whimsicality
IPA: hwˈɪmzɪkˈæɫʌti
noun
- (uncountable) the state of being whimsical.
- (countable) something whimsical; a caprice.
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Examples of "whimsicality" in Sentences
- Paul was alternately drawn to and repelled by her whimsicality and wantonness.
- "Let's go and get married," he urged, all the whimsicality of his utterance duplicated in his eyes.
- The poems of "Beginning and End of the Snow" 1991 have an easy whimsicality while maintaining their seriousness:
- I, who looked upon begging as a delightful whimsicality, thumbed myself over into a true son of Mrs. Grundy, burdened with all her bourgeois morality.
- "I want you so bad, Miss Mason, that I don't dast to ask you now," he said, with such whimsicality and earnestness as to make her throw her head back in a frank boyish laugh.
- The reason that so many things don't have that kind of whimsicality to them, especially in movies or in any kind of artwork or writing, is because it's so damn hard to find that.
- But simply to turn loose your soul to every whimsicality, to play the fool unafraid of any possible result, why, that requires a man other than a householder and law-respecting citizen.
- She adds, "As the grittiest of the 'Trek's, our show's fabric was interwoven with stories of war, family, loyalty, deception, sexuality, and a dash of whimsicality that both took the edge off and served as a mirror."
- Turning to painting in 1907, Feininger began to experiment with formal qualities, namely perspective, while infusing his genre scenes with the same intangible whimsicality evoked in his commercial work dating back to the turn of the century.
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