Sentence examples for arbitrary succession 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.
Although the homicide was never solved, there was no doubt that it came in the midst of a buildup of tension in the PRI because of the arbitrary method of the succession.
American politics at the moment is dominated by a succession of arcane, convoluted and arbitrary ceremonies performed by fakirs and zealots, fervently intoning the catechisms of long-dead sages, apparently unconcerned that they are bringing the real tasks of government to a disastrous standstill.
It can describe successions of power-law decays, with arbitrary decreasing values of the scattering exponents, and interleaved by regions of constant intensity.
On the receiving end, disabled and older people talk of a succession of anonymous strangers coming through their door, arbitrary restrictions on the tasks they are allowed to do and the lack of respect, privacy, dignity and kindness in the way such work is carried out.
It's not that we've had a succession of particularly bad years, 12-month periods of arbitrary and abstract time colluding among themselves to ruin things for everyone else.
