The expansion of the etched blank causes distortion, which gives the engraved figures a freer, whimsical air.
Yet Fogu says he also resembled "Geppetto," Pinocchio's father who had a whimsical air.
Matthew Herbert has produced the album, giving it that otherworldly, whimsical air that's kind of his trademark.
All of Snowden's work shared a whimsical air--comic-book figures, especially Little Orphan Annie, became a common feature--but with serious intent.
The characters aren't whimsical, the air is blue-black, and the drenching rain never ends.
The cross rises some 15 feet into the air, a whimsical latticework of Christian motifs, fish, ladders and moons.
It's as if her sentences leave a whimsical trail in the air, waiting for the listener to catch the thread and weave their own end.
The path is lined with enormous lamps that look like hot-air balloons — whimsical echoes of the façade — and it begins at a train-and-bus station, so that people who arrive by car and those who take public transportation merge together as they walk along the elevated boulevard.
I took a sidewalk table at the Cornelia Street Café, ordered a burger, and had the pleasant feeling of entering into a whimsical art movie: the decorous, wistful repetitions of ten Holt's music lent an air of mystery to the dripping of water from the awning, the gliding whoosh of bicyclists in orange rain gear, and the waitress's commentary on the menu.
He is thirty-seven, but he hasn't quite lost a taste for whimsical sports coats or bulky Air Jordans that make him look as if he had borrowed someone else's feet.
The first one, after glimpses of jazz-rock and Latin rhythms in the opening "Abraxas" and the whimsical, shifty, Phish-y song "Hot Air Balloon," largely settled into one brisk tempo and stayed there.
