Sentence examples for whimsy from inspiring English sources

On the surface, these could just as easily be a child's whimsy, but genuine hallucinations have a very different flavour.

But the fact that its pre-teen title character is an aspiring ballet-dancer lifts it into the sort of follow-your-dreams whimsy that wouldn't be out of place in a Frank Capra movie.

It may sound like idealistic whimsy, but Niyonkuru says defeating a widespread sense of fatalism allowed him to create a grassroots-driven model of empowerment in his native Burundi, now locked in crisis after weeks of protest and an attempted coup.

With her stylist and muse credentials, Valentine does have a touch more whimsy to her look than yer average head-to-toe-in-black French chicists but she adheres to the core principle that less is ultimately more.

"We had to balance the post-modern comic whimsy, complete with time-travelling devices and modern TV references, with communicating 4,000 historical facts, and then flagging up which were the jokes and which were the true bits," he says.

Eight overs later, Birkie had taken 4-12, Leicester had won, and Johnno had to write " Wily Old Fox Does It Again".. Anyway, enough whimsy.

Since his 2002 landslide thrust Turkey into a new era that started with great promise and in recent years, by general consensus, has degenerated into whimsy and authoritarianism, Erdoğan has led the AKP to three election victories, increasing its vote every time and securing comfortable absolute majorities in the 550-seat parliament in Ankara.

Through 64 minutes, that whimsy proved disastrous.

The shop is a lark, intended to raise money to support programs, and allow whimsy to creep in.

The whimsy and gaffes, however, point to what has been Mr Brown's most damaging flaw: he is a lousy communicator.

But they were much more than engineering whimsy.