- a variation of whimsy.
whimsey
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whimseys
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Also, if you haven’t yet seen the 2016 film “Alice: Through the Looking Glass,” you can cap off the summer with a bit of Wonderland whimsey.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2020
As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
From Time ● Sep. 17, 2013
Sample whimsey: Q. ''What goes quack-quack and lays an egg?''
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither Ketti Frings's Mr. Sycamore nor Philip Barry's Without Love would probably have rated a bid to the exciting birthday parties of the Guild's youth, when whimsey and small talk were freezingly snubbed.
From Time Magazine Archive
If your whimsey, Charlotte, added she, arises from modesty, you reflect upon your sister; and, what is worse, upon your mother.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
Though transported himself with the most frantic whimseys, Cromwell had adopted a scheme for regulating this principle in others, which was sagacious and political.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
"You speak without hesitation, and it is through your ability to settle such whimseys out of hand that you will yet win, it may be, to success."
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
"Of body, I grant you; and when his mind becomes clearer, these whimseys will vanish like ghosts at cock-crow."
From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens
These are the whimseys of the mass - the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
But, caprices and whimseys being ascribed to a goddess, it will be natural to expect them in her worshipper; and Mr. Whistler revealed the limitations of his genius by whimseys and caprice.
From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
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