Sentence examples for arbitrary as a from inspiring English sources

Thursday, seems almost as arbitrary as a smudged sign.

But then realize that getting mad and flipping a coffee table over something that's nearly as arbitrary as a coin flip is silly.

To a citizen with a land dispute or a medical malpractice claim, jurisprudence could seem as arbitrary as a Ouija board's spirit message.

That is part of what can be so worrying about the unfamiliar horse: that one's success at an event one has trained for so diligently can depend on something so arbitrary as a drawing from a bowl.

Napoleon's appearances and reappearances from the Russian front are as arbitrary as a Magritte drawing — and the scene's moral, to the degree that it has one, is the nihilistic one that runs true in comedy from Aristophanes to Sid Caesar: all authority is always ridiculous, and man (and woman) runs by appetite alone.

In the film's totalitarian universe, hotel guests aren't allowed to get together with someone unless they share a "defining characteristic", but that characteristic can be as arbitrary as a slight limp or a fondness for biscuits.

"It's arbitrary as an artistic gesture, but the scientists are actually figuring out a lot of actual cryptography and biology, so it's win-win".

Criticism by those who considered him to be too arbitrary as an administrator resulted in a dispute over control of the college and caused him to resign his bishopric in 1831.

For almost a month Dr. Dennis Rebelo has allotted time each day for his routine 22 pushups in places as arbitrary as an elevator or while playing ball with his dogs.

Patients with higher values than the median were categorized arbitrary as having a hyperflexion, and patients with lower values were categorized as having a hypoflexion.

The notation is just as arbitrary as in an ordinary pen or pencil computation, but the operations have a more mechanical appearance, in that they consist of the bodily motion of certain pieces of matter.