whimsicality

Kéré’s projects are not only utilitarian; they can also have a whimsicality and a serenity.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2022

Michetti’s production, incorporating Sara Ryung Clement’s abstract set design of metal scaffolding, projects onto the harsh narrative backdrop a Mary Zimmerman-esque whimsicality.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2016

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

My dear young lady," Eversley appealed to me with a charming whimsicality, "whatever you do, don't let them put that into your head; you will indeed need me if you get to thinking that.

From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin

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

He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance.

From The Road by Jack London

He was fond of literary whimsicalities, and wrote a humorous "History," referring mostly to the events of the times.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange