to lightness and weight.
Could we sit around and continue wallowing in this bit of despair, or do something positive and try to create something good from those experiences, and make something new and fresh, and try to find some lightness from that?
Almost everything here—including the beef, caviar, and produce—is local, and there's a lightness to her creations, although she isn't shy about judiciously applying a pat of butter or splash of cream when a dish calls for it.
The band's previous output was underpinned by a certain nihilistic darkness, and while that's present on this song, there's also an airiness and lightness to the music and the melody that lulls you into a false sense of security.
Wallpaper from the 1920s, Picasso's "Femmes à Leur Toilette", Surrealism, Palm Beach, sofas from the 1980s, brocades and foulards, diamonds and cocktails — they were all in there, spliced together with an enticing lightness of tone and ease of movement.
"You've got the Brie texture that's nutty and with a crushed leaves sort of earthiness, and then you've got the earthiness of the truffle but the lightness of the cream around it which makes it absolutely gorgeous," she explains.
" At other points, Gainza's writing conveys a certain lightness, as when the narrator notes that her mother "still held hopes of me marrying a polo player someday (a glimpse of my mother the negotiator: she liked money, I liked horses: voila).
When the chorus kicks in, however, an immediate lightness comes over the song, as an angular guitar lick and the simple, individual optimism of a lyric like "I'd love it if we made it" elbows the noise out of the way.
But "Tochal" is equally beautiful, possessing a lightness that lifts the listener from the madness of the urban sprawl to the dry and hazy heat of the Algerian desert, sand in their hair and boots, not a care in the world.
Aesthetically, "lightness" has long been asserted as superior, allowing for the possibility of racial passing, while "slightly" and "politely" could refer to the tenuous position black women have conventionally occupied in society, one that has been shaped by invisibility and disrespect.
Add concentric circles coming off of the lightness axis out toward the edges of the color plane to represent saturation—more pastel-like toward the polar axis and more vivid toward the edge—and you can capture almost every perceptible color.
The whole thing is made out of carbon fiber, which Reichman tells me was the only way to achieve the desired lightness — and it was quite an engineering feat given the rapid production time, even if he says so himself.
Much of the weight of the group's lightness falls to Mr. Hoppus — that twinge of childlike hope in his voice is intact (though he is now 44) and remains perhaps the most recognizable and effective weapon in all of pop-punk.
The Times has curated a list of Kakutani's best reviews, but if you only have time for one, the lightness of her critical hand is perhaps best expressed by her review of Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939, which went viral this fall.
The Danish author Madame Nielsen's debut in English translation, "The Endless Summer," is very much in the latter category, telling the story of a family that indulges in life's lightness, ultimately paying the price for ignoring the weight of being.
"Mark Zuckerberg had a huge advantage with Facebook because the pressure that normal people have of building a company was replaced by the lightness of him just playing around with ideas," said Mike Maples, an investor at the firm Floodgate.
Whatever you cook this weekend in advance of the coming Thanksgiving feast, whatever you do to bring lightness into your life at a time when darkness abounds, please keep in mind those who are or have been in harm's way.
Young French designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, who has an eponymous label, or Alexandre Mattiussi of French house Ami, are designers who could bring lightness or humour to the brand, said Mathias Ohrel of Paris-based luxury recruiters m-O Conseil.
In 23, Tom Wolfe, whose own taste in interiors ran to damask and lacquer, published " From Bauhaus to Our House ," a polemical defense of "coziness & color" and an indictment of the "whiteness & lightness & leanness & cleanness & bareness & spareness" of austere modern design.
If the windows offer a lightness, a moment to pause in time and drift into infinity, then the two bonsai, whose dense, visible surface roots (nebari, which are considered a balance to the tree's sinuous branches) return you to earth.
Building from the theory of the ancient Greek philosopher Thales that we are all water, Afterglow shows that, more than just primordial ooze or bodily fluid, water can be toxic poison (alcohol) or a healing pool of light and lightness.
Spuds, much like those Vineyard Vines-wearing boys who competed against me in drinking games, emanated a lightness of being that I neither fully understood nor was able to embody, but at times seemed so close I could feel it.
There is an unusual lightness to him, the sort that would not seem to reconcile with a 16-year-old who runs so violently on the football field that a defender once slinked out of his way to avoid tackling him.
The previous two contestants to the title, 1991's The Low End Theory and 1993's slightly less acclaimed Midnight Marauders, cultivated lightness, casualness, the rapid-fire conversational exchanges between Phife Dawg and Q-Tip evoking two friends relaxing and shooting the breeze.
Why it's gift-worthy: The new MacBook doesn't have the oomph of a Pro — but what it lacks in performance, it makes up for in outta-this-world lightness and thinness, making it an ideal laptop for someone who's always moving around.
Many of them, such as "Jim," are from the stressful streets of New York City, "After attending the cuddle party this past Sunday, I stepped out onto the street and definitely had a very good feeling, a lightness, peaceful and smiley," Jim wrote.
"This tweet is much appreciated as I've suffered with depression/anxiety and had dark days where everything is an effort but lightness always follows darkness so yes always hang in there even if just by a teeny weeny thread," someone else wrote.
To me, though, the most interesting facet of Clemson-Alabama centers on the question of whether Clemson can find a way to differentiate itself from Alabama, to play this game with the sort of lightness and sense of humor that Alabama lacks.
The producer SebastiAn—who you may know as the French guy talking about Facebook on Frank Ocean's Blond(e)—gave much of the record an eerie lightness, informed by Gainsbourg's affinity for weepy disco and the crisp neon of synthy horror scores.
Taryn Simon also combined the lightness of floral art with the weight of political tension in her 2015 piece, Agreement Establishing the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, Al-Bayan Palace, Kuwait City, Kuwait, May 30, 2006, Paperwork and the Will of Capital.
Gender norms in ballet have developed through the use of the pointe shoe, worn by women to create the illusion of lightness and of floating, and the rules of partnering: Lifts require upper-body strength that men access more easily than women.
Born at Paris's venerated art and architecture school, the École des Beaux-Arts, the hallmarks of the movement from the 193th and early 20th centuries are classical weightiness, grandeur and tradition combined with a technologically aided focus on lightness, uplift and intricate ornamentation.
" And "Coming Home," a collaboration with Ms. Lauryn Hill, has the lightness of gospel: "Now it's jail poses and club pictures, airbrush backdrops and jail visits/This the dope boy song for the dope boys gone/Let 'em know it's still snowing.
Perhaps his opening aria, "Tra voi belle," was a touch forced and lacked the Mozartean lightness that should characterize this openhearted student at the beginning of the story, but through the evening his voice developed a virile beauty of uncanny power and depth.
In contrast, the Van Cleef show is to take a more abstract approach, with its curator, Alba Cappellieri, selecting themes — and jewelry pieces that illustrate them — from what Calvino wrote were his eternal values for literature: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency.
"What We Do in the Shadows" might be a strange title for a show whose main attribute is its lightness, but in its small way, it offers an antidote to that, while demonstrating that there's room for a fresh spin on funny monsters.
Even so, he has to convince you that these searching, burgeoning heroes and villains fit together emotionally, not simply on a Lucasfilm whiteboard, and that they have the requisite lightness and heaviness, the ineffable spirit and grandeur to reinvigorate a pop-cultural juggernaut.
" And "Coming Home," a collaboration with Ms. Lauryn Hill, has the lightness of gospel: "Now it's jail poses and club pictures, airbrush backdrops and jail visits/This the dope boy song for the dope boys gone/Let 'em know it's still snowing.
Does Ready Player One know that it's a dark story recounted with oblivious lightness, in the same way that someone might tell you what they think is a funny anecdote about a wild night out but that sounds more like a description of alcoholism?
It's when she steps away from the lightness of the scenes to hint at their darker histories — the reasons for her separation from her family's lifestyle, the sexual trauma of her past — that the memoir becomes a more contemplative look at religion and belief.
The Atlanta library has windows that angle as elegantly as those in the Met Breuer; the Tire Building has a soaring use of concrete similar to the lightness embodied by his best work, like the bell tower of the 1955 St. John's Abbey in Minnesota.
So I feel like I have this lightness about it that allows other people to feel as if they can be themselves as well within the concept of not doing anything that's explicitly harmful to the team or to the other players or whatever.
The lightness of the body paired with the four-wheel steering that is complimented by the buttery but potent power of the twin-turbo V22016 — accented by the incredible plushness of the magnetic ride control suspension — make for one hugely impressive and rewarding ride.
With these pieces and throughout …Which's Ploying the Fans, the artist exploits the feminine gendering that accompanies details like unconventional and low installation, lightness (in color and weight), and apparent imprecision to take on the systems of exchange between the spectator and the art.
" Chopra starts his day with three or four intentions: "I'm going to maintain a joyful, energetic body today; a loving and compassionate heart today; a reflective and quiet and creative and centered mind today; and lightness of being and laughter today, whatever it takes.
Amanda Gutiérrez, a Mexican photographer based in New York, has recently opened an evocative exhibition here: In "Walking in Lightness," her images of Sunset Park apartment blocks, storefronts and fruit vendors are printed with variable dye shifts or collaged on top of each other.
As with much recent Korean R&B, most notably IU's Palette, the album declines the immediately hooky mode for a delicate, exquisite touch, almost feathery in its lightness, but Poet Artist is more conventionally upbeat than the impossibly gossamer Palette, and hooks appear as well.
Though the painting's title, "Last Dance" (2016), hints at an impending and predictably disastrous confrontation with a train, reconciling this threat with the lightness of the painting's color, its schematic drawing, and the artist's seeming sardonic indifference to the scene's outcome, suggests an anesthetized sensibility.
And while he told The Associated Press that Ray Bolger's "The Old Soft Shoe" was an inspiration for the hubris of the Joker, there's also something of Astaire in his movement, especially in the way he creates lightness and space in his upper body.
Working in an austere palette of black, gray and white, she sent out an array of pared-back silhouettes that featured plenty of Chanel signatures (Peter Pan collars, prim tweed skirts) realized with a distinct lightness of touch — several featured tulle or chiffon overlays.
In place of the traditional watchmakers' marketing focus on precision and performance, "at Hermès we talk about a different time: one about lightness, about fantasy, about freedom of tone, about freshness," he said, adding that communicating this difference was essential to the company's growth.
As his work for seven dancers moves from darkness (the staid and somber Assyrian Court) to tranquillity (the meditative Chinese Garden Court) and finally lightness (a bright court in the American Wing), Mr. Farley takes the audience on a journey laced with history and spirituality.
Attached to these shafts have been putter heads made of large lumps of lead ('weight makes the ball roll true,' salesmen explain) and slivers of aluminum ('lightness makes the ball roll true,' salesmen explain) as well as every other substance harder than a marshmallow.
For American visitors these materials are informative — many viewers likely only have a vague sense of the Prague Spring as a liberalization of Czech society in 1968 that threatened Soviet rule and serves as the setting for Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The show, organized by the gallery's Director and Curator Hyewon Yi, presents ample evidence that Leigh is a major, albeit under-recognized, American sculptor who has transformed the Minimalist penchant for reductive form and flat-footed fabrication into something of exquisite lightness, sensuality and grace.
And while the laidback lightness of Jamma's productions and illustrations may seem to oppose the back-alley shadows of Arcane's visual identity, both the label and the artist share an ability to use sound and imagery to completely immerse listeners in a distinctive mood.
Since lightness is key to the success of this recipe, do check your baking soda and baking powder for signs of age; if you're unsure just how long that box of baking soda has been sitting around, go for it and invest in a new one.
As a result, Wade has achieved a lightness rarely seen in aging greats, who typically handle their waning superiority with reflexive denial, their psyches are wired to double down on the same formula that accorded them their success, and they bet on themselves until they're broke.
While Stella, once he broke from the mold of Greenbergian flatness, could equate presence only with volume and visual weight, Bonnefoi's response to the same strictures was an emphasis on thinness and on the absence of physical weight; an excess of both material and metaphorical lightness.
Because we also want to know how light or dark the color is—how much of the so-called achromatic colors white and black it has—you can build another axis, perpendicular again to the other two, a z sticking right through the center, for lightness.
I loved being reunited with an old Pig standby, the bitter green salad with lobes of lemon pulp and pigs' ears fried to a crackerlike lightness, and I have a new appreciation for the plump mussels in a lightly sour curry that tastes of toasted spices.
It's more than this, though: Blakeney says interest in natural materials like rattan likely also has something to do with consumers' and manufacturers' attempts to move away from plastic, and that the popularity of online shopping makes rattan's lightness a benefit to businesses shipping these products.
It was a tale told on the runway and off, in the way they imbued the house with a high romanticism married to an almost monklike purity of line, a youthful lightness of being with its own discipline, and in the alacrity with which customers responded.
At first, I couldn't identify what the strange feeling was—a sort of lightness in the right rear pocket, where I kept my wallet, and a chest-tightening deficiency of balance, and a sensation as if all the rubber bands around my bankroll had been cut.
She sings, "Someday in bravery, I'll embody all the grace and lightness," and then she gives examples of what she means: traveling the world on tour seeing her friends, becoming friends with their friends, seeing a picture of her friend and calling her a light beam.
As for editing the details of your images, the app offers a wide range of tools, from basic ones like saturation and lightness to more intense capabilities like advanced curves, touch tools (which make it easier to alter particular parts of the photo), and double exposure.
A Cuban-born drummer, Mela has a deep grounding in Afro-Caribbean percussion tradition — and a hunger to explore the outer limits of a drum set's capabilities, often by playing with an extreme lightness of touch or by letting tempo fade out, giving way to texture.
London Theater Reviews Lightness of touch can be among the most difficult theatrical virtues to achieve, which means that not even the gossamer presence of the sublime Eve Best can keep the Menier Chocolate Factory's intriguing makeover of "Love in Idleness" from feeling like pretty heavy going.
After three years and over 10,000 prototypes, the resulting 3.9-quart pot features a triple coating of cadmium-free enamel, a remarkably airtight seal and its namesake Vermicular graphite iron — a material that is difficult to manipulate but unmatched in its heat conductivity, lightness and durability.
By contrast, with their blobby charm and sprays of errant circles shooting off from their sides, "Untitled" (ink on washi, 2010) and "Untitled (HD 2210)" (ink on paper, 2010) possess both the sturdiness of otherworldly bowling balls and the gossamer lightness of big, overblown puffs of cotton candy.
This movie badly needs some lightness, and the only person who seems willing to provide it is Robert Pattinson, who pops in for a few scenes as the French Dauphin, a louche fop with a weakness for gold silk and an accent that's directly descended from Pépé Le Pew.
Not much distinguishes Time for Us from the band's previous full-length record, the fizzy, glittering LOL (2016): both albums share a flowery pastoral aesthetic that's common in Korean pop, gliding with expertly manicured lightness as liquid keyboards and silky strings contain the songs in gilded, lace-plaited boxes.
I also liked how the lightness of Jayoung Yoon's cubic hair art (yes, made from real human hair) contrasted with the heaviness of the columns alongside it, and how Will Kurtz's newspaper-formed, life-size people (and raccoon) blended in with the visiting crowd when viewed from above.
Hooks are what make the record go 'round, synthetic bells and fizzle and pitched percussion and gleaming keyboards, pink fluffy puffy bouncy explosive squealing sugary syrupy cotton candy slick streamlined crafted softcore erotica, keyed to the contrast between the lightness of her sound and the smokiness of her voice.
Whether you were in the headspace to receive it or not, her voice compelled you to consume her thesis—to fall into her smoky, Billie Holliday-style jazz riffs and arrangements that were inspired by the lightness of Brandy's self-titled 1994 debut (an influence Badu herself has cited).
Held in the couture salons, which were painted white splashed with gold for the occasion, and set to the hip tones of a string quintet, the designers riffed on the Bar silhouette with airy organza volumes and gently tailored curves, adding a lightness of being to the traditional signature.
A bit of mousse and some light spritzes of L'Oreal Clay-to-Spray dry shampoo were used to give the hair a bit of lightness and "optimism," he said, before he left to ready the models with one last touch: a spontaneous-feeling low-ponytail-meets-half-bun.
He acknowledged that the carmaker has to think about what its brand means in the EV space, since signature Maserati trademarks like the sound of the engine and the lightness of the cars run at cross-purposes to EVs with whisper quiet motors and battery-laden heavy chassis.
But the overwhelming takeaway is one of lightness and elegance: the saline sweetness of smoked oysters under a blanket of crumbed grilled cauliflower, brightened by yuzu and the peppery sting of intensely fresh watercress; or ash-roasted chicken over a swoosh of pine nut purée, with fennel and grapes.
What makes the work more than an easy ode to people power is the associated video, in which we watch Mr. Htein Lin cast the hands of monks, journalists, poets, and youth activists, each of whom recounts their past run-ins with the military dictatorship with surprising lightness.
But without pumping up or milking the music in any way, Mr. Noseda led a vigorous, exacting and pulsing performance, drawing out inner details and lending lightness, with a mordant touch, to the many scenes of backstage bustle and frivolity at the company where Adriana is a star.
Despite being a ridiculously thorough scholar—he used to read everything ever written about his chosen topic, from Ezra Pound to Alfred Hitchcock—Ackroyd possesses a lightness of touch which means the reader never feels overwhelmed by the accumulation of facts, figures, and salacious anecdotes they're presented with.
It seems that Murder on the Orient Express's main source of lightness is meant to be Poirot, and more specifically his giant mustache, which the film takes every opportunity to lovingly highlight, at one point having Poirot sit up in bed wearing a leather mustache protector strapped to his face.
Mr. Mille — who has said he carved a bar of hotel soap into the RM 001 form one sleepless night — is a racing enthusiast who designed his first watch to both look and function like a Formula One car: Comfort, performance, shock-resistance, durability and lightness were top of mind.
In addition to the painstaking restoration and conservation of the theater's ornately painted, gilded surfaces — which took some 70,000 hours of work and brought more lightness and brightness back to the interior — the proscenium has also been enlarged to its original dimensions, after having been reduced during an earlier renovation.
Though La Compagnie, opened by the team behind Experimental Cocktail Club, boasts a head-spinning list of around six hundred bottles, an infectious lightness pervades the elegant setting, where the staff wears brightly patterned tracksuits on Tuesdays and aloha shirts on Fridays, to honor the Hawaiian heritage of the head bartender.
By all critical accounts, Mr. Yarbrough's silvery lyric tenor — a voice whose lightness belied his stocky appearance — was the group's acoustic linchpin, soaring memorably in traditional tunes including "John Henry" and contemporary numbers like "Charlie, the Midnight Marauder," about a hapless suburbanite who one night mistakenly enters the wrong house.
These ruptures are overt signs of more subtle shifts the characters undergo as they live, love and grow older, but Hesselholdt's most penetrating insights into the texture of lived experience come in moments of vivid imagery and unexpected humor, which bridge the weight of biography and the lightness of an instant.
But Brutalist Websites goes further in its definition of the movement by issuing a short, blunt manifesto: In its ruggedness and lack of concern to look comfortable or easy, Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism, and frivolity of today's web design.
Even last year's relatively quiet Image Objects had Hank Willis Thomas's exuberant "Liberty" — which consists of a metallic arm supporting a basketball — while 2013's Lightness of Being featured James Angus's warped tractor ("John Deere Model D") and 2012's Common Ground was presided over by Paul McCarthy's colossal ketchup bottle.
I couldn't help, however, loving best the moment in "melpomene" when Waldman leaves her prophet voice and segues into an updated spiritual tone, both tragic and delivered with desperate lightness: I looked over Jordan and what did I seeDrones over Jordan coming after meSinging the crimes of manI've got those Anthropocene Anthropocene blues.
It's not simply that his work is often highly ironic, but that his uses of language might be described as just outside of conventional expression — as the title of his new collection, Near / Miss suggests — which creates both a lightness and a weightiness in the writing that is odd in American poetry.
But in a year where the other MCU movies (Black Panther, then Infinity War) trended toward an almost DC-esque grimness, this one is particularly enjoyable because of its comparative lightness, and the way director Peyton Reed gets to stage inventive fights that take full advantage of the Ant-Man growing and shrinking technology.
She reeled off the list: plastic bags require nonrenewable fossil fuels for their manufacture, disperse themselves easily because of their lightness, impede waterways, contribute to flooding, pollute oceans, entangle wildlife, kill sea turtles, degrade to small particles, contaminate water and soil, overwhelm landfills, and cost huge amounts of money to clean up and dispose of.
To further model the black, he adds in color — yellow ocher, raw umber, two shades of blue — to give him seven blacks to work from, shades which differ chromatically, differing in color as opposed to differing in "value," the term in art for distinguishing lightness and darkness, the value of a pigment changing when white is added.
Unruly tensions abound across multiple levels, simple and complex, and it just might be that unique film that has no answers; but, as with the catharsis that comes at the end of great tragedy, if viewers can prepare themselves for a singularly excruciating time at the theater, they'll carry with them a lightness heading back out into the street.
Arevo is using the bike to demonstrate its design software and printing technology, which it hopes to use to produce parts for bicycles, aircraft, space vehicles and other applications where designers prize the strength and lightness of so-called "composite" carbon fiber parts but are put off by the high-cost and labor-intensive process of making them.
"Julia made things look effortless and forgiving if a chicken fell on the floor, and Madeleine was more a taskmaster who was much more serious and did not have a public lightness," Gary Danko, another former student of Ms. Kamman's and a chef who owns Restaurant Gary Danko in San Francisco, said in a telephone interview.
In her first aria, "Je suis encore tout étourdie," sung with enunciation so clear it could be transcribed, she has an innocent lightness that gives way to intoxicating joy as it becomes apparent that Manon is already too grand for her humble packaging at the start: slight frame; childish hat and ponytail; plain outfit in muted blues.
Other than a snowball fight that offered a dose of lightness after the previous hour's carnage, the episode seemed most notable in setting the stage for another season's worth of full-blown battle against the Whisperers; and perhaps more significantly, potentially expanding the role of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) by more fully incorporating him into the series.
Paradoxically strong and durable despite its lightness, papier-mâché became an industry; by the mid-21984s, at least 30 English manufacturers were making decorative and useful objects and furniture from it, including tables, chairs and canopy bed frames, though the pieces eventually became too kitschy for even the embellishment-mad Victorians and fell out of fashion.
Yet where a dramatic opera traditionally announces itself with bombast, The Ferryman — about a family living under the cyclical sway of political violence in Northern Ireland — is infused throughout with a deliberate lightness, a joyous humanism that attempts to counterbalance all the weight it's carrying: the weight of history, of life under oppression, of personal and communal secrets.
The exhibition features works he produced during his 2013 tenure as Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College, as well as a collaboration with printmaker Lucy Ganje called In Our Own Words: Native Impressions 2015 – 2016, Heyman's layered paintings, prints, and portraits possess an almost decorative lightness that often belies darker imagery, a more crucial and devastating truth.
But even beyond his show-stealing charisma, there's a lightness to those first films vs the sheer financial weight of the Star Wars brand now where teams of people necessarily have to be involved in making strategic decisions about a staggeringly long-running saga that's bogged down by its own chequered history and the need to carry fans that cut across generations.
The CDC describes the effects of eating toxic blowfish thusly: First stage: Numbness and sensation of prickling and tingling (paresthesia) of the lips and tongue, followed by facial and extremity paresthesias and numbness, headache, sensations of lightness or floating, profuse sweating (diaphoresis), dizziness, salivation (ptyalism), nausea, vomiting (emesis), diarrhea, abdominal (epigastric) pain, difficulty moving (motor dysfunction), weakness (malaise), and speech difficulties.
" TV Guide's review claims, "Anne of Green Gables Fans Are Totally Traumatized By Netflix's Adaptation," and The New Yorker tells us "How Not To Adapt Anne of Green Gables," explaining, "There are joys to be had in "Anne with an E"—the injustices almost always right themselves in the end, with Anne's sobs of relief to follow—but little lightness.
But though these store feature "a feeling of lightness and liveliness," according to Claudine Lostao, Director of Store Design for Starbucks in the Midwest and Mid-America, the fancy wood paneling will probably play second fiddle to this culinary news: These pair of Starbucks stores are currently the only two in the U.S. to serve the coffee chain's take on a sushi burrito.
Paul: The thing that's been the biggest change for us, since we haven't really delved too deeply into positional tracking and all that stuff, has been the quality of the headsets — the quality of the screens, the quality of the optics, the lightness, the cost going down, all these things are really contributing to a more lifelike and more accessible experience.
A third, and probably the least likely to be given the go-ahead any time soon, is for a Peace Park in Washington, D.C. The qualities that distinguish such work from 23494s and '70s Land Art, with which Ms. Denes has sometimes been associated, are the same qualities that mark her drawings: a combination of moral rigor and an uninvasive lightness of touch.
The three sections correspond to the collection's three elements — magic of life, magic of design and magic of reality — and are separated by half-cut pages of tracing paper that not only draws attention but "also symbolize the purity and lightness of Cartier's precious stones and settings," Suzanne Isore, executive editor of Flammarion's Styles and Design division, said in an email.
Lightness infuses this surpassingly tranquil 22017 structure, situated between the districts of wealthy Azabu‑Juban and neon-sodden Roppongi: the main building's heavy, boxlike concrete frame perforated by balconies, fronting rooms shielded by shoji screens; its lobby walled in part with soft Oya stone; its tea lounge poised over a Japanese garden, to which floor-to-ceiling windows offer a view.
"He lets me do what I'm going to do and waits to see what happens, and once he sees where I'm going, if I'm not balancing on my leg or whatever, he just lightly taps me back into place," she said, demonstrating the lightness of his touch by raising one finger and tapping at the air as if pushing a button.
Whee, in the air The balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hands, Learning the ways of lightness, alter to spheres The poem further describes how this juggler keeps these balls aloft, contradicting gravity, and keeps his audience on the edge of their seats as he makes that which should not be true, exist for them — for a little while.
One of the things Phillipson loves about the poet Frank O'Hara — who worked, incidentally, as a curator at MoMA in the 1950s and early 1960s — is the lightness of touch that belies his emotional depth; she likes a phrase of his, that the verbal elements of a poem are there ''to keep the surface of the poem high and dry, not wet, reflective and self-conscious.

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