1.   The sun was streaming in the window, but it did nothing to lighten his mood.

2.   The weather did little to lighten their mood.

3.   The sun was streaming in through the window, yet it did nothing to lighten his mood.

4.   Though ostensibly a drama, the play is filled with zingy little nifties that lighten the mood.

5.   After Jerry Jones summed up the avalanche of problems facing the Dallas Cowboys, one reporter lightened the mood with an interesting proposal.

6.   But none of these developments appear to have much lightened the mood on either side of a standoff that one ally of Clinton on Wednesday compared to trench warfare.

7.   Dennis Franz, who plays a fallen angel, lightens the mood considerably when discussing a scene that required him to swim in the nude.

8.   He tried to lighten the mood with a self-deprecating comment.

9.   He was trying to lighten the mood.

10.   He said later that he thought it was worth making a little fun of himself and even the president in an effort to lighten the mood on the trip.