whimsicality
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Detailed embroideries, although masterfully crafted, occasionally strayed into whimsicality.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Lloyd, who described “Jerome” as abstract and layered, said he hoped audiences would see the seriousness and whimsicality.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
And there is perhaps a little too much whimsicality in the score, which needlessly doubles down on the whimsy already on screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2015
Mabey puts our obsession down to its whimsicality.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
Grey-bearded and high-nosed, it conveyed the impression of chronic whimsicality, especially just now, puckered with the chuckle which was convulsing its owner.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
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
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
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
And yet are there not lacking signs that the quaint pot-pourri of whimsicalities will one day coalesce into a well-defined, artistic composition, a twentieth century City Beautiful.
From The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 by Alfred Henry Lewis
If, on the other hand, you have committed a real wrong to another, there may be many laws on the statute book, many precedents, and technicalities, and whimsicalities, through which you may hope to escape.
From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Lysander Spooner
