whimsical

• “I feel Dustin would hate the word whimsical to describe anything he's written, but it's given me that sort of delight on a random Tuesday afternoon.”

  "One moment you are reading sleepily, the next you wake up with messy hair and a strange taste in your mouth."

• “As we now know, thanks to his current trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor, he regularly assembles veritable harems of young women for bacchanals with a dress code that could be described as whimsical.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “She titled the whimsical instructional, "Milk in bags, eh?”

  Thestar.com - Home Page

• “The sign that had once stood out front, Antiques—New and Old, was gone, as were the Nazi guards, who must have found the designation as whimsical as Private Hüber and his family did.”

  Simon & Schuster: HITLER’S HOLY RELICS

• “Its style might be well described as whimsical, its purpose is to amuse by means of playful fancies, and it usually exhibits”

  Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story

• “Also, there is nothing that could possibly be called whimsical, nothing critical or self-critical, about him.”

  Since Cézanne

• “Nobody likes Micawber less for his follies; and Dickens liked his father more, the more he recalled his whimsical qualities.”

  Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By John Forster

• “Art is not dignified by being called whimsical -- or capricious.”

  Albert Durer

• “Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, the editor, was away at the time, and I recall his whimsical horror when on his return he read the things I had said about a novel, which I, in the heat of youth, held to be entirely un-American.”

  Confessions of a Book-Lover

• “They seem to regard the wayfaring Britisher as whimsical, that is all.”

  East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne

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