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
For one thing, circumstantial whimsey is balanced against the pathos of characters trying to take their increasingly weird lives seriously.
From Time Magazine Archive
With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bachelors will doubtless deny this sweet dalliance with a vehement fervour, but it has the matter of fact virtue of being true, and is no whimsey of mine.
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
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