Use "capricious" in a sentence

1. Indeed, in any party there is always one person who acts as a leader, although nobody can actually explain the reason why: in general, these persons are egocentric, frivolous and capricious

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2. capricious and malevolent with the majority of people

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3. if he is so capricious, what should our behaviour be like

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4. The most capricious of all Gods, he’d bring joy one minute, sheer terror the next:

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5. They would still, therefore, keep possession of the home market; and though a capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares, merely because they were foreign, to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home, this folly could, from the nature of things, extend to so few, that it could make no sensible impression upon the general employment of the people

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6. The capricious ambition of kings and ministers has not, during the present and the preceding century, been more fatal to the repose of Europe, than the impertinent jealousy of merchants and manufacturers

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7. An individual should never feel overly confident or complacent (over) his or her (―own‖) good fortune, but stand guard, rather, (over) its capricious designs

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8. They all understood, whatever their religious beliefs, including those who were not religious at all, for that matter, the inestimable value that religious principles imparted on the spiritual vitality of well-ordered society mindful of its eternal origins; and that true Wisdom was destined to achieve its loftiest expression(s) in the highest moral offices that properly instruct the Conscience of Men lest they fall prey to Tyranny or other capricious designs

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9. This procedure must remain wary, however, of arbitrary or capricious designs whenever, for example, civilian populations are (unintentionally) killed or property destroyed (collateral damage) that oftentimes occurs during times of war yet are properly understood (or should be) as contingencies of war whose (untimely) deaths or destruction otherwise fail to meet the standards of (purposeful) criminal intent

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10. Such thinking oftentimes resonates with radical religious viewpoints that have influenced Christian thinking in recent years; that is to say, have willfully misinterpreted the teachings of Christ in order to promote capricious notions of ―social justice‖ and other ―progressive‖ causes

11. “subterraneous cathedral” with its capricious and dazzling formations of columns and drenches, stalactites and stalagmites that spread out in glorious disorder and make of that labyrinth a true fairy landscape

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12. It sounded as if the machine had let out a small chuckle as it ended its phrase, but Hilderich felt one could never be sure of the capricious machine

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13. He only hoped Amonas was indeed alive, and he had not been deceived by the capricious machine

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14. As a last resort, feeling it was the only thing he could do, powerless to act and indeed depended on an erratic, capricious and strange machine, he prayed to any and all that would heed his prayers

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15. And Man’s long-term insistence that part of his God’s nature was the capricious examples of it in the natural realm that Man had to contend with, was part of the confusion that Man himself had ritualized into his incorrect understanding, as was also indicated in Job’s story, that had led Man away from God’s real purpose concerning him

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16. Then as he tried to see its likeness in the forces of nature this duality was extended to these gods who were many times seen as capricious and needed sacrificial offerings to assuage the bad or evil side of their natures

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17. He can be so capricious, so it was all very fitting that he started it off

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18. The road occasionally left the river because of very marshy areas or to avoid some of the river’s more capricious meanderings

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19. He whimsical put forward a lot of plans at any time, the split-second in turn negative, capricious

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20. This removes the notion of arbitrary results of capricious and totally unpredictable fate – or of living in a Kafkaesque world where life occurrences and situations are totally bewildering, bizarre, or illogical

21. capricious whim of a playful deity, but the expression of an ab-

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22. a growing hatred of winter and all it’s various capricious

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23. ” This legal conception served in many cases as a license for the capricious extortion of money from Jews…

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24. And lawyers will tell you the commonly used, two-word legal phrases applied to claims considered excessive or frivolous are “arbitrary and capricious,” for which they are “shocked and appalled

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25. To lose it to one man's capricious whim was not a pleasant experience

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26. She is capricious and conceited

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27. capricious where Rochelle was concerned

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28. I had mentally calculated all the variables, as well as the capricious non-variables

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29. working, Stokes was capricious, reckless, and oftentimes on a quest for

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30. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious

31. “There is nothing capricious in nature

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32. If you are willing to give in to the capricious spirit of the Enfield – he, not you, guides the journey – it will prove to be an enjoyable vehicle

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33. ” Yet another says, “A soon as man begins to obey whim of a capricious woman, God throws him in hell

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34. Endlessly reacting simply to the exigencies of the immediate now, either as emergency crisis response or as entrepreneurs capitalizing on panic, is to suffer under the capricious dictates of the tyrants that presently dominate is

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35. A variety of dishes overworks the stomach, induces capricious appetite and

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36. "I'll have a talk with him as soon as he gets over his capricious phase

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37. "Hafiz, do you honestly love me? Or are you just being capricious because you lost something that you've taken for granted all this time?" She interrogated

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38. “The pleasure is all mine, my capricious friend

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39. Mohini, ever capricious and deadly

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40. To spell it plainly, if crudely, my erections were becoming temperamental and capricious, not always reliable

41. Simply because they were afraid of losing any more market share than they already had by their mistaken campaign to change a successful product that has stood the test of the capricious consumer market for over 50 years

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42. What Pyotr Petrovitch writes in this letter and what you and I have supposed may be mistaken, but you can't imagine, Dmitri Prokofitch, how moody and, so to say, capricious he is

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43. Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves, Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,

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44. Here one curses her and calls her capricious, fickle, and

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45. She felt excited and strange, and not knowing what else to do, followed a capricious impulse, and, withdrawing her hands, said petulantly, "I don't choose

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46. Old Hannah never wearied of concocting dainty dishes to tempt a capricious appetite, dropping tears as she worked, and from across the sea came little gifts and cheerful letters, seeming to bring breaths of warmth and fragrance from lands that know no winter

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47. Beside his taste for the fine arts, which Luigi had carried as far as he could in his solitude, he was given to alternating fits of sadness and enthusiasm, was often angry and capricious, and always sarcastic

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48. I am a very capricious being, and I should tell you that sometimes when I rise, or after my dinner, or in the middle of the night, I resolve on starting for some particular point, and away I go

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49. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me

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50. ' So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty

51. "Doubtless he is capricious, but that is all; one thing alone struck me,—of all the exquisite

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52. She took her mother's hand in both her own, and gazed into her eyes with an earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character

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53. As they stared blankly in dumb misery deepening as they slowly realised all they had seen and all they had lost, a capricious little breeze, dancing up from the surface of the water, tossed the aspens, shook the dewy roses and blew lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its soft touch came instant oblivion

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54. One circle was her husband’s government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata

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55. Although Rohsail had adapted far better to the realities of the reformed Dohlaran Navy than Thirsk had once believed would have been possible, he remained rebellious where many of Thirsk’s reforms—primarily those relating to the discipline of enlisted personnel and the earl’s prohibition of capricious use of flogging and the cat—were concerned, and no one would ever mistake him for a Thirsk partisan

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56. "Do you not think you are just a wee bit capricious, fitful, Tess?" he said, good-humouredly, as he spread a cushion for her on the stool, and seated himself in the settle beside her

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57. "It is this," he continued, with capricious compunction

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58. Your sex is capricious, you know

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59. Casaubon had been deprived of that superiority (as anything more than a remembrance) in a sudden, capricious manner

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60. They say Fortune is a woman and capricious

61. Emma was growing difficult, capricious

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62. This is capricious and random behavior on the part of the regulators

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63. The market is a capricious teacher

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64. Grief is both a stern Mistress and a capricious one

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65. And so we sail’d southward to go Slaving, in the Grip of a capricious Master, who us’d us more as Boys than Women, as Jakes or Close-Stools rather than Human Beings

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66. A note on orthography: Eighteenth-century buffs will know, of course, that capitalization and spelling were highly capricious in that age, and only beginning to be standardized at a later date

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67. OPMI stock markets tend to be rather capricious, and certain sections of OPMI markets tend to be even more volatile than others

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68. Probably most important, most activist managers properly believe that OPMI markets are capricious in terms of (1) pricing at any given time versus business value and (2) the availability of OPMI markets as a source of new equity capital on a reliable basis

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69. This occurs at the all-too-frequent times when private markets freeze up because these markets, for these purposes, are notoriously capricious and grossly inefficient

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70. It is thus, in fact, that the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right

71. The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, "for an idea," and on their own account

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72. The crest of this ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very capricious line

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73. She wanted to tell Arthur that he should try acting with the capricious Olivier and see how that worked out for him, and she would sit on the sidelines and write about it, but “I don’t have the nerve

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74. Could this have happened? Were these people just that capricious and, dare it be said, foolish? Well, actually, in many ways, they were… but, that said, it simply doesn’t appear to be true

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75. He said I was a capricious witch, and that he

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76. The most capricious incident of short selling during the 1920s bull market came from a speculative group of bankers in Flint, Michigan, at the Union Industrial Bank

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77. For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable—they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness—and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash

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78. Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works

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79. For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary duties:—repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the shape of clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bull's eyes in the deck, or new tree-nails in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more directly pertaining to his special business; he was moreover unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both useful and capricious

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80. One circle was her husband's government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata

81. The man of higher education and culture, pursuing higher ideas, sometimes loses sight of reality altogether becomes ridiculous, capricious and cold, and indeed I may say stupid, not only in practical life but in theory

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82. But with capricious annoyance he interrupted me

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83. And mamma is capricious and tearful and insane! And now I can get a servant with this money, you understand, Alexey Fyodorovitch, I can get medicines for the dear creatures, I can send my student to Petersburg, I can buy beef, I can feed them properly

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84. As a rule he was very willful, even capricious, though always friendly

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85. All of us knew that the prosecutor received Mitya against his will, solely because he had somehow interested his wife—a lady of the highest virtue and moral worth, but fanciful, capricious, and fond of opposing her husband, especially in trifles

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86. Yet upon the black also—the antithesis of the red—no experienced gambler would stake anything, for the reason that every practised player knows the meaning of "capricious fortune

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87. His nervous irritability went so far that he was as capricious as a child; a temperament of that kind was too much for me there, so I soon saw as little of B—ski as I could possibly help, though I never ceased to like him much

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88. She was as capricious as ever in the choice of her acquaintances, and admitted few into her narrow circle

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89. She did it, I know, from sheer mischief, to spite her mother, for she is a naughty, capricious girl, a real spoiled child spiteful and mischievous to a degree! And then Alexandra wanted to shave her head, not from caprice or mischief, but, like a little fool, simply because Aglaya persuaded her she would sleep better without her hair, and not suffer from headache! And how many suitors have they not had during the last five years! Excellent offers, too! What more do they want? Why don’t they get married? For no other reason than to vex their mother—none—none!”

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