How to Use sweetness and light in a Sentence

sweetness and light

noun
  • Doubtless, that will be sweetness and light, too.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The new linkage makes the drag strip all sweetness and light instead of the prelude to a visit to the chiropractor.
    — Larry Griffin, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Although people have harvested its honey and wax—sweetness and light—for thousands of years, the honeybee has not been tamed.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Will this sweetness and light continue throughout his forthcoming Dahl shorts, or will Anderson complicate the matter further?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2023
  • 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

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