How To Use Capriciousness In A Sentence
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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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Robert Burton threw light on the "capriciousness" and accidentally of this kind of (apparent) amorous preference when he wrote that "it is impossible, almost, for two young folks equal in years to live together and not be in love;" and further he says, sagaciously:
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Recognising the fluidity and occasional capriciousness of perception, Leonardo delighted in it, contriving not only rebuses or visual puns, but also optical illusions and even demonstrations of anamorphosis.
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The Romans, intuitively, seemed to know better, for they named it after the goddess they feared for her vengefulness, capriciousness and cruelty.
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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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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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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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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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And I like to think there's still a little of that capriciousness to my choices.
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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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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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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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But capriciousness, randomness and unexamined biases are not the exception, they are the rule.
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 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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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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Y'know, I'm starting to be concerned at my own capriciousness.
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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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Whether you interpret such behavior as capriciousness or hard-core adventure, enduring it is a price you must occasionally pay.