whimsy

There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism.

Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy.

Sure, focussing on wellbeing over whimsy is okay sometimes, but it can't be our only option in a market with so much scope.

Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop.

But instead of focusing purely on the color and whimsy of blossoms, Simons looked at their structure.

The whimsy creatures we are matched to contrast with, shift as the very winds or feather-grasses in the wind.

He called our marriage and the life we were living a comedy, and used to say it was a caprice, a whimsy.

There needs none to agitate the mind; a mere whimsy without body and without subject will rule and agitate it.

Kenny, who believed all things of Fate when the pet or victim was himself, refused absolutely to credit her crowning whimsy.

Lying in bed that morning, she found herself caught by her old impersonal whimsy.