Whimsical sixth-form pretensions, basically.
Mr. Sheng avoided the well-known Beijing opera form he had used in "Silver River" (1997), his compact, whimsical second opera.
In her whimsical second novel, The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt chose a friendship between a New York City hotel maid in the 1940s and Nikola Tesla, the eccentric genius of an inventor.
The whimsical first-person journey lets you frantically wave and gesture to each other, and even talk, with software modulating your voice to sound like a watery sea creature or Daft Punk robot.
Michael Ballou's hybrid constructions of miniature figures and animals look whimsical at first, but their sinister overtones are soon apparent.
Hiltner says she loves to create work that might appear whimsical at first glance, but reveals a much more sinister side upon closer inspection.
Mr. Sono's direction is haphazard; he oversells the first half's whimsical touches (including fourth-wall-breaking compositions too reminiscent of Wes Anderson's movies) and the second half's spiral-of-doom emoting.
A few hits: Beelzebubs (Tufts University) Known for their theatrical choreography, this whimsical group placed second in the first season of "Sing-Off" and won over producers from "Glee," who asked them to rearrange Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and provide backup vocals.
The June release of "Under a Big Bright Yellow Umbrella," Yosi's third whimsical, genre-spanning CD for 2- to 9-year-olds, which is holding at No.11 (down from its peak of No.2) on the XM Satellite Radio childrens' chart has won him honors including the Film Advisory Board's award of excellence.
Then the pianist Bradley Moore played the first whimsical bars of "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" from Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffmann" and Ms. Morley began to sing.
