Sentence examples for seems whimsical from inspiring English sources

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Yet like Danny, her motivation seems whimsical and inexplicable.

His volte-face, given that it was he who encouraged the intensification of Indian suspicions and hostility toward Pakistan, seems whimsical rather than statesmanlike.

Each of these events seems whimsical and arbitrary and yet, as Javier Marías shows in this masterly novel, chance is nothing but the result of our own negligent reading.

Though it seems whimsical, the putting green at Hyde Midtown evokes a luxury outdoor mindset that people want from a Florida dwelling--even one in the heart of Miami.

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Some student-made fast prototypes seem whimsical.

Mr. Levine's drawings never seemed whimsical, like those of Al Hirschfeld.

His skills were deceptive, his ability to turn them on seemed whimsical.

This may seem whimsical, but one feels in the work over all a sensibility of impressive spiritual vitality.

The United States Golf Association, for example, deliberates about the pairings for the United States Open but it occasionally makes choices that seem whimsical -- one group last year had three players who had attended Oklahoma State and another had three who attended Clemson.

The critic Brian Sewell, reviewing a major exhibition of Long's work at London's Hayward Gallery in 1991, observed that "as sculpture it may seem whimsical, but as interior decoration it is superb".

He provides a comprehensive intellectual history from Emerson to Rawls, with particular emphasis on American pragmatism, but his claims at times seem whimsical: philosophy in America is likened to "a big-budget Transformers-type special effects movie"; the ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates is judged to be the equal of his younger contemporary Socrates.

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