The phrase "a passing whim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fleeting thought or desire that is not serious or lasting.
Example: "She decided to take a spontaneous trip to Paris, but it was just a passing whim that she would soon forget."
Alternatives: "a fleeting fancy" or "a momentary impulse".
Some things are destined for a museum, while others get resold in the parking lot or in a hotel bedroom, or back in Verhoeven's loos, the unlucky and unlikely dupes of a moment's enthusiasm or a passing whim.
Immersing yourself in a particular subject for three years and having the determination to engage in real and sustained independent intellectual struggle requires greater motivation than a passing whim.
Unless the Navy are saying their own teaching methods and personnel are inadequate, that same training goes a long way to substantiating his view and, let us be frank, it seems unlikely McNeilly wrote an 18 page report on the potential for a nuclear disaster, all the while knowing he could face prison, on a passing whim.
By linking issues of gun control to the vague notions of "terrorism" and "reasonable suspicion", Democrats and Republicans have demonstrated that they are willing to accept the status quo of labeling thousands of Americans as "suspected terrorists," regardless of whether the evidence against them is anything more than a passing whim.
"They buy one to make an environmental statement".It remains to be seen if hybrids are a passing whim, and how long their complex transmissions last.
It works so well because the interest is clearly not a passing whim, as the well-judged assemblage of remixers – Shackleton, Orphx, Miles and Deadbeat – suggests.
As everyone knows, Thomas the Tank Engine is the story of several straight white men who solemnly obey the every passing whim of a white, straight, male dictator in a crude reinforcement of the belief that the working class should know its place.
I had assumed he was playing devil's advocate, or it was just a passing teenage whim, but no, he says: these were the values with which he was brought up.
It would be bad enough if he were correct, and it really were that easy for an American president to just will any old passing whim into law.
Laissez-faire is a perfectly appropriate philosophy for markets and democracies, but when it comes to faith, those of us who are proud Catholics understand that the truth about church doctrine comes not from our passing whims and fancies, but from God.Lisa Wolski.
There is plenty in that package that will appeal to voters across the political spectrum, and I believe that we will be respected for not simply letting our policy stance be dictated by the passing whims of the temporary positioning of the other two parties.
