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Перевод: whimsically

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1. It was this work, along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances, that created his reputation as "Canada's leading young poet": "His virtues are his own, and they are considerable at his best he expresses himself, sometimes whimsically, sometimes passionately, in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce," commented Allan Donaldson at the time.
2. Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes (he often deals whimsically with them, and he describes himself as - not much of a churchgoer) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience; he could assume that his readers - represented by Torquatus - would take the point if, in developing a theme, he reminded them of a name out of history or legend.
3. "Is this a soft day?" she asked whimsically.
4. For the servant the height of the house is understood, however whimsically, as a problem of cleaning.
5. By the nineteenth century this language of animals and flowers had been almost lost, though E. H. Aitkin in India in 1883, drawing a chameleon hunting a butterfly, could whimsically call it "the pursuit of pleasure".
6. Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets, but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet, or for that matter the builders who followed Wren's drawings and erected St. Paul's Cathedral.
7. It is not something to be bestowed whimsically by a benevolent manager (Earley and Fletcher-Campbell 1989:203).
8. "Yet it seems to have a song of its own," she said whimsically.
9. This place was like the garden of Eden, she thought whimsically, and she didn't know if the job here was a serpent's temptation or a golden apple.
10. The firm has a whimsically wide range of businesses from paper milling and food retailing to oil refining and drugs.
11. It has regarded itself solemnly, satirically, whimsically, respectfully.
12. Curzon was wont to complain, and with justice, that Chamberiain "forgot all about India when he launched his scheme", and whimsically mused on "what would have become of him and us if he had ever visited India
13. For this, he used Debussy's piano suite, "Morceaux enfantins", as the inspiration of dances whimsically reflecting both memories and fantasies of childhood.