Thus redecorating becomes not a whimsical project, not an end in itself, but a means to an end, for a middle-class woman's identity depends upon her maintaining a proper drawing-room.
Universal themes are ultimately present, but they are treated one at a time, in whimsical morsels.
Suggestions ranging from the practical to the whimsical illustrate some possibilities for injecting the essence of these experiences into a more technological world, thereby enriching it.
A whimsical hypothetical dialogue between the spirits of science and law, written by a legal scholar, exemplifies these distinctions.
Consider the property of having a whimsical sense of humour.
Forgiving drunkards therefore was not a whimsical judicial practice that reflected the gap between legal texts and reality.
His 'introduction' is a swirling kaleidoscope of bright and glaring sound soon stalled by that whimsical contrabass clarinet - supported by equally whimsical percussion.
It is a paradox of this book that all its poetic evocations and its whimsical style are employed to describe its author's inarticulateness.
