Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade - Extremely light-minded, and yet very affected - Indignantly naïve, nevertheless very blasé next » ❋ Unknown (2009)
At the same time there is something about Thesiger's attitude to his travels that makes C.M. Doughty, T.E. Lawrence and his other distinguished predecessors seem the most whimsical and light-minded of men. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)
I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She, who had served Margaret of Anjou, how could she bow the knee to her light-minded daughter? ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)
With 7 billion people, we're in a very tight space, not one that can be escaped by light-minded fantasies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While the Holy Father was in great earnestness and charity addressing the Catholic world by his Cardinal Minister, there were circles of light-minded men in his city who were laying bets with each other whether the Syllabus would "make a row in Europe" or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But a haven is wherever light-minded people get together. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Like every true colonel of the Empire he saw in this correspondence, rapidly read, only the young girl who had thrown herself at the head of a poet; but in the letters which we were forced to lack of space to suppress, a better judge would have admired the dignified and gracious reserve which Modeste had substituted for the rather aggressive and light-minded tone of her first letters. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The theatres and cafes were open as usual, and the masked balls attended with great enthusiasm: confiding in their hundred and twenty-four forts, the light-minded people had nothing to fear. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But the race of birds was created out of innocent light-minded men, who, although their minds were directed toward heaven, imagined, in their simplicity, that the clearest demonstration of the things above was to be obtained by sight; these were remodelled and transformed into birds, and they grew feathers instead of hair. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The race of birds was created out of innocent, light-minded men, who thought to pursue the study of the heavens by sight; these were transformed into birds, and grew feathers instead of hair. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The light-minded people, on the contrary, were rather weary than otherwise of his sway. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Mrs. Pendennis saw Blanche light-minded and frivolous, detected many wants in her which offended the pure and pious-minded lady; a want of reverence for her parents, and for things more sacred, Helen thought: worldliness and selfishness couched under pretty words and tender expressions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘The Princess is light-minded,’ he said; ‘she was brought up at a frivolous Court; but her folly goes not beyond coquetry: crime is impossible; she has her birth, and my name, and her children, to defend her.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
To do her justice, she behaved with tolerable kindness at this season of trouble; for whenever I wanted money I had to coax her, and whenever I coaxed her I was sure of bringing this weak and light-minded woman to good-humour: who was of such a weak terrified nature, that to secure an easy week with me she would sign away a thousand a year. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The girl was as light-minded as an air spirit, Rhoslyn said, and as promiscuous as a nymph. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
If the more light-minded tourist shirks this act of piety, he makes a mistake which he will repent afterward in vain. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nay, if a joke were uttered in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
