Leavened

The outcome of it all is, the one million communicants and the six millions more or less "leavened" by Christian principle and sentiment. ❋ Atticus Greene (1881)

But in Israel, stores and factories own millions of dollars worth of bread and other so-called "leavened" foods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obama leavened his tougher line on human rights by stating several times that the United States does not fear a stronger China and that Washington has no interest in blocking Beijing's emergence as a superpower - a widespread belief of many Chinese. ❋ John Pomfret (2011)

But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love." ❋ Ron Charles (2010)

That was vintage Mandelbrot: an indomitable will, leavened with some humor, pushing into other people's business. ❋ Richard Hudson (2010)

And while many of them are leavened by what the dust jacket of Birds of America calls the "wit, brio, and verve" manifested in dialogue and by the occasional first-person narrator, the "wit" becomes non-threatingly humorous and essentially ornamental to the "human interest" most reviewers now find central to Lorrie Moore's approach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its collections are instant eye candy if the serious and erudite staff will forgive me, with magic in every imaginable material, leavened by irony and wit. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2011)

Oh, and I almost forgot—all of it is layered and leavened, feathered and filigreed in gruyere cheese. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

Despite its acknowledgment of Julius's guilt, "Final Verdict" is still leavened with arguments that espionage on behalf of a contemporaneous ally wasn't such a big deal. ❋ Michael C. Moynihan (2010)

In the early days, the concentration of political power was leavened by an enthusiasm for economic liberalism, legal reform, and integration with the West. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

And this ambition seems to be the novel's primary motivating force, even if it is leavened with the sort of "nonsense" one expects from both Percival Everett and "Percival Everett." ❋ Unknown (2010)

This woodcutter's progress through a saga full of turns and twists may sometimes try a reader's patience, but Wolf's romantic quest leavened by dark comedy affords a few spectacular views, including his lingering memory of his faithless wife, "burnt on his soul like a shadow on a wall left by an atomic explosion." ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)

They will likely have a strange mix of sentiments: anger at the horrific economic legacy they inherited from New Labour, leavened with anxiety over the intractable problems of the euro zone. ❋ Tim Knox (2012)

But two decades later Joe McGinniss pulled off the same trick with The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro and accomplished it in style, capturing with wide-eyed enthusiasm a town in the grip of a near religious frenzy leavened by scandal, farce and tragedy. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The tragic absurdity in his films is usually leavened by humor -- but in this one I tried to fight against my sense of humor, the film is very austere. ❋ Erica Abeel (2011)

No renewal angst here, thankfully, and whatever tension there is in the storyline tends to be leavened by outlandish escapism like when Andrew McCarthy's bad-guy Adler leaves our heroes to perish by flooding a dry dock, "super-villain" style, only to be, curses, foiled again. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I won't claim that John Irving is a first-rate comic novelist (although the creation of a kind of Dickensian comedy is certainly the best thing he does), but Jensen's objection is less to Irving's comic method per se than to comedy in general, which, if inadequately leavened with "human interest." can only be, apparently, "aesthetically banal." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hey are you [at work] today [Yeah but] I'm [leavening] at 12 ❋ Kim Vandercolk (2017)

im going to [sneak] into your [sisters] room, see if there are any panty leavens to [waft] ❋ David Scroggins (2008)

The uncooked [bread] got sick of walking around [the bakery] with all the other delicious, already-cooked [breads], so he decided to bake like a challah and leaven. ❋ Nicholas D (2004)

Girl 1 - that guy is [rude]. Girl 2 - [yep], he's a [Leaven]. ❋ Johnson Turbin (2022)