Sentence examples for Capricious from inspiring English sources

He said Jock's behaviour in prison had been "exemplary under extreme provocation" and he accused Bulgarian authorities of being "capricious" and "vindictive".

The pitch has largely played well when the sun has been out, becoming capricious only when low cloud has pressed down on the ground.

That memory, like so much else, is now fading in middle age, becoming limited to a means of recalling what I've read, but an otherwise unreliable, even capricious, tool for much else.

Sometimes it can feel that life is not so much capricious as downright cruel.

Now and then, the capricious cacophony of my mind still amazes me: all those thoughts and worries and ideas and fears swirling around in there.

Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.

Spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation movies, John Wayne: all get their salute as the two men change the purpose of their travels from the hunt for profitable criminals to the finding and freeing of Django's wife, who is still enslaved on a Mississippi plantation owned by the capricious Mr Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Meanwhile it has emerged that members of the local community have written to senior civil servants at the MoD about the "capricious and intransigent manner" in which they handled the closure of the barracks before reopening it to house the Libyans.

The west coast of Scotland is a most wondrous place but a capricious mistress, as likely to obscure with a thick pelt of dreich grey as reveal stunning land and seascapes.

If rules are indeed rules, then their application needs to be consistent not capricious.

The fact that a pitch that has seemed docile for four days can suddenly become capricious and ready to be exploited in the last one or two sessions of the final day is one reason why the proposal of the ECB chairman-elect, Colin Graves, that there should be four-day Tests with an increase in overs per day is wide of the mark.