whimsical
Example Sentences
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Crump is responsible, for instance, for the whimsical facade of It’s a Small World.
From Los Angeles Times
In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times
A good story requires characters, and Mr. Kukushkin personifies atoms, chemicals, even entire biological kingdoms, using whimsical drama to illustrate fundamental principles of biochemistry.
In conferences to decide cases, they’d sometimes pass around whimsical props like a clothespin to signal members to “hold their noses” and vote unanimously to project institutional solidarity.
From Salon
Though the scene seems like something out of a movie, it is in fact a whimsical sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
