Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.
I'm disturbed by some of the levity I've heard surrounding this case. What we're talking about here is a severe case of domestic violence, and it's time we started taking this issue more seriously.
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
We were trying to have a little bit of levity with the concept--helping people deal with crises that come up.
Hopefully, it won't ruin a friendship. Obviously, he's in hated Dodger blue. I'm sure he'll be having a lot of pasta dinners with Tommy (Lasorda). Levity aside, it is an interesting flip of fate. You guys know how close we are personally, how hard we worked professionally.
A land of levity is a land of guilt.