How To Use Capricious In A Sentence
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This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant.
Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
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And I should loathe for us to founder on so capricious and arbitrary a matter as a technical glitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward.
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To prefer food to art, capriciousness and indulgence to "simplicity" and "contemplat [ion]," and eating to other forms of incorporation, is, of course, a female or effeminated preference (Gill 597).
Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
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It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
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Concerned the President does not view gay men and women as "human beings whose lives, loves, and families are equal" to his own, Solomnese mockingly offered to "reintroduce" the LGBT community to their capricious ally in the White House.
RedState
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a capricious summer breeze
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This battle between cold and hot is why Easter weather is so capricious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human.
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But, he stresses, the refuge also institutes capricious policies.
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And just as the democrat will not admit of a secular constitution which the people could not destroy and which would prevent him from making bad laws; just as the democrat will not submit -- if we may adopt the terminology of Aristotle -- to being governed by _laws_, to be governed that is by an ancient body of law which would check the people and obstruct it in its daily fabrication of _decrees_; so just in the same spirit the democrat does not admit of a God Who has issued His commandments, Who has issued His body of laws, anterior and superior to all the laws and all the decrees of men, and Who sets His limit on the legislative eccentricities of the people, on its capricious omnipotence, in a word, on the sovereignty of the people.
The Cult of Incompetence
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Her barely there makeup took almost an hour to apply and she’d arranged her hair in an upswept ’do that required forty-five minutes of concentration as she created an off-center part, gathered her hair tightly into place, and then strategically released strands of hair, allowing the tresses to dangle, successfully pulling off the impression of whimsical undoneness that was both capricious and exceedingly sexy.
Pure Paradise
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Whether you interpret such behavior as capriciousness or hard-core adventure, enduring it is a price you must occasionally pay.
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The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate.
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Now on the other hand, the English iambic tetrameter is a hesitating, loose, capricious form, always in danger of having its opening semeion chopped off, or of being diluted by a recurrent trimeter, or of developing a cadential lilt.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
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No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
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In any event, I reserve the right to be arbitrary and capricious in choosing which comments to delete because they cross the line.
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Neither is horrible to read, but the attribute version in Listing 2 is easier -- and better still to write, because you do not need to worry about capricious subelement ordering.
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The purpose of the provision in paragraph 18.15 is to prevent arbitrary or capricious searches.
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So how does one attach figures and probabilities to something as capricious as the Oscars?
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have small, spiteful, capricious weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a good thing, obviously, but it is hard to defend the capriciousness of the process in the hands of the execrable Senator.
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Woman is less changeable, but to call her capricious is a stupid insult.
A Prince of Bohemia
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The Pyrenees are famous for their capricious showers, which pour rain and hail on one mountainside while another is bathed in sunlight.
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The only trouble was that the fish were capricious; on some days the coble would come in with a hundred, on other days with none.
Morgan’s Run
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The true gods are fickle and capricious and care little for the affairs of men, but the piper was different.
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But there was the capricious look of the latent aesthete in his eyes.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Women, who were treated like packmule breeders, had great challenges up until the 1920's: They were subject to legally-sanctioned, capricious murders by their husbands or bored crowds.
Gay/Lesbian Forum
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Having laws you're not going to enforce is an invitation for capricious and arbitrary prosecution.
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Fortunately, the anemone is much easier to grow and vastly more reliable than this capricious woodland tree.
Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the fact that it is summer, this is the second time in a week that the production has been thrown by the capricious Moroccan weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then came an increasing asthenopia, with evening headaches, until her temper changed and became capricious and irritable.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped drift of withered leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act.
The Piazza Tales
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Y'know, I'm starting to be concerned at my own capriciousness.
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If you pay attention you realize the future only allows humanity and nature opportunities to exercise capriciousness.
2011 - What I Wanted
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Relatively incorrupt, they brought an end to the capricious violence of the warlords who ruled in the post-Soviet vacuum.
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To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot.
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Do we want to be this cruel and capricious?
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Please don't be capricious and quick-tempered any more.
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Closer analysis shows that the motif does not appear as a random or capricious feature but follows a pattern.
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Such capricious investing behaviour often ends in tears.
Times, Sunday Times
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Copies of the memorandum went to the membership of appeals committees that had found the provost's decisions to be arbitrary and capricious.
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The joys of the story -- Aang's impish capriciousness, Katara's valiance, Soka's buffoonery, even Uncle Iroh's avuncular charm -- have all been el […] (author unknown)
2010 May 06 « Monster Scifi Show Blog
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In his May decision, Ed W. Bankston said that the Social Security Administration "trampled upon the rights of this grievant," and her 90-day suspension was "arbitrary, capricious and a serious abuse of managerial discretion.
Federal Diary: Union fights case of 'Little Rock 3,' charging discrimination
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Considering our Constitution includes capricious capitalization and other unrule-bound spellings, letter sequencing in names could be argued to be not binding and even identity oppressive.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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After much consideration he could derive this behaviour from nothing better than a capriciousness in his friend's temper, from a kind of inconstancy of mind, which makes men grow weary of their friends with no more reason than they often are of their mistresses.
Amelia — Complete
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The islands, flushed with the fresh growth of a Northern spring, and the newly formed shore-line where the capricious Missouri had recently undermined a stretch of bank, gave character to the scene, as did the delicately virent leaves of swirling willow, quaking aspens and cottonwoods loosened from their place on shore to float in midstream.
A Man of Two Countries
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At this moment the daylight, that was stintingly diffused through the small, heavily-leaded window-panes, tinted the assembly with capricious tones and powerful contrasts from the chequered light and shade.
The Exiles
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The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious.
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He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak.
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Fashion designers have always been capricious in relation to woman's size, but in the past it only affected the bourgeoise or women of a certain age.
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The validity of the UAO is litigated under an extremely deferential standard — arbitrary and capricious review on the administrative record developed by the EPA.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Superfund Unconstitutional?
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The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate.
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In short, they're picky eaters, and their appetites are capricious and unpredictable.
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But can an Assembly be dissolved arbitrarily, capriciously, whimsically, at the absolute discretion of a Chief Minister?
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But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine.
Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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We have small, spiteful, capricious weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I should loathe for us to founder on so capricious and arbitrary a matter as a technical glitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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It'll be a real hoot to see the neighbors gawking, gasping and going completely bonkers over your capricious little caper.
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They like people and are interested in their foibles, whims and capricious nature.
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In the end, I picked as my bachelorette a capricious little blonde with ambitions to be a rock diva.
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Exhausted and in constant pain, she had to contend with vast, unfathomable personality changes that made her capricious, indecisive, impatient and intolerant.
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But capriciousness, randomness and unexamined biases are not the exception, they are the rule.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a spectator it feels like being flung about in a capricious pinball machine: raucous and dizzying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only the capricious talent of David Lynch could manage to produce a noirish thriller that is so confusing and yet spellbinding at the same time.
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A young, pleasure-loving emperor misbehaves and treats capriciously all of those who surround him.
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Such capricious investing behaviour often ends in tears.
Times, Sunday Times
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I miss her because she was capricious and unreliable, and because minis are the kind of car that make people smile.
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And here we are in one of the most notoriously capricious seas in the world, aboard a fantastic yacht called 2041.
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* These misspellings, or “cacographic” variations, were a little different from the phonetic vernacular used by the Southern “frame” writers and Sam Clemens’s “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass,” in that they seemed aimed less at mimicking the sounds of a distinct regional dialect than the capricious misspellings of an uneducated man.
Mark Twain
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To a casual observer, the conversation might have seemed haphazard and capricious: it was anything but.
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But only is a relative concept when at any moment a capricious up-, down-, or cross-draft might have dashed the dangling deputy against the side of the cliff or sent the helicopter spiraling into the ravine.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ
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there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris, islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea
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Regulation can vary from laissez-faire to the oppressive and capricious.
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To claim that God engages in this same capricious and barbaric behavior is to blaspheme God.
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[24] Shakespeare has _capricious, conversation_, fatigate
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
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Objectively, it seems to me it's arbitrary, capricious, inconsistent.
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Yanukovich says the pro-European Tymoshenko should start acting like the prime minister that she currently is or "get back to the kitchen" and continue her "capriciousness" there.
Euronews
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And I should loathe for us to founder on so capricious and arbitrary a matter as a technical glitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Powell's fatalistic words do convey a career military man's appreciation of the arbitrary and capricious nature of war.
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I'll tell you what it is," returned his patron, "I never knew much of that sort of fine ladies, and I believe they may be as capricious as the devil; but there is something in Miss Ashton's change a devilish deal too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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That was the game: close control and avoid a capricious wind.
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As it was, this random capriciousness on his part ended up providing me with my main home address for the next 16 years.
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The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting.
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Do we want to be this cruel and capricious?
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Those allowed to be capricious Scalled youth.
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All artists are androgynous; in Chopin the feminine often prevails, but it must be noted that this quality is a distinguishing sign of masculine lyric genius, for when he unbends, coquets and makes graceful confessions or whimpers in lyric loveliness at fate, then his mother's sex peeps out, a picture of the capricious, beautiful tyrannical Polish woman.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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They needed protection from capricious employment and help with relationships, parenting, and skills.
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Still, most of what we ask that dogs learn can only be described as capricious and arbitrary.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
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More than to any one of the master's scherzos, the name capriccio would be suitable to his third "Scherzo," Op. 39, with its capricious starts and changes, its rudderless drifting.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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One of Trine's would-be selling points is its physics-based puzzles, but history has taught us by now that "physics-based" is often a euphemism for "capricious" - and that's the case here.
Paste Magazine
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It is an immensely tough way of living but one which now, with over-grazing and an increasingly capricious climate, is beginning to look very vulnerable.
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The woman was so fickle-minded and capricious that Agueda often found herself confused.
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But because the ambiguities of accidentalism at this time had to be conceptualized by alternative characterizations of God as either the rational or the capricious Uncreated Being, the result for men was fideistic optimism or nescience.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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That was the game: close control and avoid a capricious wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Capricious and arbitrary as the system might be, it serves several contradictory needs at once.
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In those circumstances the arrest, though subsequently found to be unlawful, could not be said to be capricious or arbitrary.
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The forecast suggested that we would make it this time, though the wind was still capricious in nature and biting at times.
Times, Sunday Times
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But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses.
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He can be so sweet sometimes, he's just very capricious and whimsical.
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Please allow me to maintain my self-image as capricious, arbitrary and unfair.
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He clearly took an often capricious delight in this paradox.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the sprites that run the weather here are capricious, their temperaments are contained within some very strict limits.
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Associated Press Even before this case, India's tax system had a formidable reputation for capriciousness.
Taming the Indian Taxman
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Even those who have climbed in the Alps or the lower Himalayas, find it hard to understand the appeal of such a brutal and capricious mountain.
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I guess that being French, the incredibly sophisticated and capricious ways the apostrophe is used in my language has given me full confidence that I would be forgiven whatever I would do in another language.
Apostrophes in business names and place names
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Whatever the cause, it would appear arbitrary and capricious to limit the number of years students are given to learn English.
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Among other objects, certain large glass vases, ornamented by the polite art of potichomanie, have long appealed to my fancy, wherein they capriciously allied themselves to the history of aging single women in lonely New England village houses, -- pathetic sisters lingering upon the neutral ground between the faded hopes of marriage and the yet unrisen prospects of consumption.
Suburban Sketches
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We felt that we were asking them to abide by their standards, which were being executed capriciously.
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The forecast suggested that we would make it this time, though the wind was still capricious in nature and biting at times.
Times, Sunday Times
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The forces of good are deceitful, proud and capricious; evil is largely unrepentant, self-pitying and, yet, absolved.
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The workings of the system were entirely capricious and arbitrary.
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My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority (ranchers in WY, MT, ID, et. al.) from the capricious wishes of the majority (the liberal, big-city types coalesced into the various environmentalist groups like GreenPeace).
Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups
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And I like to think there's still a little of that capriciousness to my choices.
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Romantic heroines are often capricious.
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The TRC's findings were also "capricious and arbitrary" and would "besmirch" the legitimate struggle against apartheid ..
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Going to court is an expensive, long-winded and capricious way to resolve disputes.
Times, Sunday Times
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This battle between cold and hot is why Easter weather is so capricious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The increasing confidence of the Irish labour force means that employees are less inclined to tolerate biased, arbitrary or capricious employer decisions.
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He clearly took an often capricious delight in this paradox.
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Perhaps this is because he believes so much in divine providence and God's redemption in Christ, and he refuses to believe that God is capricious.
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Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers.
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It is as if we, temperamental and capricious, have been having a stormy affair with aloof, indifferent El Niño.
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Those allowed to be capricious Scalled youth.
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Officials who treat citizens capriciously should not be surprised when citizens use the legislature to put the officials on a shorter leash.
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Dumb Blonde: The capricious schtick was all a persona, if Hollywood legend is to be believed.
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My take on the subject of constitutionality is that the federal government is constitutionally obligated to protect the economic and social interests of the minority (ranchers in WY, MT, ID, et. al.) from the capricious wishes of the majority (the liberal, big-city types coalesced into the various environmentalist groups like GreenPeace).
Bush Administration v. Environmental Groups
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Do we want to be this cruel and capricious?
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the fact that it is summer, this is the second time in a week that the production has been thrown by the capricious Moroccan weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is secrecy being asserted to protect legitimate state secrets, or to cloak a government employee who has acted capriciously?
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We are all fragile, kept up in the air by the most capricious winds.
Times, Sunday Times
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But love must be a pleasure, and if I do not find in it the satisfaction of what you call my capriciousness, but which is really my desire, my life, my love, I do not want it; I prefer to live alone.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Let us say that on a rare, windy day in Waterloo, someone leaves a copy of our beloved Imprint on a bench outside, completely at the mercy of the fickle, capricious wind.
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So, to return whence I began, it is no use imagining that we necessarily hear music by going to concerts and festivals and operas, exposing our bodily ear to showers and floods of sound, unless we happen to be in the right humour, unless we dispose, at the moment, of that rare and capricious thing -- the _inner ear_.
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
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Ultimately, that's for the voters to decide, and recent history shows them to be a mercurial, at times capricious lot.
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Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
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The advantages of buying, especially in a very low-tax area such s Lakeside with no need for air conditioning or very much heat, is that, if things go bad, your shelter is paid for and no landlord can capriciously raise your rent.
MORE ISSUES
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She appeared to him to be pining "capriciously" when she became thin and neurotic.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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Nonetheless, I wanted to keep an eye on things so my body didn't end up fluctuating as capriciously as my skirt lengths.
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He clearly took an often capricious delight in this paradox.
Times, Sunday Times
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This battle between cold and hot is why Easter weather is so capricious.
Times, Sunday Times
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This lefthanded compliment makes women seem attractively feminine, and yet , when a girl is capricious , her actions are reminiscent of the lowly billy goat.
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The forecast suggested that we would make it this time, though the wind was still capricious in nature and biting at times.
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Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, so it was let for forty francs a year.
Les Miserables
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I think it shows you how capriciously political that committee was when she was on it.
Newt Gingrich vs. Nancy Pelosi: GOP Candidate Fires Back
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If I get tired -- if when you come back, you don't find me, just conclude, "capriciously," I have gone on some little errand of my own.
Half A Chance
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I don't want laws that aren't enforced but serve a symbolic function - except when they're capriciously enforced.
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Aster thought of taking steamboat to go and see Orchis, but he was saved that expense by the unexpected arrival in Marietta of Orchis in person, suddenly called there by that strange kind of capriciousness lately characterizing him.
The Confidence-Man
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It is capricious and fickle, changing moods easily.
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For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
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We are all fragile, kept up in the air by the most capricious winds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inappropriate, excessive or capricious administration of aversive stimulation has led to scandals, lawsuits and prohibitions.
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If this object can be successfully attained, then the proper means for the intellectual improvement of the child are secured; but as long as it is awanting, his mental cultivation is either left to chance, or to the capricious decision of his own will; -- for experience shews, that although a child may be compelled to read, or to repeat the
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
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And glorious — e'en though thou capricious king, —
The Lake of Geneva
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Now, there was a dissent, and it says that -- in the dissent, it says that this, in fact, could be capricious, that this, in fact, could be a school policy that is maladministered, but the decision by a 5-4 ruling is that school boards will be allowed to put in policies that will allow drug testing for all extracurricular activities.
CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2002
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Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers.
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Surplice sat down gracefully and lightly on one of our beds, taking extreme care not to strain the somewhat capricious mechanism thereof; sat very proudly; erect; modest but unfearful.
The Enormous Room
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He said at the time that the process it used for selecting films was ‘capricious, shallow, unconsidered and contradictory’.
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In “Thoroughbreds and Blackguards,” Burnaugh argues that the sport’s great competitive impediment, and the temptation that renders it uniquely capricious, is the influence of gambling.
The Sport of Kings
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Neither has the tsunami anything in common with God's final judgement, as the tsunami killed and destroyed capriciously, without rhyme or reason.
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To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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This fancy-sickness -- for it appears to be nothing else -- naturally renders him somewhat capricious and fantastical, "unstaid and skittish in his motions"; and, but for the exquisite poetry which it inspires him to utter, would rather excite our mirth than enlist our sympathy.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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In fact, it was only by a capricious and wondrous synchronicity that the two individuals there on the strand, buffeted by the Gaelic wind, knew each other at all, brought together by a coincidence of events that pivoted entirely upon the very humble Liparis liparis, otherwise known as the common sea snail.
Soul
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This was not about a capricious horse.
Times, Sunday Times
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A man should exercise an almost boundless toleration and placability, because if he is capricious enough to refuse to forgive a single individual for the meanness or evil that lies at his door, it is doing the rest of the world a quite unmerited honour.
On Human Nature
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Her character is weak and Steinbeck characterized her as an archetypical child, both capricious and malleable.
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To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Art is not dignified by being called whimsical -- or capricious.
Albert Durer
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In the long term they are probably right; too many of the acts of the senate over the years have been pig-headed, wilful and capricious and simply cannot be justified in a modern democracy.
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They disciplined and discharged employees as they saw fit, with employees enjoying few protections from arbitrary and capricious treatment.
Human Resource Management in Government
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Not more surprised than alarmed, China Aster thought of taking steamboat to go and see Orchis, but he was saved that expense by the unexpected arrival in Marietta of Orchis in person, suddenly called there by that strange kind of capriciousness lately characterizing him.
The Confidence-Man
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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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The brightest spot in their character is an abnormal development of adhesiveness, popularly called affection; it is somewhat tempered by capricious ruffianism, as in children; yet it entitles them to the gratítude of travellers.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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She was clearly enduring a harsher existence than she had been used to in Misenum—a capricious life, the life of a slave, determined not so much by the status itself as by the character of the master: Lucullus would not even have noticed she existed.
CONSPIRATA
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In using the police power in this broad way, municipalities can avoid charges of arbitrary and capricious acts.
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This was not about a capricious horse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Itself a capricious act, it was only one of several questionable departures.
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The mercurial singer-songwriter's mood is as unpredictable as Halifax weather and each night's performance lives and dies on which attitude the capricious star brings to the rink.
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They disciplined and discharged employees as they saw fit, with employees enjoying few protections from arbitrary and capricious treatment.
Human Resource Management in Government
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It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
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It's an amusing idea, that even the harbingers of capitalism are subject to the ever-changing moods of capricious Mother Nature.
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Therefore the world of nature is no longer seen as populated by capricious supernatural beings, by fates and furies, dryads and naiads, gods of war or goddesses of sex and fertility.
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His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles.
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The emotional goal was to eliminate vagarious, capricious, out-of-touch control by the powerful past presidents.
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The FDA, for instance, will capriciously change its rules in the middle of an expensive clinical trial, suddenly telling a company that it must add thousands of new patients to the tests.
Fact And Comment
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Georgia, the Supreme Court temporarily ended the death penalty in America, deeming its application arbitrary and capricious.
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I have just left Augereau, who was vomiting fire and fury against what he calls your capricious proclamations.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious
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We have small, spiteful, capricious weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both masters and men moreover chose to depict women as wilful and capricious.
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Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
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Jeunet made the capricious Amélie with her in 2001, and ‘capricious’ is the only word for a movie that itself strained to wed the serendipity of surrealism to the earthliness of affinity.
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We are all fragile, kept up in the air by the most capricious winds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a cruel and capricious tyrant.
