whimsicality
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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
Her gracious, willful whimsicality allows her to keep moving as if life were a lovely, lovely, dream even when all the evidence screams that the opposite is true.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2013
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
The scene that confronted me when I entered the inn parlour would not by any means have been devoid of a certain whimsicality had it not had so sinister a bearing on our fortunes.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
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.
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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.
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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.
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The revolt against nature frequently causes whimsicalities; a terrible injustice toward those doleful creatures who often have asked no better than to obey nature's laws in becoming wives and mothers.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
Gould, the unextenuating likenesses of “Ape,” and “Spy,” and “Max,” the 333 subtle conceits of Mr Linley Sambourne, the whimsicalities of Mr E.T.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various