Her puppets occasionally communicate through whimsical voice bubbles, including a few references to the audience: "They're in the way!" Once the people on one side of the footlights have been acknowledged, the absence of their onstage counterparts is all the more disconcerting, less like an omission and more like an abandonment.
The dress intentionally dropped to the stage floor as a whimsical voice over the speakers started to wax poetic about the world of imagination.
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.
She's vacillated between serious drama and more whimsical fare, voicing a character in "Monsters vs. Aliens," and taking a lead in CIA drama, "Rendition".
But elsewhere there were whimsical skits, silly voices and distinctly hippyish affectations.
The quirky twists of Jane's life are delivered in a whimsical, self-aware narrative voice, a direct shout out to the French film Amelie.
First, Cherkaoui treats us to a whimsical disquisition on gesture, voiced by Ulrika Kinn Svensson, whose memorably weird performances lit up the triptych's earlier works.
Guided by the whimsical Ms. Frizzle, with the voice of Lily Tomlin, the bus and its young charges will blast from the ocean's floor to the galaxy's edge through a whirlwind of scientific field trips created to get young minds thinking.
The voice of Paul Chowder — prickly, whimsical, genially pedagogic, opinion-stippled and often lavishly intelligent — supplied the vessel, yet poetry, the novel's subject and in some sense its main character, provided the sustenance.
And within the whimsical constructions of the songs is a voice filled not only with yearning and uncertainties but also with the confidence to air them.
