whimsy
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Readers who might be unaware of this facility should imagine an amusement park minus the fun and whimsy.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Chanel's artistic director Matthieu Blazy leant into the world of whimsy and fantasy with his haute couture collection.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In subsequent shows like “Hooray For What,” “Finian’s Rainbow” and “Flahooley,” he would provide astute political commentary, offsetting issues of race and bigotry with whimsy and fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I wish I could be enthusiastic, but “Eat Me” is a relentlessly quirky work that gorges on its own dark whimsy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
As though, with gifts and whimsy, she might soften the blow of her news.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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But she’s best known as the artist who was the driving force behind Disneyland staple “It’s a Small World,” still today a gleeful diorama dedicated to childlike whimsies from across the globe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
When our debates are no longer resolved by deliberation over reasons, then the whimsies of power will determine the outcome.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
Without trying, I frequently stepped on his footprints and tripped over his whimsies.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2017
And she in no way, despite her much-expressed gratitude to Donald Davidson, her mentor at Vanderbilt, followed the Agrarians down the path of I’ll Take My Stand and their other neo-Confederate whimsies.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014
I thought this jest low; not least because it merely confused Olakunde, who understood it not, and he delivered some looks of confusion before I reassured him and bade him to ignore Bono’s whimsies.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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