I was going to write about fashion and art and whimsy (and death and depression and cancer) inspired by the obit page, but then I read something really scary and important on The New York Times front page.
The really big question, an urgent avenue for investigation, is what exactly the National Security Agency was doing before that night, under Mr. Bush’s personal orders.
Is more what we really need?
In my opinion not.
But running spies is not the NSA's job. Listening is, and more listening is what the NSA knows how to organize, more is what Congress is ready to support and fund, more is what the President wants, and more is what we are going to get.
He first thanked Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia whose aide was arrested after trying to carry loaded weapons into the Russell Senate Building, for providing security at the Hilton. He then expressed whimsy over what life was like more than a year ago, when his approval ratings were in the 30’s, his Supreme Court nominee had been withdrawn, and his vice president had gone hunting and shot a friend.
Confronted with a blank surface, he will cover it with scenes of anti-authoritarian whimsy: Winston Churchill with a Mohawk, two policemen kissing, a military helicopter crowned by a pink bow.
While some adults may shake their heads and dismiss such an event as typical anti-establishment "kids stuff," the truth is Saturday's event was no fleeting flight of anti-authoritarian whimsy—the students have worked their butts off to earn their stripes as "peaceniks."
Entire scenes are sabotaged by whimsy.
As Linden Labs' Philip Rosedale, the confab's most mesmerizing speaker, assuringly put it, all media breakthroughs started not with a clear-cut business plan but with "whimsy."
When I entered the Chinoise Tea Pavilion, "I Feel Good" was playing, James Brown’s muscular funk an odd counterpoint to the busy Orientalist whimsy.
Kill Bill is no orientalist whimsy.
Coleridge's gaunt Mariner dissolves into Orientalist whimsy.
Unchanging Egypt? An Orientalist whimsy; photograph from 1860.
Dictated by staunch opinions and unpredictable whimsy, Herzog’s unique taste in media is uncanny for its specificity. He boasts of a longstanding affinity for "The Anna Nicole Show" and its late star.
In any clothing retailer's 10K, you'll most certainly find weather is a risk factor, as well as the unpredictable whimsy of fashion trends.
That's where they're patently wrong. The majority of behaviour is design driven, not the unpredictable whimsy of the playerbase. Blizzard should realise that Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is in this case entirely controlled by them ...
... the unpredictable whimsy with which the uneducated generals run their economy, has consistently undermined their efforts ...
The Verdict: Once again, a tie. I DID see a cute bunny scampering across the yard while I was whacking the O.B., but cannot in good conscience award additional points based on the unpredictable whimsy of nature.
I believe this is important, as it serves to point out the unpredictable whimsy (and shortsightedness) of the modern music industry.
Venus exudes a sassy sex appeal and zest for discovery. She's very polite with a sense of unpredictable whimsy. [ Venus is a Poodle. ]
True gameheads coded their own logistical avatars from scratch, using strange snippets of code or impractical logarithms in an attempt to reproduce the entirely illogical and unpredictable whimsy of the crowd -- marriages and more had been lost between devout gameheads who didn’t agree on any one particular facet of their own game avatars.
... knowing the Scottish capacity for unpredictable whimsy ...
It wasn't the gore that got to me but the gratuitous whimsy.
Legolas' snow-walking trick: gratuitous whimsy, or is there more of a point to it?
... theirs is a roving, pastoral aesthetic that can either offer a displaced sense of belonging or wander off into gratuitous whimsy ...
Gratuitous whimsy is happily lacking ...
... sacrifices compelling drama for gratuitous whimsy and big-budget spectacle ... like the gratuitous fireball he inserts toward the end ...
The gratuitous whimsy that was so cloying in the early chapters gradually gives way to genuinely clever invention ...
WHIMSY is nice in a name, and in a restaurant’s décor, but whimsy on the plate can be even better.
Robyn Hitchcock has captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with a bewitching blend of psyche-pop and warped lyrical whimsy.
The most abstract, interesting, and loaded song on the CD is "Negro Whimsy," which satirizes violent, dope dealing, hip hop artists. The song features gun shots in the background and the listener is introduced to the hook "It’s like eating out the chamber pots and then saying you can’t believe how sick we got."
Their song mixes lyrics advocating nonviolence and multilateral disarmament with the band's sense of whimsy. Thus a deep thought is followed immediately by a rhyme like "They're layin' on the syrup thick/We ain't waffles, we ain't havin' it."
One of the reasons the film works hard to be light is because lines like "I just want to run away -- what kind of mother is that?" are so heavy. "Waitress" walks the line between whimsy and the pit.
Look for a little whimsy in your plants.
... when that whimsy is rendered into American English it comes across as arch and coy.
However, any sense of bucolic whimsy is rendered null and void by VanGaalen’s penchant for surrealist lyrics that evince his talents as a visual artist.
What might otherwise seem a banal piece of whimsy is rendered horribly sinister by our knowledge of what is about to happen.
"The Magic Flute" contains so much whimsy, it can lift the heart without Technicolor sets.
There was so much whimsy, so much fairytale, so much deep thought, so much decency in people. I loved it.
So much whimsy in knitting is restricted to baby stuff.
He doesn't have a clue what to do with so much whimsy in this "Mork and Mindy" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
The bank executive has a highly developed sense of whimsy, her friends say, noting her appearances at Halloween parties at the Village in costumes ranging from an Ice Princess to a blonde Cleopatra.
Gong was the foundation of the space-rock genre, their music mixing psychedelia, jazz-rock, and a highly developed sense of whimsy ...
... blessed with a highly developed sense of whimsy and an innate mechanical genius, he has taken a simple stove works and moved it into the magical kingdom ...
Mark Cottman, a self-taught Baltimore artist, said his Take Flight colorful artwork is a tribute to the whimsy and joy of flight.
Talk about the fashion circus. Vaudevillians, contortionists, a flamenco dancer and other characters that populate the upper Main came out last week for the launch of Katrin Leblond's new boutique. The designer upped the whimsy quotient of her former line, Fairyesque, with an amusing flying-trapeze-meets-singers-and-dancers performance. The performers/models wore plenty of rouge, fishnet stockings, shorts and lots of mesh. On the racks and shelves: bright colours, patchwork, floral appliques, printed kimono tops and printed pillows and bedding.
I think the influence of the average Welshman is dragging down the whimsy quotient.
Leave it to California to raise the whimsy quotient.
They appear to have upped the whimsy a notch, which may or may not be to your taste, depending on your view of the British music hall psychedelia of the late 60s.
The few times someone subjected me to it, the whimsy quotient made me want to clap my hand to prove my belief in fairies and I refuse to do that.
The whimsy quotient is raised to an almost assaultive level, with the result that nearly every musical number seemed to end with the unspoken question, "Are we having fun yet?"
