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Example sentences for "whimsicalities"

Lexicographically close words:
whimpering; whimpers; whims; whimsey; whimsical; whimsicality; whimsically; whimsies; whimsy; whin
  1. Distinct and as different as possible from the orderly statements of Eliot, and from the slightly acid whimsicalities of these ladies, are the poems of Carlos Williams.

  2. Laforgue's influence or Ghil's or some kindred tendency is present in the whimsicalities of Marianne Moore, and of Mina Loy.

  3. Braham and Parry and Hullah winged with melody the words of "The Village Coquettes;" while the quaint humour of Harley excited roars of laughter through the whimsicalities of "Is She His Wife?

  4. And so on, ringing the changes on a thousand wonderful conceits and whimsicalities that come tumbling out one after another in inexhaustible sequence and with uninterrupted volubility.

  5. It is not his design to excite or to thrill, to waken comedy through whimsicalities or mournfulness by anything tragical.

  6. The place of whimsicalities is accordingly taken by sentimental and melodramatic scenes from the life of the poor.

  7. Under his influence Danhauser in Vienna deserted whimsicalities for the representation of social conflicts in middle-class life.

  8. The novel may become a classic, because it represents human nature, or even the whimsicalities of a period; but the illustrations of the artist only provoke a smile, because he has represented merely the unessential and the fleeting.

  9. Stripped of its whimsicalities of phraseology and its humorous extravagances, Carlyle's philosophy stands revealed as essentially idealistic in character.

  10. But there is an infinite variety of characters in action, and a perfect understanding of that form of the imagination which displays itself in whimsicalities corresponding to the "originals" or "humourists" of the Elizabethan comedy.

  11. The whimsicalities of this train foreshadowed for Anthony the whimsicalities of all army administration.

  12. Within the room the vivacity died in the woman's eyes, the whimsicalities drew back in sudden panic at the beast look on the governor's face; the swing was gone from the strumming music, the rhythm from the swaying dance.


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