How To Use litheness In A Sentence
- With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
- Nowhere does she illustrate the spirit of blitheness which is put forth by her name, and only once does she allude to it. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
- He broke surface, was hailed by the others to join in bull-in-the-ring; in which strenuous sport, for the next half hour, he was compelled more than once to marvel at the litheness and agility, as well as strategy, of Paula in her successful efforts at escaping through the ring. CHAPTER XVI
- Equally suited for jazz or blues (and probably other styles as well), her voice has fullness without sacrificing litheness.
- The co-directors/co-writers, Palestinian Scandar Copti and Israeli Yaron Shani, possess a Tarantino-esque blitheness about startling violence, and employ a "Pulp Fiction" approach to narrative-as-mosaic. 'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail
- And the more the Fed flounders during the course of this monetary crisis—in which the value of a dollar has plunged to less than a 1,500th of an ounce of gold—the more glaring is the blitheness of its attitude toward America's foundational law. A Constitution Scholar for the Fed
- A woman, she guessed; the figure wore a muffling cloak, too heavy for the weather, but its loose folds failed to hide a certain litheness of body, or the hip-swaying grace of her walk. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
- His Second World War memoir, Slightly Out Of Focus, reveals a man who wore his bravery like blitheness.
- To serve, one cannot avoid that; but to serve with blitheness, that is the secret. The Silent Isle
- All three productions have fine conductors who match the theatrical vibe the directors have created -- Istvan Kertesz a model of balance and appropriate tempos in "Zauberflöte," Zubin Mehta keeping things moving in "Entführung" but knowing when to let a phrase hang in the air to underscore Strehler's elegant compositions, and a startlingly young-looking Lorin Maazel lending "Figaro" an airy speed and litheness not out-of-keeping with current notions of how this score should go. New DVDs let you savor 1960s Salzburg Festival productions of Mozart operas
