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Перевод: whimsical

[прилагательное]
причудливый; прихотливый; фантастический; капризный; эксцентричный

Тезаурус:

1. Gallotta's whimsical approach receives heavy support in his own country.
2. At times she is whimsical as on a visit by Princess Margaret to Jamaica in 1955: "May I go on record once and for all - I hate to bend the knee, except to God, and even then not too often."
3. It is the kind of American small town that Steven Spielberg might have invented in one of his more whimsical moods.
4. "There Is A Light" married whimsical comedy with suicidal emotion, in the finest tradition of manic Morrissey.
5. Even now, cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs, it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind.
6. We think of J.M. Barrie as a whimsical, sentimental writer, but he wrote in his private notebook:
7. The pre-teen Critics' Forum in Row H demolished John Napier's whimsical island of snow-capped peaks as if it were papier mache being assaulted by a blowtorch.
8. The original novel from which the film was adapted was light, comical and whimsical, yet despite the author's own involvement in the adaptation, the film version was unrelentingly crude and insensitive to the subject it was treating.
9. In 1793, Lord Chesterfield's chief steward deemed it "an old whimsical house, but fit for a gentleman's occupation".
10. After announcing a determination to play serve-and-volley, whatever the event, the ultimate professional then proceeded to work chiefly from the baseline for five sets to defeat that whimsical artist Miloslav Mecir in the final of the Stuttgart Classic exhibition tournament here on Saturday.
11. "Unnecessary suffering?", last night's Natural Concern programme (BBC 2), began with shots of the cuddly toys and cartoons with which modern children are sold the lie that "animals are whimsical, endearing extensions of ourselves": the emotions which lead people to stick up for animals, that is, can be branded as essentially childish.
12. And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe, taking it over in the title of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse, we may well think again about Auden's comment that in English family life "it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks, hoaxes, family games and jokes".
13. A whimsical narrative of his own travels by Laurence Sterne (1768).