Sentence examples for a capricious thing from inspiring English sources
Posterity is a capricious thing.
Fame can be a capricious thing, for any kind of beast.
I'm sure, though, that once it realises that, in an affluent country that isn't actually being physically occupied by a hostile foreign foe, enthusiasm for self-determination is a fragile and capricious thing: it won't last for ever.
The religiousness of this country's social conservatives is a selective, capricious, hypocritical thing.
About the word maggot, Mr. Muldoon said in a recent interview, "We think of it as that little grub or pupa of the fly, but it also refers to a couple of other things: a capricious, whimsical thought, a piece of music — a dance tune usually".
But, perplexingly, the mainstream art world's appreciation of contemporary ceramics remains a capricious, on-and-off, up-and-down thing — even when, as now, it seems to be in on/up mode.
Her widowing and the mood of a capricious time were not of consequence, no more than a flicker in a scheme of things that had always been there.
It's a capricious process.
History, however, can be a capricious mistress.
"This law is not a capricious law.
