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But she’s best known as the artist who was the driving force behind Disneyland staple “It’s a Small World,” still today a gleeful diorama dedicated to childlike whimsies from across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Suggesting skies, towers and imaginary cities, Zabavskiy demonstrates that his visual whimsies have strong foundations.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017

When our debates are no longer resolved by deliberation over reasons, then the whimsies of power will determine the outcome.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

And she in no way, despite her much-expressed gratitude to Donald Davidson, her mentor at Vanderbilt, followed the Agrarians down the path of I’ll Take My Stand and their other neo-Confederate whimsies.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2014

I thought this jest low; not least because it merely confused Olakunde, who understood it not, and he delivered some looks of confusion before I reassured him and bade him to ignore Bono’s whimsies.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson