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How positively whimsical it would be to stand shoulder to shoulder, hovering over sneeze guards, sharing soup ladles to scoop an odd assortment of pudding, three grapes, a heap of rotini pasta, and a drumstick onto a plate.
FAST-FOOD BUFFETS ARE A THING OF THE PAST. SOME DOUBT THEY EVER EVEN EXISTED.MM CARRIGANSEPTEMBER 29, 2020EATER
He then set out to gut and renovate the ground floor to establish an operation every bit as utilitarian as the rest of the office was whimsical.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNE
VdL’s invocation of the Bauhaus might seem a little whimsical at a time when Europe is facing the double whammy of a pandemic and a climate emergency, but it does make quite a bit of sense.
EUROPE’S LEADERS WANT TO CREATE A ‘NEW BAUHAUS’ AS PART OF ITS GREEN DEAL. BUT WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?DAVID MEYERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020FORTUNE
Just around the corner is the more pocket-friendly 99-room MoMo’s, a more whimsical hotel concept that called on the talents behind Sydney’s Akin Atelier for its interior decor.
PRE-PANDEMIC, KUALA LUMPUR’S HOSPITALITY SCENE WAS HEATING UP WITH NEW DESIGN-FORWARD BOUTIQUE HOTELSRACHEL KINGSEPTEMBER 5, 2020FORTUNE
He has emerged as one of Amazon’s highest-profile executives, taking to his Twitter to post whimsical videos like delivery drivers dancing, or to defend the company’s reputation from news stories critical of Amazon’s practices.
AMAZON HAS TAPPED DAVE CLARK AS CHIEF OF ITS RETAIL BUSINESSRACHEL SCHALLOMAUGUST 21, 2020FORTUNE
It was a plain, comfortable place, wainscoted about, with shelves and lockers in the whimsical copy of a vessel's cabin.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL 31, NO 2, JUNE 1908VARIOUS
When Alice Hegan Rice writes a little book, lovers of whimsical fiction rejoice with open rejoicing.
THE HONORABLE PERCIVALALICE HEGAN RICE
He had vainly tried the whimsical experiment of judging of the contents by the sense of touch.
POPPEA OF THE POST-OFFICEMABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT
Be diffident of whimsical or pleasing ideas, which you are rather apt to be readily seduced by.
DANGEROUS CONNECTIONS, V. 1, 2, 3, 4PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
The band was playing selections from Audran's whimsical La Mascotte.
THE LURE OF THE MASKHAROLD MACGRATH

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