sweetness and light

Sorrow and disillusionment racked William Mulliner like a physical pain. That his friends inside there, in spite of the fact that he had been all sweetness and light and had not done a thing to them, should have thrown him out into the hard street was the saddest thing he had ever heard of; and for some minutes he sat there, weeping silently.

1927 April 9, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Story of William”, in Meet Mr. Mulliner, London: Herbert Jenkins […], published 27 September 1927, →OCLC, page 186

The working relationship between Amtrak and the contracting railroads, and the Government for that matter, is not, and has never been all sweetness and light, and many railroads still find the passenger train to be a hindrance to the beloved freight.

1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 164

So it transpired, though not everything at Garmisch was sweetness and light. The leader of the British team, Arnold Lunn, the "father of alpine ski racing" and a British public school amateur to the core, was a conservative Catholic who disliked the "professionalism" of National Socialist sport.

2003, Richard Holt, “Great Britain: The Amateur Tradition”, in Arnd Krüger, William [J.] Murray, editors, The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 76

Mailing lists are not all sweetness and light, though. Joining a mailing list is a little complex. It requires people to know how to join, sign up with an email address, respond to the mail, and know where to send messages.

2009 August, Jono Bacon, “Communicating Clearly”, in Andy Oram, Simon St. Laurent, editors, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 72