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whimsicality

[hwim-zi-kal-i-tee, wim-] / ˌʰwɪm zɪˈkæl ɪ ti, ˌwɪm- /








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It’s the difference between a real bookstore and one that smells like potpourri, and between wit and whimsicality.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2021

Michetti’s production, incorporating Sara Ryung Clement’s abstract set design of metal scaffolding, projects onto the harsh narrative backdrop a Mary Zimmerman-esque whimsicality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2016

A certain whimsicality is more than offset by that striking image of the clouds as "hunchèd camels".

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

The intruder in the story is really Death, which trumps all his conversational whimsicality.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2012

Ruggedness and tenderness, corruption and sweetness, whimsicality and decision, are magically mingled there in dignified depth, with the most refined feeling—the most ductile language of the brush that is known to me.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther