You might chalk up the move to teenage capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Twitter Quitters] Reference
Such is the capriciousness and whimsy of the World According to W. From Wordnik.com. [FLA-SEN: GOPers Fill Out Details Of Katherine-To-Drop-Out Scenario] Reference
He had noticed that lunatic capriciousness in the Faerie folk too. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
Nor is this capriciousness exclusively the attribute of the poetic Muse. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Advertising agencies frequently bear the brunt of feckless capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Godzillas? The Phantom Threat of PRC Brands] Reference
What offends middle-class Americans, most of us, is economic capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Foreboding] Reference
The Governor should not be allowed to act arbitrarily or with capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally] Reference
Her own upbringing is a lesson on the capriciousness of fate and political power. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Iron Lady] Reference
Leave aside the element of capriciousness in the way criminal justice is meted out. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Solution] Reference
In Ireland, we know only too well the cruelty and capriciousness of violent conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Inauguration Speech] Reference
Teferi moved in close to her, and a hint of his old capriciousness glinted in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
As for diminishing social returns and rising capriciousness, consider the GM-Pena dispute. From Wordnik.com. [The Regulatory Juggernaut] Reference
Once formally installed as president in a 1965 coup, he made capriciousness a political art form. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Mobutu?] Reference
And more than most, it shows the extraordinary capriciousness of fame and oblivion in American letters. From Wordnik.com. [Our Best Writer, Revived Again��� Melville Made Whole at Last] Reference
He persisted in imposing on her his ideas, his artistic passions, even his fantasy, and his capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This, I think, proves the capriciousness of men in public stations in their assignment of titles of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850] Reference
Having shown him her feminine capriciousness, Dov circled back flirtatiously and came to him from the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Valeria, with her wonted capriciousness, veered round in defence of the institution that she had been just jeering at. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
If he remembered anything, it was the dainty capriciousness with which the gold-haired, dark-eyed girl had treated him. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Property] Reference
Who would possibly want to invest in GM or any other government-overseen plans with such capriciousness running rampant?. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Whatley: Grand Theft Automaker] Reference
A hitherto unresponsive wicket is beginning to show signs of capriciousness, and a fascinating denouement is in prospect. From Wordnik.com. [Hampshire set sights on redemptive win over Essex] Reference
She insisted that after her husband's death in 1782, she could scarcely bear his capriciousness and roughness in the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Powers of Dr. Johnson] Reference
Photographer Stanley Greene sees himself as a witness to life, and the pictures he takes as evidence of its capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [GIVING BACK] Reference
"It is only one more example of the capriciousness of rich people," said Paul, as he told the tale to Sally later in the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
The greatest must submit to the capriciousness of fortune; though they can, better than others, improve the favorable moments. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
I cannot bear the sky but life, reality, its capriciousness, randomness, its habits, its fleeting beauty all that I adore. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Genius] Reference
"Sis, you're going off in all directions to no purpose at all," Rojer said, becoming slightly exasperated by her capriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
One valuable purpose is, however, answered thereby; it will exclude the imputation of capriciousness ---- the freakish whim of. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
More tolerable, pagan antiquity suggests, to ascribe our sorrows to capriciousness or outright malice than to dull, cold accident. From Wordnik.com. [Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality] Reference
Although Connecticut and Hollywood are a continent apart, the two events speak volumes about the capriciousness of the blog culture. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Kluger: August 2006: A Memorable Month for Bloggers] Reference
Another of Fornal's intrigues, designed to show the capriciousness of the angels, and how they interfered with the rights of "real" men?. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaos Balance]
Too often Mexico suffers from the capriciousness of U.S. policymakers, who turn their heads south only when it's politically convenient. From Wordnik.com. [Border War] Reference
She did not say that she had not seen Choulette since autumn, and that he neglected her with the capriciousness of a man not in society. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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