Sentence examples for an arbitrary succession of from inspiring English sources

He considers with pity the case of Vladimir Nabokov, who famously said he experienced music merely as "an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds"; he also wonders about how little music is mentioned in Henry James's work.

He quotes Nabokov's autobiography Speak, Memory: "Music, I regret to say, affects me as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds … The concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones".

First, it has often been supposed that, if the belief in an overall pattern is abandoned, one is obliged to acquiesce in the view that the historical process consists of no more than an arbitrary succession of occurrences, a mere agglomeration or patchwork of random incidents and episodes.

How he managed to memorize music that seems such a succession of arbitrary ideas is beyond me.

Cancer arises through a catastrophic event as a result of a succession of randomly occurring mutations.

It's an arbitrary period of celebration.

Again, I imposed an arbitrary set of rules.

Yet Neville was stuck with an arbitrary crew of misfits.

"What is 3+2?" is just an arbitrary string of characters, and "5" is just one more arbitrary character.

Or just an arbitrary semblance of reality?

Consider an arbitrary state of a system and an arbitrary observable Q.