Sentence examples for whimsical over from inspiring English sources

Whether your tastes tend toward the gritty Jack Reacher procedural or the witty Father Brown whimsical, over the course of a weekend, acclaimed novelists William Ryan and M.R. Hall will give an intensive and entertaining overview of the building blocks of crime fiction.

Her work is a little like her personality — it's upbeat and whimsical". Over the years, the number of artists has kept growing, Coston said.

"Fashion Verdict" has a dizzying format — part makeover show, part show trial — but like a lot of Russian television it's a whimsical, over-the-top adaptation that somehow suits the national spirit.

Strip malls and trailer parks drift past the car windows, a rainstorm patters on the roof, and Crystal's whimsical voice-overs — and her fascination with mermaids — position her as a childlike liability.

With slyly edited images and a probing, whimsical voice-over, Marker links seemingly disparate facts and ideas in surprising, provocative ways (his take on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 is worth the price of admission), even if his ultimate dream of a dictatorship of the proletariat remains nothing more than a self-abnegating fantasy.

Then there is the Trail of Two Cities, a whimsical run/walk over the causeways between the mainland town of Somers Point and Ocean City.

I can see why the original film and Sam Raimi's new film decided to go with "whimsical tornado" over "dehumanizing 19th century psychological treatment".

The dress intentionally dropped to the stage floor as a whimsical voice over the speakers started to wax poetic about the world of imagination.

When Christina Aguilera redecorated her home, she went big with bold colors — from bright green in the library to black and yellow in the kitchen — whimsical furnishings and over-the-top glam.

"Women of the world, take over," the whimsical Scots bard Ivor Cutler once urged, his advice taken last Friday at a concert featuring women performers from different strata of the musical spectrum.

Another selling tactic is welcoming government leaders to Silicon Valley, in the hope that whimsical office spaces and over-the-top employee perks will impress Washington bureaucrats.