- a variation of whimsy.
whimsey
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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
Robert Montgomery's efforts are improved by the exchange of his customary whimsey for a set of sideburns.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Magazine Archive
They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an’ come this ways.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
Desnoyers was accustomed to humor Robert's tirades against his fellow citizens because the man had always humored his whimseys about the incessant rearrangement of his furniture.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
"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 Cabell, James Branch
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 Mackay, Charles
He is too good a sort to go to seed with his confounded whimseys; so I determined to take a different tone with him.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer
"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 Hayens, Herbert
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