whimsicality
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Mixing the ironic whimsicality of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” with the premise and structure of “The Monkees,” “Conchords” was twice as delightful when it landed for being so unexpected and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
It’s the difference between a real bookstore and one that smells like potpourri, and between wit and whimsicality.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2021
Mabey puts our obsession down to its whimsicality.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
The intruder in the story is really Death, which trumps all his conversational whimsicality.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
Then he subsided into silence, whistling meditatively, as if pondering over the whimsicality he had just propounded, or contemplating a fresh one.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
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
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
These were more delightful and satisfying than the kind of humour that preceded them—they seemed better than the whimsicalities of Artemus Ward, and not to be compared to the laboured humour of Mrs. Partington.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan
If, on the other hand, you have committed a real wrong to another, there may be many laws on the statute book, many precedents, and technicalities, and whimsicalities, through which you may hope to escape.
From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Lysander Spooner
