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whimsicality

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








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There’s a screw-it-all whimsicality coursing through the breezy, five-song set, which Thompson describes as sort of a warmup project ahead of a full-length album with heavyweight Seattle producer Jake One due early next year.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2022

Pizzicato strings mirrored the whimsicality of the Sorting Hat sequence, low woodwinds interacted playfully at the hatching of a baby dragon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2016

Mabey puts our obsession down to its whimsicality.

From The Guardian Mar. 8, 2013

Yet the whimsicality of the recording belies songs in which Ms. Apple wars with her lovers and, often, herself.

From New York Times May 30, 2012

My dear young lady," Eversley appealed to me with a charming whimsicality, "whatever you do, don't let them put that into your head; you will indeed need me if you get to thinking that.

From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin

In London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are the newsworthy survivors of a long list of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, utterances, and doings of known people, and, so far as Miscellany is concerned, the whimsicalities and outrages of the unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

To strengthen its hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities.

From Time Magazine Archive

These old gentlemen made an irresistible appeal to his sense of humor, such that he could scarcely have avoided the impulse to write a description of their whimsicalities.

From The Lure of the Camera by Charles S. Olcott

The three small humans who figure in 'The Little Panjandrum's Dodo,' and the ambassador's son of 'The Mandarin's Kite,' are as briefly sketched as the whimsicalities with whom they consort.

From English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books by Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley




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