There is a traditional locus associating visual colour, semitones, beauty (softness, sweetness) and inbetweenness with the chromatic melodic genus and the chromatic tetrachord.
A century or two served to change this type into the ideal one with which we are familiar - the type where all force is lost in mere sweetness and softness.
The notion that all will be sweetness and light defies human nature and all political experience.
We were told that everything was sweetness and light, that there was tolerance and understanding.
No; we are all sweetness and light this evening.
He has spoken very feelingly of the love of these parents for their children, of the actual sweetness of the nature of these children themselves.
I should like to think that from now on everyone will behave with sweetness and light along the lines suggested in the draft codes.
I would never suggest that they are all sweetness and light, but they are certainly often characterised by love and strong concepts of duty.
