How To Use Whimsy In A Sentence
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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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With too much whimsy and not enough wit, it has little to say about celebrity or anything else.
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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 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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Stripes, geometric shapes and patterns add whimsy to ordinary rocking chairs.
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The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy.
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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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Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy.
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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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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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Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward.
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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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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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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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A touch of whimsy, fantasy or fun.
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His father dismissed his whimsy with a curt'how many nuclear physicists do you know?
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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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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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There are decorative rods, swags and for the most genteel draperies, and hardware with a touch of whimsy.
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Those that knew Levis as a friend, colleague, or teacher sometimes found it puzzling to try to reconcile the good humor, whimsy, and carelessness of the man with the artfulness, erudition, cunning, and darkness of his poetry.
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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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When Daniel returns, hr is worried about his grandpa dying, but instead he finds his grandparents happy; their catalyst Mara; but even she with her whimsy upbeat demeanor fears she will never reach the soul of the stoic sad fisherman.
Church of the Dog-Kaya McLaren « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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An item that would have appealed to his sense of whimsy is a bronze figure of a crouching fat man.
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And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them.
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
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In all those instances, the campaigns adopt an approach that could be described as antic whimsy, offering over-the-top statements that are delivered with a straight face - and tongue planted firmly in cheek.
NYT > Home Page
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With the help of a punk sidekick scene stealer Ksenia Solo, Bo forges her own path, trying to keep her lethal desires under control, and the action and whimsy help compensate for an overall flatness in the rest of the ensemble casting and low-budget production.
Monday TV in Review: Alcatraz, Lost Girl, Being Human and More
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There's nothing I despise more than whimsy, in any shape or form.
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It was my usual mixture of whimsy and wariness.
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But whimsy is not exactly a postmodern mode, and in Chronic City it betrays a certain aesthetic timidity.
The Reading Experience
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A smattering of tracks say so, exhibiting a tasty balance between Of Montreal's lyrical world of mystery-flavor-popsicle whimsy and shower singalong ditties.
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I've beta-tested this at various points and at each time I've been struck by Ludicorp's amazing combination of utilitarian, usable interface aesthetic and genuinely witty whimsy.
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What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects.
Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object
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The trio brings appropriate whimsy to Gorey's playfully macabre material, an accordion main soundtrack to besotted mothers and weeping chandeliers.
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Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
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Bill Czolgosz alters, edits, expurgates, massacres and abridges the original Twain narrative with gusto; and delivers up a whimsyladen trek through the rotting heart of the Zombie Apocalypse.
The War of The Worlds
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That floaty, English whimsy look?
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whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
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Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy.
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In a lesser writer such use of anecdote could give way to whimsy, presenting quirky characters as allegory, tailoring encounters to fit a preconceived moral philosophy.
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Victor Allen Crawford III, perhaps better known as the erudite Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy, lives his life in miniature. by Brian James Kirk
The Clog
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If you haven't, welcome to an enchanting new world of whimsy and witchcraft.
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The Avengers, by comparison, was a wonky, low-budget piece of whimsy distinguished by Diana Rigg in tight leathers and the kind of sexual innuendo you only needed in an era of tighter censorship.
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Though her subject matter is grim, Turke approaches it with whimsy and much humour.
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It was film noir one week, sentimental whimsy the next, sharp pathos the next, cheesecake the week after that.
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In my own work, I'm not satisfied unless the whimsy is balanced with horror and vice versa.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
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Curious George was apparently just a small part of a more elaborate world of whimsy.
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But this piece of crime whimsy is all about the wacky hats and the cutesy romantic subplot.
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That blend of art and whimsy epitomizes both Frank and his hometown.
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An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy.
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But with a little purple paint and a heavy dose of whimsy, the Paper Moon had vanquished the ptomaine ghosts of the previous regime.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy.
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All her drawings have a touch of whimsy.
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Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy.
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Her voice is ghostly sweet, saved from sickliness by guttural Björk-ish quirks; backed up by electropop whimsy and twinkly piano, it is supremely suited to the sentiment.
Ellie Goulding's summer of love
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I think the conference organizers decided on some whimsy that at the end of the day, when everybody else is blissed out, there should be a representative of the old media.
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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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How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity.
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Those pustulent reminders of urban squalor do so upset my pretty notions of English whimsy and folderol.
Prince Picks | clusterflock
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It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
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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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Its strong points are undermined by cloying sentimentality and whimsy.
Times, Sunday Times
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These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
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One area where no buy signal is being triggered is in municipal bonds; a factor of investors continuing to panic out of them on the word of soothsaying whimsy and in light of heated headlines noting the possibility of municipal insolvencies exacerbated by underfunded pension liabilities.
MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
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Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
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None of the inherent whimsy is lost and the film remains an incredibly moving but suitably light piece.
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It's a simple love song for a beautiful creature, but then out of whimsy, suddenly there's a Dixie band in it.
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The cryptic whimsy with which this idea is introduced cannot conceal its improbability.
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The complete bastardization of this artifact's transcription combined with agrammatical flights of interpretative whimsy are not becoming of someone flaunting a doctorate.
Religion in Ancient Etruria: A comedy of errors that keeps on giving
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That floaty, English whimsy look?
Times, Sunday Times
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Personally I've always considered mime to be a lot of whimsy.
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These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
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So much for the duller secularism's nonsense about irrationalism and whimsy.
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How much floral whimsy does anyone need in her wardrobe?
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There's a fancifulness and whimsy to the way she draws the human figure.
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An item that would have appealed to his sense of whimsy is a bronze figure of a crouching fat man.
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The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots.
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An item that would have appealed to his sense of whimsy is a bronze figure of a crouching fat man.
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Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap-ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies?
Peveril of the Peak
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Sandler's a ridiculous romantic lead, but when the tone of the film matches his awkward effort with pure whimsy, it's light fun.
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How did innocent whimsy turn into game of Russian roulette?
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My sense of whimsy is too powerful to write dark novels book after book.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » February » 18
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The writing is full of originality and charm - although cynics might object to a shade too much whimsy.
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Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives.
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Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap - ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies?
Peveril of the Peak
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In my opinion the eyes are almost the most important part of the toy, giving it so much personality - humour, whimsy, cuteness, scariness and so on.
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Frostian solitaries love to challenge fate and to assert their hard-won visionary power while deprecating their epiphanic achievement with comic whimsy.
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But at least the original series had vigor, whimsy, and raw emotion, not just bloodless ethical commitments and busty telepaths.
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he had a whimsy about flying to the moon
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With too much whimsy and not enough wit, it has little to say about celebrity or anything else.
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What he's looking for in a bona fide getaway place is fun, informality, joy, whimsy, self-expression, magnificent land, views and an opportunity for magical experiences.
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And while the choreography is not oblivious to these cultural influences, make no mistake that this is still clearly the work of Bausch as they flow back and forth between performers as one leaves off and another picks up a chain of convoluted and nonsensical narrative whimsy.
Archive 2008-12-01
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How did innocent whimsy turn into game of Russian roulette?
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I must confess, I'm guilty of the same foolish whimsy.
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If you haven't, welcome to an enchanting new world of whimsy and witchcraft.
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This isn't to claim our deepest convictions guide us only so far as the whimsy of the moment will allow.
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Using just the rudiments of clothing, namely a scrap of fabric and a bit of thread, Berriolo conjured not the costume that covers the figure, but the figure itself, with playfulness and whimsy, but also with a sense of quest and discovery.
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Stunning blend of folk whimsy and atmospheric electro.
The Sun
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But with a little purple paint and a heavy dose of whimsy, the Paper Moon had vanquished the ptomaine ghosts of the previous regime.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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Beach-related motifs are very popular and I've seen them everywhere this year, but what sets Jessica's items apart from the fad is her amazing craftsmanship and wonderful whimsy associated with each piece.
July 2007
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There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land.
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Needless to say we like this ad, it strikes the right balance of whimsy and preachy, which is to say more of the former and less of the latter.
Jalopnik
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An appetite for the educated whimsy of a panel game at teatime can easily be sated by 11pm and it is certainly not likely to have returned by breakfast.
Radio 4: The BBC won't hurt your beloved station | Vanessa Thorpe
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Materials needed to assemble your terrarium include gravel for drainage; sphagnum moss to keep the soil from sifting into the drainage area; potting mix without fertilizer; and accessories like gravel, miniature animals — whatever items that add a touch of whimsy to your terrarium.
Terrarium Day at Sugar Creek « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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The Wyoming refuseniks adapt themselves to these straitened circumstances with a mixture of stoicism, masochism and whimsy, and Proulx follows suit, particularly enjoying fantastical moments.
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Although it introduces a host of mind-bending economic theories, the movement for sustainable economies includes more than a little whimsy.
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The silhouettes are classic, and the whimsy and personality come through the texture and color of the covering material from guava shagreen, miniature sequins and grey flannel, says the American-born designer, who previously held posts at Ralph Lauren and Old Navy.
Blue Carreon: A Conversation With Handbag Designer Fiona Kotur
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Oddly, it isn't included on this debut album though its good-natured whimsy would have chimed well with these songs.
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Far too many of the stories are throw-aways (the second half of "Far Out," for example, consists of a series of overly cute exercises in whimsy that are, frankly, not worth the bother), and the order Updike has given them doesn't particularly do them credit or force us to consider him as a writer of short fiction in any new and more illuminating light.
Updike, John
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At the whimsy of the jail administration, months of hard work sealing the cracks with toothpaste were rendered redundant.
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It is the very definition of a “race to the bottom,” at what I call a whimsy economy.
A Chink In Android’s Armor
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Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself.
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Like any good curator, of course, he digresses, pausing to impart a bit of gossip or whimsy, spicing the historically significant with the genuinely weird.
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Perhaps it will not drown me in whimsy upon a second viewing.
GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 12.
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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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Fate and fortune, both good and ill, are sown by the whimsy of God.
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The writing is full of originality and charm - although cynics might object to a shade too much whimsy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was wondering whether the vulnerable human capacities for joy, whimsy, and humour have been clamped down upon by the collective unconscious.
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I noticed that Paul Johnson has dropped the whimsy and got stuck in to some serious vitriol throwing.
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It is visually sumptuous and I found its peculiar whimsy and eccentricity never less than thrilling.
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Moominpapa's Memoirs isn't what I'd define as kawaii, as like Moominvalley in November or Moominpapa at Sea there's a certain darkness lurking in the back of the usual moomin whimsy.
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Do not allow yourself any capricious acts of whimsy, be precise and calculated, erring (if you must) on the side of mercy and the greater good.
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His is a cinema of whimsy in the most literal sense of the word, and from his impulsive choices ultimately emerges the playfulness the word typically connotes.
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Boyle's approach to the material is equally dynamic, but the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce veers uncomfortably between maudlin fantasy, comic whimsy and outright melodrama.
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Mark's paintings instantly trigger a warped deja vu. His work recalls a parallel universe of 1950s Golden Books and the whimsy of Lewis Carroll.
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Stunning blend of folk whimsy and atmospheric electro.
The Sun
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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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Nothing can be called a sport that depends on the whimsy of ‘artistic impression’ and the opinions of nine judges.
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A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting.
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There'll be prancing in the streets – and a touch of Wicker Man whimsy – as Banbury's annual procession sees fine ladies and four-legged brutes resurrecting the famous Ride A Cock-Horse nursery rhyme.
This week's new events
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Place to buy meaningless whimsy if you have nothing else to do with your dough: Small Crafts Advisory, 9803 Third Ave., Stone Harbor.
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If you haven't, welcome to an enchanting new world of whimsy and witchcraft.
Times, Sunday Times
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When did brands start positioning themselves as families, communities, their offices big picnic blankets of giggling executives, their products carved from whimsy and solid, waxen love?
When familiarity breeds contempt
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It was my usual mixture of whimsy and wariness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's difficult in the space of just 125 words to summon whimsy, erudition, truth and humour, while at the same time getting under the skin of your reader, but Williams manages it there.
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How much floral whimsy does anyone need in her wardrobe?
Times, Sunday Times
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How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity.
