light-minded

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Drawn to Harsh Places

• “Disagreeable neighbor, excellent comrade - Extremely light-minded, and yet very affected - Indignantly naïve, nevertheless very blasé next »”

  Excerpt: Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

• “With 7 billion people, we're in a very tight space, not one that can be escaped by light-minded fantasies.”

  Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill?

• “She, who had served Margaret of Anjou, how could she bow the knee to her light-minded daughter?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Red Queen

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “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.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “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.”

  Modeste Mignon

• “But a haven is wherever light-minded people get together.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007

• “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.”

  Timaeus

• “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.”

  Timaeus

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