(n.) A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.
(n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.
(v. i.) To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
(2) If we’re going to change the model, we can’t just do it on a whim of government or the people who design these courses.” What he does like about Think Ahead is that participants will be doing “proper social work”, even if, in his view, they will be unprepared for the task.
(3) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
(4) Your whims are Benji's command, readers – tell us where to go!
(5) Instead it amounts to exploitation, decided at the whim of a Jobcentre Plus adviser."
(6) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
(7) I’m probably the hardest bandleader to work for, but I do it for love.” His band have rehearsed around 300 songs, from which Prince can choose at whim, which makes playing live more fun that it used to be.
(8) But its purchase and use relies on satisfying personal whim, prejudice or educational fashion, not on considerations of educational efficiency.
(9) Journalists who work here are not part of the press pack who must always keep one eye looking over their shoulder at their proprietor’s political whims – on business, on taxation or the European Union.
(10) If your reforms are a matter of ideology, legacy, whim and faith, then, like many of your predecessors, you could simply say so, and leave "evidence" to people who mean it.
(11) During the local election campaign Farage has also jettisoned, seemingly on his whim, longstanding policies such as a flat rate of tax.
(12) The very things that give small charities their allure can also be their greatest limitations Having been managed by a founder in three out of my four major jobs, and working closely with one in the fourth, I have lived out all the symptoms: ad-hoc practices with no systems and processes, unilateral decisions at the whim of the founder, a resistance to professionalising and losing the personal touch, and a way of working that revolves entirely around one person because the assumption is that this immortal personality will be around forever.
(13) It isn’t a whim of Thea’s not to go back to the classroom.
(14) Significant peptide release occurred only when B15 was stimulated at high frequency or at lower frequencies with a relatively long burst duration (Whim and Lloyd, 1989).
(15) He has been right too often in this tournament for it to be down to random chance, to the whims of the gods and to be about anything but cold logic, a huge ego and a steely, steely nerve.
(16) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(17) That’s before fuel, water, food and tips for the crew, who will cater to the guests’ every whim as the yacht hops from Sardinia to Monaco to Greece or, during the winter, the Caribbean.
(18) But while both of us were at their whim, I pointed out that it was he, not security, who had notified Special Branch.
(19) Yet the choice of who should be employed as counselors is based on little more than personal whims of decision makers.
(20) Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), did not just wake up one morning and, on a whim, write a lengthy and carefully argued defence of the old Whitehall verities.
Whimsy
Definition:
(n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
(n.) A whim.
(n.) A whimsey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(2) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".
(4) Having to work with real life events keeps him from the shark-jumping flights of whimsy he employs elsewhere in his oeuvre.
(5) Each floor has been shaped by a different team of designers - Cibic and Partners, Stanton Williams, Eldridge Smerin and Future Systems - adding a touch of near-gravity here, whimsy there and pure theatre elsewhere.
(6) "It's very important to hold on to our whimsy," he says when I ask him about it.
(7) However, Keating's highly contrived plots and acute sense of whimsy failed to find favour in the US.
(8) Whenever his writing threatens to descend into the period's standard responses of disdain or whimsy, his ear catches the unique accent of an ordinary voice and elevates it to the dignity of print.
(9) But the narrative skips along, lightened by jokes and whimsies.
(10) Under the new name Mumford & Sons (a bit of nu-folk whimsy: no blood relations here), their earliest gigs, remembers Lovett, "were awful.
(11) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(12) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(13) Her father was a country doctor who had seen his share of death and who liked to say there were only three subjects for art: sex, death and whimsy.
(14) The Edwardian classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery about a feisty, freckled orphan girl sent to live on the island unsurprisingly features heavily in PEI's tourist industry promotions, such that some shops resort to having Anne-free zones to lure visitors wearied of the whimsy.
(15) Amelie The Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades northern California cool for Montmartre whimsy when it offers this musical, adapted from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.
(16) When in the mid- 1930s he went to Mousehole, the Cornish fishing village, to pursue primitive realism, it was because "I could see in it Rousseau, Modigliani, Bonnard and Matisse – these painters had more meaning for me than the whimsy of Paul Klee" (Dylan Thomas liked Klee).
(17) For all the lovers of his whimsy, there are equally ardent critics.
(18) (Second place in that poll are the Dresden Dolls, but I guess MLB wasn't big on pretentious open letters and forced whimsy.)
(19) I caught my breath and took a seat, giving up on any whimsy about first class.
(20) Industry insiders I talked to thought the next generation of comics would bring in a new era of whimsy and mild observation.