| There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land. |
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| Do not allow yourself any capricious acts of whimsy, be precise and calculated, erring on the side of mercy and the greater good. |
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| Though her subject matter is grim, Turke approaches it with whimsy and much humour. |
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| A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting. |
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| This isn't to claim our deepest convictions guide us only so far as the whimsy of the moment will allow. |
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| At the whimsy of the jail administration, months of hard work sealing the cracks with toothpaste were rendered redundant. |
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| Stripes, geometric shapes and patterns add whimsy to ordinary rocking chairs. |
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| I noticed that Paul Johnson has dropped the whimsy and got stuck in to some serious vitriol throwing. |
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| How nice for him that he can play note perfectly, even if it is at the expense of fantasy, passion, ardor, elegance, whimsy, fire and intensity. |
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| Although it introduces a host of mind-bending economic theories, the movement for sustainable economies includes more than a little whimsy. |
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| Oddly, it isn't included on this debut album though its good-natured whimsy would have chimed well with these songs. |
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| So much for the duller secularism's nonsense about irrationalism and whimsy. |
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| I like the form, enjoy its quirkiness and whimsy, and continue to read critically about it and write my own prose poems. |
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| It is visually sumptuous and I found its peculiar whimsy and eccentricity never less than thrilling. |
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| None of the inherent whimsy is lost and the film remains an incredibly moving but suitably light piece. |
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| The cryptic whimsy with which this idea is introduced cannot conceal its improbability. |
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| It's a simple love song for a beautiful creature, but then out of whimsy, suddenly there's a Dixie band in it. |
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| There are decorative rods, swags and for the most genteel draperies, and hardware with a touch of whimsy. |
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| Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself. |
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| An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy. |
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| I was wondering whether the vulnerable human capacities for joy, whimsy, and humour have been clamped down upon by the collective unconscious. |
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| Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy. |
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| Sandler's a ridiculous romantic lead, but when the tone of the film matches his awkward effort with pure whimsy, it's light fun. |
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| Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward. |
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| As if historical fact weren't enough, Jones also shows a fondness for, and in fact a deft hand with, fanciful flights of whimsy. |
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| The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism. |
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| It was film noir one week, sentimental whimsy the next, sharp pathos the next, cheesecake the week after that. |
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| The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy. |
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| There's a fancifulness and whimsy to the way she draws the human figure. |
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| Like any good curator, of course, he digresses, pausing to impart a bit of gossip or whimsy, spicing the historically significant with the genuinely weird. |
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| An assured and engaging ham, Cunningham is the perfect guide, deftly capturing Provincetown's Dionysian delights and Apollonian beauty with wit, whimsy, and lyricism. |
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| These status symbols of royal personages, in shaded wool or silk and metal thread, have whimsy and wit. |
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| Frankenweenie was viewed by some as one dose too many of Tim Burton's goth whimsy with a copout ending. |
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| In Washington, a town known for bloviation rather than whimsy or wit, the wacky season is just about to begin. |
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| What's more, the depiction of childhood is thin and conventional: Simon is devoid of depth and whimsy, a mere script appurtenance. |
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| That blend of art and whimsy epitomizes both Frank and his hometown. |
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| Come celebrate with the young artists in attendance as they inject fresh colour, life, scent, spirit, humour and unselfconscious whimsy into our art scene. |
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| The trio brings appropriate whimsy to Gorey's playfully macabre material, an accordion main soundtrack to besotted mothers and weeping chandeliers. |
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| There's nothing I despise more than whimsy, in any shape or form. |
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| What he's looking for in a bona fide getaway place is fun, informality, joy, whimsy, self-expression, magnificent land, views and an opportunity for magical experiences. |
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| Fate and fortune, both good and ill, are sown by the whimsy of God. |
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| He finds an ideal balance of whimsy and weightiness in this wise and humane comedy. |
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| This playful print of man's best friend by Salvatore Ferragamo is a great way to add whimsy to your wardrobe. |
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| Such stylistic whimsy hardly seems appropriate to the solemn themes of apocalyptic war and nuclear disaster which consequently lose much of their weight and urgency. |
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| On the surface, these could just as easily be a child's whimsy, but genuine hallucinations have a very different flavour. |
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| These hand-printed tea towels are sure to add a touch of whimsy to even the most contemporary kitchen. |
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| Colourful, practical, durable and handmade, these cushion covers will add a touch of whimsy and a blast of colour to any decor. |
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| Indulging in her whims and whimsy, she dresses like her favorite dolls in sweet and shiny, pretty things. |
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| Blending silence and whimsy, dense colour and furtive nuance, his work eloquently demonstrates life's inherent contradictions. |
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| This classical ballet will no doubt thrill audiences everywhere with its romantic spectacle, fairy-tale whimsy, and accomplished dance technique. |
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| They expressed themselves by injecting whimsy or creativity into practical things. |
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| The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots. |
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| Most people will see this film as a harmless piece of escapist whimsy, replete with cute ragamuffins, a performing dog, and old steam locomotives. |
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| Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop. |
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| Sure, focussing on wellbeing over whimsy is okay sometimes, but it can't be our only option in a market with so much scope. |
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| His is a cinema of whimsy in the most literal sense of the word, and from his impulsive choices ultimately emerges the playfulness the word typically connotes. |
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| These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness. |
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| I think the conference organizers decided on some whimsy that at the end of the day, when everybody else is blissed out, there should be a representative of the old media. |
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| A smattering of tracks say so, exhibiting a tasty balance between Of Montreal's lyrical world of mystery-flavor-popsicle whimsy and shower singalong ditties. |
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| But instead of focusing purely on the color and whimsy of blossoms, Simons looked at their structure. |
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| The island is a complex arrangement of hundreds of micro-climates famous for their whimsy. |
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| Frostian solitaries love to challenge fate and to assert their hard-won visionary power while deprecating their epiphanic achievement with comic whimsy. |
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| Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy. |
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| Here in his last Scherzo, he intersperses a flighty Mendelssohnian whimsy with Chopin's own inimitable cascading figurations, and adds only an occasional touch of his more typical melancholy. |
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| She looks full of whimsy, yet she is a grafter. |
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| Delpy is not one to muck up whimsy and nuance with a tight string tie. |
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| But it had the disgraced designer's signature romance and whimsy. |
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| Fueling the intrigue was my self-gratifying read on the tweaky sitch: that we had a meth addiction on our hands, a whimsy confirmed by legitimate newsbreakers the National Enquirer. |
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| Mostly, the group stay just the right side of oversweet whimsy, apart from 'Shark Song', when Mercer blithely suggests hiding in a shell should said predator approach. |
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| Gifted with talent and fantasy, and having unflagging ambition, she soon conquered Paris and the world with her refined gossamery outfits, which were a revolution in the whimsy realm of fashion. |
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| Fans of the epic tale will have the opportunity to experience the whimsy of flight and the intensity of battle right from their very own D-BOX Motion System. |
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| Share the humour, joy and whimsy of this renowned artist. Michel Paradis introduces this master to new generations, and keeps Charles Trenet's memory alive for those who knew him. |
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| And saturated hair is a sign of renewed adventurousness and whimsy. |
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| Freshness, whimsy and sensuality chase each other merrily about. |
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| Chic, danceable pop with a spark of whimsy. |
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| Not perhaps the usual ingredients for export success, but whimsy artwork for licensing has proved to be exactly the right recipe for New Brunswick-based PQ Expressions. |
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| Or, perhaps, for chemistry buffs willing to take their valence electrons with a touch of whimsy. |
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| Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy. |
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| For its 3rd edition, the OFF of Deauville maintains and confirms that creativity, imagination, whimsy, and humor result from a state of mind rather than from a generation. |
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| With her stylist and muse credentials, Valentine does have a touch more whimsy to her look than yer average head-to-toe-in-black French chicists but she adheres to the core principle that less is ultimately more. |
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| The whimsy of the British performance at the Olympic handover, featuring twirling umbrellas and a doubledecker bus, suggested that Britain would not attempt to match the pageantry and stadiums that cost China billions. |
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| There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism. |
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| Before the press show for this piece of pop history whimsy, the film's distributors wheeled out a bespangled Elvis impersonator, but sadly failed to enlist a concomitant Nixon tribute act. |
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| Laneea's artwork brings to life the whimsy and thought-provoking images in her mind,'' said JoAnne Smith, visual arts coordinator for the playhouse. |
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