Sentence examples for Christmas whim from inspiring English sources

The centre says it took the decision to avoid people getting dogs on a Christmas whim and then rejecting them.

To determine whether WHIM items are in the correct hierarchical order, we conducted an item-level pooled analysis of all 1668 WHIM ratings.

Our pooled analysis of item frequency observed in all 1668 WHIM assessments, confirmed that the WHIM could potentially be used to categorise patients into the different PDOC subgroups, but that some reordering was required.

Across the whole sample, a total of 1668 individual WHIM assessments were recorded 336 in patients who were discharged in a vegetative state; 792 in patients discharged in a minimally conscious state (309 in MCS− and 483 in MCS+); and 540 in patients who emerged.

Among his award-winning fiction are Capricci italiani (1952; Italian Whims) and Un gatto attraversa la strada (1955; A Cat Crossing the Street; winner of the Strega Prize).

'MOSAIC SELECT: PAUL CHAMBERS' -- (Mosaic, three CD's, $39) John Coltrane presented some early examples of his composing on a Paul Chambers album from 1956 called "Whims of Chambers," made when they were bandmates in Miles Davis's quintet and preserved here.

Last minute whims take over.

Yet you expect an entire industry to bow down to your every whim — today music on computers, tomorrow on microwaves, the next day on satellites whooshing through space — if you won't buy their bits of plastic.

True: the name "Zaire," which is said to be an antique Portuguese bastardization of a local word for "river," had been imposed on the country in 1971 at the whim of Mobutu, who had seized power six years earlier....The Congo itself was invented as a country in 1885 at a conference table in Berlin, where European leaders had gathered to parcel up the map of Africa.

Then, last week, on a whim, his number was dialed again.

I CAME to New York University in 1987 on a whim.