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Examples of whimsy in a Sentence
The designer's new line showed a touch of whimsy.
a bit of decorative whimsy
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Their sense of whimsy and their ability to realize it in metal and stone has been hard-earned through consistent effort, decade after decade—which isn’t an entirely inaccurate definition of the horological arts.
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
There’s a kind of melancholic whimsy here, and lyrical poetry, which makes this song an appropriate listen for a solar eclipse.
—Maria Sherman, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Injecting traces of whimsy into a historical tragedy is a precarious thing.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
It was filled with light, sometimes set against dark shadows, but always artfully placed, and full of whimsy.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
This is where the whimsy of Wicked Little Letters starts to become slightly too overwhelming, and threatens to tip the tonal balance over.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
There’s a kind of melancholic whimsy here, and lyrical poetry, which makes this song an appropriate listen for a solar eclipse.
—Maria Sherman, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Injecting traces of whimsy into a historical tragedy is a precarious thing.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
It was filled with light, sometimes set against dark shadows, but always artfully placed, and full of whimsy.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
This is where the whimsy of Wicked Little Letters starts to become slightly too overwhelming, and threatens to tip the tonal balance over.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
Jude’s cynical social perceptions and teasing sympathy toward strivers like Angela and her common-man subjects surpass the efforts of all his clueless filmmaking contemporaries, such as Wes Anderson, who packs whimsy into his Roald Dahl anthology only to create solipsistic distraction.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Whimsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whimsy. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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