How to Use sweetness and light in a Sentence

sweetness and light

noun

• This is not sweetness and light; there’s plenty of hardball.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• Yes, right away the movie dispenses with the sweetness and light and lyricism of the books by Beatrix Potter.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• And it’s by no means all sweetness and light; a necessary strain of sadness wafts through this tale.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
• Then again, was everything sweetness and light with Cousins?
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
• For rural liberals like me, Joe Biden’s win didn’t usher in a new era of sweetness and light.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Raising Corvettes for a living isn't all sweetness and light—just ask the Corvette development group.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
• As the Big Shakeout takes place, not all remote-work innovations will be sweetness and light.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• For rural liberals like me, Joe Biden’s win certainly didn’t usher in a new era of sweetness and light.
  — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• In Japan the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, intends everything to be sweetness and light.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• What sounds like sweetness and light is the result of his six 12-hour-plus days (closed Sunday), which includes overlapping three-day processes to make the croissants.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But the community’s location is not all sweetness and light.
  — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
• Maybe the role of unexpectedly black foods is to disrupt the everyday, to remind us that not everything is sweetness and light.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• And on Friday, Netflix is debuting an all-new K-drama series that seems completely devoid of sweetness and light.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• Gitanjali Mathur’s rather dry soprano, with a narrow, rapid-fire vibrato, lacked Galatea’s essential sweetness and light.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
• Also unwelcome would be the public tongue-lashings Mr Xi might face from an American president who is currently all sweetness and light in his personal expressions towards China’s leader.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• This juxtaposition — sweetness and light versus somewhat terrifying inner mettle — is integral to the female experience documented in Yellowjackets.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024