Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet WHIMSICAL

Definition av WHIMSICAL

1. som handlar på ett oförutsägbart sätt; oberäknelig
2. som hastigt växlar humör; lynnig, nyckfull
3. som inte många förstår sig på; besynnerlig, konstig, egen

Exempel på hur man kan använda WHIMSICAL i en mening

• It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it mostly pokes fun at famous people.
• Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre.
• Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist.
• The patriarch of the family, Grandpa Vanderhof, is a whimsical old man who keeps pet snakes and has never paid his income tax.
• The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines.
• While the Flintstones lived in a world which was a comical version of the Stone Age, with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a comical version of a century in the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.
• As the series name implies, the Silly Symphonies were originally intended as whimsical accompaniments to pieces of music.
• The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques (particularly electronics and arcade games) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.
• Some of the oil jacks along the main streets of Luling are decorated with whimsical characters, such as a girl eating a watermelon.
• Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.
• The whimsical south border of the municipality was straightened by boundary adjustments until the Scheldt.
• Adventures of Wim, then, is an effort to create a new interpretation of the story of Wim, drawing on the many previous efforts, and so providing a multi-faceted and whimsical account of 'one of the greatest figures in the 20th and 21st Century'.
• One of his early publications was Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675), a whimsical sketch, to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput may owe something.
• Tactical frivolity is a form of public protest involving humour; often including peaceful non-compliance with authorities, carnival and whimsical antics.
• It blended Pink Floyd's reputation for long-form improvisational pieces with Barrett's short pop songs and whimsical take on psychedelia.
• Further, users are often distracted by the whimsical performance of the facilitator as they move components around, as well as by their own acting to fake interactions, which would also impact the quality of feedback.
• His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse, a self-referential and experimental collection of short stories.
• Mac Liammóir, now calling himself "Michael Willmore", made a brief return to the stage in February 1917, in Felix Gets a Month, a "whimsical comedy" at the Haymarket Theatre.
• Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture.
• Tristram Shandy, a novel by Laurence Sterne (1759–67), introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental novel to the English literary public.

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