whimsies

And then, on top of all that dancing form, there are strange, rainbow coils of oil paint that look as though they've been squeezed out of a star-tipped pastry tube -- but that also evoke Victorian "whimsies," the over-the-top beadwork that native women sold to European ladies.

New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power Blake Gopnik 2010

(pictured) includes notched blocks plus narrow blocks that interlock in assortments that include some "whimsies" (blocks with wooden wheels).

unknown title 2009

On those few whose creativity, fortitude, technique and concoctions—from cream-puff whimsies to towering sculptures of spun and pulled sugar—are deemed worthy, the judges bestow the ultimate accolade for a pâtissier : the title of MOF craftsman of France and the right to wear a distinctive tricolor collar.

Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

But by the same token, this means that if we recognize the environmental imperative to start using energy in a less profligate way a lot of the reduction can come out of frivolous uses with consumers simply shifting their whimsies in less energy-intensive directions.

Matthew Yglesias » Refrigerated Beach Sand? 2009

Evelyn, Ahab, Laura W — thanks so much for your hard work transforming our whimsies into actual product.

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread 2010

But we've been told it did happen, narratively speaking, so we can either throw our hands up in the air and bewail the whimsies of writers with no sense of reality, or we can deal with it by asking how could it happen?

Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

But by the same token, this means that if we recognize the environmental imperative to start using energy in a less profligate way a lot of the reduction can come out of frivolous uses with consumers simply shifting their whimsies in less energy-intensive directions.

Matthew Yglesias » Refrigerated Beach Sand? 2009

But we've been told it did happen, narratively speaking, so we can either throw our hands up in the air and bewail the whimsies of writers with no sense of reality, or we can deal with it by asking how could it happen?

Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

On those few whose creativity, fortitude, technique and concoctions—from cream-puff whimsies to towering sculptures of spun and pulled sugar—are deemed worthy, the judges bestow the ultimate accolade for a pâtissier : the title of MOF craftsman of France and the right to wear a distinctive tricolor collar.

Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his.

CHAPTER XIII 2010