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
Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whimsey caused another smile to ripple across her lips.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
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
Her name Michelson, a woman full of whimseys partly hysterical, partly religious; and inflamed with a zealous concern for the ecclesiastical discipline of the Presbyterians.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
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 Moore, T. Sturge
"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
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