A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter " that appears in his 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.

Rather, the poem ’ s opening lines —“ Had we but world enough, and time / This coyness, Lady, were no crime ”— seems to suggest quite a whimsical tone of regret.

( He wrote a poem, Shyamale, under this whimsical pen name Maulānā Allāuddin Khilji ).

During this time, Broome created many DC characters and institutions, including the whimsical simian sleuth Detective Chimp, with artist Infantino, in The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog # 4 ( Aug. 1952 ); the Phantom Stranger, also with Infantino, in Phantom Stranger # 1 ( Sept. 1952 ); the Elongated Man, again with Infantino, in The Flash # 112 ( May 1960 ); and the post-apocalyptic heroes the Atomic Knights, with artist Murphy Anderson, in Strange Adventures # 117 ( June 1960 ).

The twelve rather whimsical tracks bore names like " Unidentified Flying Object " and " The Little Man From Mars " in an attempt to make electronic music more accessible to the general public.

" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.

( Sites in Australia would be eligible as well if either Australia or the USA were to annex the other, as a consequence of a whimsical provision added to the convention's bylaws in 1998 at the suggestion of Down Under Fan Fund delegate Terry Frost.

Adventures of Wim, then, is an effort to create a new interpretation of the story of Wim, drawing on the many previous efforts, and so providing a multi-faceted and whimsical account of ' one of the greatest figures in the 20th and 21st Century '.

The Myth Adventures are noted for and popular for their whimsical nature, myriad characters, and liberal use of puns.

The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying et al., often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list.

Tom Milne said that the film was " almost universally greeted as a disappointment, at best a whimsical exercise in the faux-naif in its attempt to capture the poetic simplicity of medieval faith, at worse an anticlimatic blunder " and that it was " rather like watching the animation of a medieval manuscript, with the text gravely read aloud while the images — cramped and crowded, coloured with jewelled brillance, delighting the eye with bizarre perspectives — magnificently play the role traditionally assigned to marginal illuminations.

This 1967 hit single is a densely orchestrated psychedelic marvel, which tells the whimsical and sad tale of an old man (" Grocer Jack "), who dies unappreciated, except by the children who loved him and miss him.

In France, the myth was the subject of a play by Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 ( 1929 ), the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told onstage previously.

* The Timess book has some whimsical entries, such as one for how to spell shh.

This idea, while whimsical, is quite difficult to fathom when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the skomorokhi, who were generally highly irritating to both church and state.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

The Central Illinois Regional Airport near Bloomington has a whimsical statue of Stevenson, sitting on a bench with his feet propped on his briefcase and his head in one hand, as if waiting for his flight.

While Time Magazine called it ' sensual, spiritual, whimsical, exuberant ', George Orwell called it ' one of the most hideous buildings in the world ' and James A. Michener called it " one of the strangest-looking serious buildings in the world ".

The flower has long been associated with human manner, as one man cleverly stated: “ Nature sports as much with the colours of this little flower as she does with the features of the human countenance .” The pansy ’ s particular connection to human thought and emotion is mirrored in one Dr. Evan ’ s poems, where he captures the whimsical, yet deep emotional roots of the pansy ’ s symbolism: “ Pied Pansy ,-once a vestal fair / In Cerestrain ,-now droops-/ Stained by the bolt of love her purple breast ,/ And ‘ freaked with jet ’ her party-colored vest ”.

Silverstein also wrote one of Johnny Cash's best known whimsical hits, " A Boy Named Sue.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical psychedelic fairy tale on side two relating the adventures of " Happiness Stan " and his need to find out where the moon went when it waned.

At a 1934 dinner for Lewis, Pepper called him " one of the most lovable and whimsical personalities which any of us have met in a lifetime.

This rather whimsical statement was one of only two times that Christie addressed a dedication to her readers, the other occasion being the penultimate Tommy and Tuppence book, By the Pricking of My Thumbs in 1968.

Some of the earliest O gauge trains made of tinplate weren't scale at all, made to unrealistic, whimsical proportions similar in length to modern HO scale, but anywhere from one and a half to two times as wide and tall.

Hodge was one of Samuel Johnson's cats, immortalized in a characteristically whimsical passage in James Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Later students of the whimsical problem came up with solutions which managed to avoid any inconsistencies, by having the ball emerge from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and deliver its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.

I had a sense that one side or the other must be mad, for it seemed to me that these books were dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish.

At least one whimsical effort has been made to describe the SORAS effect as time dilation due to " soap opera physics ".

With a height of six feet, five inches, he was one of the tallest Scottish peers, leading to the whimsical name of " Wee Iain ".

The Oddball Barnstar may be awarded to an editor who creates a particularly fine article regarding a subject that is odd, whimsical, or is otherwise something that one wouldn't expect to find in more traditional encyclopedias.

David Bromberg wrote and performs a whimsical bluegrass tune, “ The New Lee Highway Blues ”, describing the tribulations of traveling on an endless highway of one horse towns.

De Facto specializes in kooky, whimsical, and very eclectic instrumental grooves, the heady dub sounds of King Tubby and Lee " Scratch " Perry just one of the many influences vying for primacy in the strange soup of their music.

Years later he described himself ( to which other people attested ) as a weak, capricious and whimsical boy who for some reason loved to mock clergymen and suffered from sleepwalking at one time.

The Gilbert of The Bab Ballads, the Gilbert of whimsical conceit, inoffensive cynicism, subtle satire, and playful paradox ; the Gilbert who invented a school of his own, who in it was schoolmaster and pupil, who has never taught anybody but himself, and is never likely to have any imitator — this is the Gilbert the public want to see, and this is the Gilbert who on Saturday night was cheered till the audience was weary of cheering any more.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

The psychedelic-influenced and whimsical strand of British folk continued into the 1970s with acts including Comus, Mellow Candle, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Forest and Trees and with Syd Barrett's two solo albums.

It can be formed into whimsical shapes, like mushrooms, or piped into a crisp basket that is baked and filled later with cake, fruit, or flowers.

" After World War II the band shifted into higher gear leaning more toward a whimsical honky-tonk feel, with a heavy, manic bottom end-the slap bass of Fred Maddox.

The moon gate and other whimsical doorways also act to frame views and to force the viewer to pause for a transition into a new space.

" Roger Ebert called the film a " sweet, whimsical and surprisingly intelligent comedy " whose " last third ... turns into a hilarious sendup of the modern musical " that " must be the funniest deliberately bad play in a movie since Mel Brooks ' " Springtime for Hitler " in The Producers.

Here Sobule comments on her own unconventional show business career ( the bittersweet " Freshman ") as well as the tragicomic arc of go-go dancing 60s icon Joey Heatherton (" Joey ") alongside whimsical autobiographical songs (" Cinnamon Park " and " Strawberry Gloss ") and more politicized tracks dealing with issues related to adolescent homosexuality (" Underdog Victorious " and the humorous " Under the Disco Ball ") and even sexual slavery (" Tel Aviv ," sung in the voice of a girl forced into prostitution after going overseas for a waitressing job " in the Promised Land ").

Seymour wades into the ocean and, placing the girl on a rubber raft, proceeds to tell her the whimsical tale – “ the very tragic life ” – of the bananafish: in their gluttony, they gorge themselves on bananas, and swollen too large to escape their feeding holes, die.

Although he appears aloof and whimsical, Elder can display great authority and leadership spurring those around him including Sister Kate into action.

Her drawing evolved into what she calls " soft geometry ," featuring pastels used in a " colorful, light-hearted, and whimsical " manner.

I can only imagine that it is a whimsical riposte for my having my name removed from a film I wrote a few years ago reference to Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Halloween III for which Kneale wrote an early draft and which Mr Carpenter carpentered into sawdust ".

" Maslin felt that the " pointedly whimsical film overworks the fairy-tale aspect of this friendship ( between Devon and Trent )", she concluded that Duigan " does breathe life into a story that rails against conventional wisdom.