All 4 Uses of
whimsical
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- After all the pentagonal, hexagonal, and whimsical faces, which had succeeded each other at that hole without realizing the ideal of the grotesque which their imaginations, excited by the orgy, had constructed, nothing less was needed to win their suffrages than the sublime grimace which had just dazzled the assembly.†
Chpt 1.1.5whimsical = playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational
- It struck all as so whimsical, and so ridiculous, that the wild laughter even attacked the sergeants of the Parloiaux-Bourgeois, a sort of pikemen, whose stupidity was part of their uniform.†
Chpt 1.6.1
- a truce to your whimsical nonsense!†
Chpt 2.7.7 *
- To whom do you owe it that you breathe that air, behold that sky, and can still amuse your lark's mind with your whimsical nonsense and madness?†
Chpt 2.10.1