How To Use Whim In A Sentence
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Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level.
Designer Trash
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After making the sauce, I thought both potatoes and chickpeas sounded good, so on a whim I made a potato with panch phoron side dish -- but next time I would do 2 things differently.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Ask yourself if you would rather have a free press, or a press at the whim of political masters?
Times, Sunday Times
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No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs.
CHAPTER XVI
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My duties seem to change daily at the whim of the boss.
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On a whim, I responded to one of them, asking whether she ever comes into Center City.
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Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest.
Genre Fiction
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Looking out the window, I can see an orange flame of whimsical light skimming the horizon, and hues of blue to grey look down benignly from above.
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This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
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We decided, more or less on a whim, to sail to Morocco.
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As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’
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Yet today, having been unpegged completely from the world monetary system, gold is neither relic nor toilet tile; it is more important than ever, and precisely because the paper value of goods and services is ever-more dependent on the whims of an elite few.
Gold and the Barbarians
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But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too.
That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
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He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
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How could he simply throw in the towel - not with a bang but a whimper - and in such an unseemly way?
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With too much whimsy and not enough wit, it has little to say about celebrity or anything else.
Times, Sunday Times
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Come celebrate with the young artists in attendance as they inject fresh colour, life, scent, spirit, humour and unselfconscious whimsy into our art scene.
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Lastly, there has to be some recognition that the ‘laws of nature’ are unvarying and not subject to the whims and fancies of the gods or of other supernatural entities.
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Expecting cooperation when such can lead to self incrimination on a whim is just as inexplicable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)
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Jessie's wails died down to a whimper and then stopped altogether.
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It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
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Dispatches opened with footage of a young man curled up by his front door, whimpering in pain and despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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A warm and whimsical film.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recorded in 1987 and conceived on a whim, it was a source of irritation to the band themselves.
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But human beings are mortal creatures and subject to the whims of nature.
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Try to take into account reasonable preferences which do not pander too much to their whims.
The Sun
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For this solo, he exhibited untitled watercolors and monotypes with his typically whimsical mixture of abstraction and figuration.
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This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Like its forerunner, the reverse tope is liable to be any depth or width; it depends on the whim of the spade wielders, or perhaps how deeply they had descended towards the bottom of a tequila bottle.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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For those who know Mackenzie primarily as the author of whimsical tartan entertainments such as Whisky Galore, this bitter book comes as something of a revelation.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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This was foreseeable because of the spectacular shift to the right; the post-war consensus ended not with a whimper but with a bang.
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I hear a whimpering sound from upstairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's a snapshot of the featherbrained whims that get us into this mess.
From On High
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It wasn't even the apartment we had our heart set on, it was just one I went to see last Thursday on a whim.
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The church now echoed with whimpering cries as the priest said his final prayers and blessings.
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Stripes, geometric shapes and patterns add whimsy to ordinary rocking chairs.
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This ad for “Once Upon a Time” 1944 urges us to see it, using words like “wonderful”, “whimsical”, the questionably grammatical “chucklesome”, and “Santa Claus.”
Archive 2009-08-01
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You can almost hear the roads whimper.
Times, Sunday Times
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With his inventive sense of flattened, decorative form and composition, he has truly reinvented the still life, but he is also a master of whimsical erotica.
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R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
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Bare tree limbs and branches are drawn against the winter sky, as whimsical as pencil sketches.
Christianity Today
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Later, as he went forth to achieve his goal of becoming Prime Minister by any means necessary, many more would fall victim to his whims.
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The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
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The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy.
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With tiny whines and thin whimperings, with whiffs and whuffs and growly sorts of noises down in his throat, he would try to tell her somewhat of his tale.
CHAPTER XXII
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It's the profound whimsicality that troubles me.
Times, Sunday Times
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As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy.
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Hence it was fitting, last week, that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came to an end not with a bang or even much of a whimper.
Back To The Future
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Clive and Elsa are massively proud of the new male and female they have in their tank, whom they are now encouraging to perform a mating ritual-dance known as imprinting and whom they whimsically name Fred and Ginger.
Splice
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Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cards keep their usual ranks except for the ace which can be either the highest or lowest ranked card in a suit at the whim of the person playing it.
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The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.
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It's visually poetic, whimsical and has a larrikin charm.
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This is a mix of legal anecdotes, poetry readings, excerpts from his work and whimsical stories from his childhood interspersed with music.
Times, Sunday Times
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They bemoaned their domestic trials and, like young bachelors in love, sought to divine the whims of the women in their lives.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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While has been completely subsumed by the with a whimper not a bang bowing out of Belle de Jour.
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Two years on, that row is likely to end with more of a whimper than a bang.
Times, Sunday Times
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He closed his eyes and listened to the Forestmaster's whimsical voice change to a somber, sorrowful tone.
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The female incapable of intellectual purpose, governed by her whims and humours, is a misogynistic cliche not only of the time, but very much of his writings.
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You're feet - ooh, your feet - well, they've been whimpering ever since Southwark.
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Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction.
The Drama
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If garish colours had been in my mindset, then it has my kind of whimsey.
MX42 / Illustration Friday: Frozen
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In the end, the Lisbon summit concluded less with a bang than a whimper.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a story about rootlessness, about impulsive, ostensibly whimsical wandering.
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It's easy to notice that these miscreants are overwhelmingly white, educated, and well-heeled enough to sink enormous expense and labor into realizing a few days of whimsy and weirdness.
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It's absurd to suggest that decisions like these can be taken on a whim by the Home Secretary.
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There are many countries in the world where the unfortunate people living there, are subject to the whims of corrupt dictators who have managed to gain power, usually by force.
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Mice carry lost souls to the Other side, but they also carry them back again, at their mousey whim.
Mice. Do not like!
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Elaka whimpered but kept on trying to get another grip around the Trill's neck.
Antimatter
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Oh, my own Ba, hear _my_ plain speech -- and how this is _not_ an attempt to frighten you out of your dear wish to '_hear_ from me' -- no, indeed -- but a whim, a caprice, -- and now it is out! over, done with!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Her barely there makeup took almost an hour to apply and she’d arranged her hair in an upswept ’do that required forty-five minutes of concentration as she created an off-center part, gathered her hair tightly into place, and then strategically released strands of hair, allowing the tresses to dangle, successfully pulling off the impression of whimsical undoneness that was both capricious and exceedingly sexy.
Pure Paradise
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It could make such a difference to your day when you started with a bang, not a whimper!
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She lay at the bottom of the stairs, whimpering in pain.
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I'm beginning to think such iconic lines are in marble precisely so they won't be bent or made to yield to a scribbler's whim.
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Despite his kindly, sometimes whimsical air, he was a shrewd observer of people.
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With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price.
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What I don't want them to be are 'toys' subject to the whims of their parents, who are lavished like a teensy-weensy but ever-so-cute- dog would be.
Three cheers for Elton, say I
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It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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Despite the warning, the house is whimsical and playful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did you hear a whimper from the unions on behalf of commuters?
The Sun
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And profits were defended by courts, so they were not subject to the larcenous whims of the local sheikh or rajah.
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I feel Dustin would hate the word whimsical to describe anything he's written, but it's given me that sort of delight on a random Tuesday afternoon.
Archive 2008-06-24
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This is not the time to circle the wagons and whimper and cry.
Christianity Today
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She retains the curve to suggest, in combination with her bird-like gaze, a charming whimsicality.
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Faith, and you are _not_ blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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The film certainly succeeds in doing that - but it also taps into Barrie's well-documented yearning for a world in which playfulness and whimsy would always triumph over seriousness and propriety.
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The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism.
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She wrapped her fingers hard around her sister's thin wrists so that Talitha's sleepy moaning turned into a frightened whimpering.
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Deep guttural growls came from the alleyway, as well as fearful whimpering.
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I am a whimsical fellow, as you doubtless remember, and have lately grown, they tell me, rather hippish besides.
The Evil Guest
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All of this inspired me to create a whimsical (but pointed) solution towards the elimination or reduction of these brutal altercations.
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This is the important point about a fortnight in which the subject of selective education has come back with a whimper.
Times, Sunday Times
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I got the impression from Bush's speech he was hinting at Carter, not whimpy Obama. cry, cry, cry ....... enow
Clinton takes on TV pundits at distillery stop in Kentucky
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Old gardening boots, wheelbarrows, and toolboxes can make whimsical substitutes for expensive outdoor containers.
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As the co-founder of legendary graphic design studio Push Pin, he was a prime mover in deflating the pomposity of modernism and ushering in the freer, more whimsical visual styles that defined the ’60s and ’70s.
Book Review: Seymour : Scrubbles.net
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Their whimsical nature, abrupt discontinuities and formal ‘shortcuts’ came across vividly.
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On a whim, she would make pizza with Cantonese sausage, steak with hoisin sauce, and sushi with roast pork.
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This is an issue, which has come up before, but has been inconsistently applied to individuals depending on the personal whims and fancies of Board officials.
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They heard one last ear-piercing shriek and then the sound of the wolf whimpering as though it had been hurt.
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He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his.
CHAPTER XIII
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Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward.
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But April, with its whimsical showers and surprised days of panting heat, unnerves me and awakens animal desires.
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I dreaded to think how much of their lives depended on the whim of this man.
The Crossing-Place
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Malls are fluid constructs, shifting and reshuffling to meet the whims of fashion and the market, but you assume that a few places will stay around forever.
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Thar was al'ays time for him to go huntin '," whimpered grandmother.
The Miller of Old Church
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My duties seem to change daily at the whim of the boss.
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And as for domestic animals, they are total slaves to the whims of others.
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
This week's new singles
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So the animals will soon stop whimpering and licking their sore tails and soon start gambolling about again.
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These ten songs certainly aren't stylistically groundbreaking, or even trendsetting, but they are sophisticated, whimsical and, most of all, earnest.
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Turning to painting in 1907, Feininger began to experiment with formal qualities, namely perspective, while infusing his genre scenes with the same intangible whimsicality evoked in his commercial work dating back to the turn of the century.
Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World
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She began, for the first time in almost a decade, to wear lipstick again, and on a whim she went into a department store just to allow the woman in the perfume aisle to give her a squirt from her atomizer.
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So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit.
Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
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It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced
Round the World
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How can I hide away, the whim of fate.
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Bored and whimsical, he indulges an idle, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach; then he is transfigured by epiphanic agony as the older man falls in love with the younger.
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One who transgresses the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures whimsically acting under the impulse of desire, never attains perfection, neither happiness nor the supreme goal.
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Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.
When Life Depends On Scrabble
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Susan has a whimsical, descriptive and deeply emotive writing style.
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As Colin focused in carefully and panned the camera across the breadth of the stairs, Alice gave a small whimper.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Their whim can make or ruin a reputation.
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To my mind, golf can be categorized as an aristocratic game reserved exclusively for the leisured classes, big shots and whimsical big spenders.
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On a whim I added some maraschino liqueur and a few dashes of orange bitters to the Auchentoshan, stirred the drink over ice, and sampled it.
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Square-jawed, with gleaming gnashers, Knoxville looks as if he might be computer-generated, like he might occasionally whimper: ‘Not the face!’
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After my railing at Dirty Dorries aka Nadine the ex-German BIGOT and TORY MP yesterday Dizzy has found this You Tube gem in his early hours caravan of love, hate and whimsy.
Archive 2007-04-15
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Yeh can 'take Dumbledore!" yelled Hagrid, making Fang the boarhound cower and whimper in his basket.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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When Cocky, balanced on one leg, the other leg in the air as the foot of it held the scruff of Michael's neck, leaned to Michael's ear and wheedled, Michael could only lay down silkily the bristly hair-waves of his neck, and with silly half-idiotic eyes of bliss agree to whatever was Cocky's will or whimsey so delivered.
CHAPTER XI
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Influenced by her mother's sunny disposition and a lifelong love of plants and flora, Christie's passion for painting whimsical flowers captivates both adults and children of all ages.
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The whimsicality may not be to everyone's taste.
Times, Sunday Times
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In another age, this happy flitting, governed only by that week's editorial whim, might have felt insubstantial or indisciplined.
Times, Sunday Times
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To accomplish that, many of the letters said investors 'lack of understanding of the markets and the whims of government leaders had hurt them, rather than fund managers' own misevaluation of the market environment.
Hedge Funds Cast the First Stone
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By surrendering your personal will to the whim of the die you are practicing precisely that self-abnegation prescribed in the scriptures.
THE DICE MAN
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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It was a woman scarcely conscious and whimpering softly as they fastened the rope around her.
Bomber
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But they are one-shot treatments and so are not subject to the whims of patient compliance with complex drug regimes.
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But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice.
THE WAILING WIND
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He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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There is something wildly odd about a film that measures human happiness with the whims of a dog.
Times, Sunday Times
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A touch of whimsy, fantasy or fun.
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Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of sloops defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
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This is usually performed extempore, following the whims of the singer, musician and/or dancer.
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The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims.
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The dog whimpered softly.
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Then he started chittering and whimpering in shock.
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Governors had no security of tenure; they served at the whim of the government in London.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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With his high voice and studly physique, he was all male, yet whimperingly feminine.
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Nor are they simply satirical swipes at the monstrous power of the royal whim.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Rather than rescue the late work, this retrospective ends an iconic American career not with an exuberant yawp, but, sadly, with a whimper.
Height and Depths of Expression
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Within 15 minutes he was whimpering in pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface.
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
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As a long term choral singer I've been subjected to many whims of Latin pronunciation, including one director who insisted at all times on "authentic" pronunciation but had a very dodgy grasp of what that might have entailed.
Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING THE PASSION.
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You'll be splenetic and over-heated and I'll be jocular and whimsical.
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Perhaps it was the queer amphitheatrical effect of this setting that connected up some whimsical train of thought in Maynard's brain.
Uncanny Tales
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Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside.
CHAPTER XXVII
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They were all bush dogs or wild-dogs, and so small was their courage that their thirst and physical pain from cords drawn too tight across veins and arteries, and their dim apprehension of the fate such treatment foreboded, led them to whimper and wail and howl their despair and suffering.
CHAPTER XVI
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She lay at the bottom of the stairs, whimpering in pain.
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I said she couldn't have an ice cream and she started to whimper.
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May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM
The Guardian World News
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She is the virgin-harlot†witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.
Alia and michael | My[confined]Space
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His father dismissed his whimsy with a curt'how many nuclear physicists do you know?
Times, Sunday Times
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It does not require me to bow and scrape and cater to your every idiotic whim.
TREASON KEEP
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Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along.
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At Sabi, for example, 25 kilometers southeast of Moscow, fishermen cast lines from docks along the wooded shore, which are dotted with whimsical sculptures made of birchwood.
Escape From Moscow:
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She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and, on a whim, began to search for them.
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The High Court said while granting maintenance, some formula or yardstick must be adopted and it must not be whimsical or arbitrary.
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A whimsical expression tippled across the girl's face, a mixture of tenderness and mischief.
The Hidden Places
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Come celebrate with the young artists in attendance as they inject fresh colour, life, scent, spirit, humour and unselfconscious whimsy into our art scene.
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This happened a mere seven or eight times a day and Jack was a slave to her whims.
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Clearly buying shares in retailers that cater to the whims of youthful storecard addicts is a strategy that has had its day.
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And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut Bûche de Noël, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures.
Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
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The pendant is a whimsical sterling silver angel wing and next to it is a wire wrapped faceted amethyst briolette.
Kdlb feed
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In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
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Signs to look out for in babies or infants include a high-pitched moaning or whimpering cry, a blank, staring expression and pale, blotchy complexion.
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I don't just go flying around the country on a whim, dammit, I'm a penniless student!
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She whimpered, rivers of tears falling down her face.
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As such, the New York Times has seen fit to wipe its monocle off on its shirt-tail and turn its aging journalistic eye on the city's bicyclists by putting together a whimsical little "field guide:
Down With Gears, or Down With Gears: Figuring Out What to Ride
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After the big bang, the whimper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency.
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Everyone was entirely subject to the whim of the Sultan.
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When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
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Why hasn't evolution programmed human babies to seek parental favor with pleasant sounds and gestures - a nudge, for example, or a hushed whimper?
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It's about time somebody brought some whimsicality to the discipline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is populated by types rather than people, and its whimsical romanticism is of the sort you'd find in a very slim book of pop psychology.
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The women delegates were the first to snap out of the euphoria, when they realised their fate would depend on the whims of the same corrupt and brutal satraps they had long resisted.
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Performing a whimsical mix of popular German chansons and original compositions alongside Cuban rumbas, cheery foxtrots, elegant tangos and covers of modern pop songs, Palast has earned rave reviews and standing ovations in glamorous concert halls across the globe.
UCLA Live Unveils Their 2007-2008 Jazz Series
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It's the big climactic chapter that had her first whimpering, then sniffling, and finally cheering.
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Your link indicates that physical phenomenon can be cited to support the position that preexistence is a rational rather than a whimsical argument.
Biocosm & The Biocentric Universe
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It is a charming collection of beautiful and practical ideas to answer structural needs that are still necessary: pigpens, tool houses, as well as a host of barns designed according to the whim of the owner and the lay of the land.
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Today, you can hear a dog whimpering 50 yards away.
Times, Sunday Times
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And for dessert, the much awaited chocolate chestnut Bûche de Noël, the Yuletide Log, is proudly placed upon the table, a moist genoise cake rolled up, filled and iced with rich buttercream and decorated like a branch or log lying on the forest floor, a playground for elves and whimsical forest creatures.
Jamie Schler: Chocolate Chestnut Charlotte For The Holidays
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He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists.
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But the lesson Ken must learn from this is not to even consider spending so much of the council's money on a whim.
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In short, everything that allegedly stops living constitutionalism from being mere judicial whim is ignored in thesecases.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Under-18 Offender Unconstitutional, When the Crime Is Not Homicide
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What I promote is the idea that more people share my expectations, so fewer people are harmed by government failure, and so we can stop this slide toward increasingly large portions of our lives being subject to the whims, interests, and prejudices of politicians.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Thought For the Day
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There are decorative rods, swags and for the most genteel draperies, and hardware with a touch of whimsy.
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However, I will permit myself -- and more importantly, will beg your indulgence for -- analepses and occasional analogies where my own admittedly subjective views and readings seem to demand them...or at least wish for them in a spirit of whimsical velleity.
Omar Karindu on Bendis’ Daredevil – Some Introductory Remarks | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Patricia Hayes Franklin, who died yesterday in Odessa, Texas, like so many of us first came to Mexico on a whim ... as a college girl in 1953, visiting her sister in Del Rio and crossing into Ciudad Acuña to watch a bull fight.
Model expat, matadora Patricia Hayes, dies at 78
