Sentence examples for as whim from inspiring English sources

Typically, when reading for pleasure alone, I select books as whim dictates.

Bagehot's view is that they are at least as good a motive as many others, such as whim and inherited prejudice.

My great-grand-aunt Maritcha Lyons referred to the behavior of whites as "whim," so following her lead I've called it the rule of whimsy.

The flâneur, according to Le Robert, is an artist of impressions, circumnavigating the city as whim dictates, giving himself (or herself) over to the "spectacle of the moment".

Part of a nine-item menu of sfizi (roughly translated as whim or craving), they were one of three standouts sampled; the others were ceci bean salad with mint, parsley and lemon and zucchini with garlic and toasted bread crumbs.

Living life in the '60s as a series of Kerouacian road trips, Mr. Stone and his wife, Janice, moved from city to city, country to country, as whim and work dictated, and in retracing his peregrinations in this volume he gives us a magical mystery tour of the places that would form the backdrops for his novels.

There are many who would view some decisions made by the courts as whims.

Mr. Plant has spent decades as a lead singer, wailing across arenas as Led Zeppelin's golden-haired belter and, since then, improvising at whim as the front man for his own bands.

Commissioner David Stern can't just dropkick Kwame Brown out of the league on a whim (as much as I'm sure he'd like to and as much as Brown probably deserves it).

It's as if Al Qaeda had been suddenly rendered as anachronistic as dictatorial whim and official State Department Middle East policy.

The app preserves the most distinctive part of Whim — as soon as two people show interest in each other, the app tries to set them up on a date, no messaging required.