The challenge is how to kick-start ourselves and name some grand ambition shining there at which we may, albeit briefly, set our caps before throwing those same caps in the capricious air.
In 1967, they began burying the dead in a second graveyard that did have headstones, but the old cemetery today has a capricious air of eerie repose, the hundreds of steel markers like odd industrial blooms augmented by occasional stray headstones paid for by family members.
Or more specifically: In a wireless, microwave, miniaturized, cellular world, can't we at least put power lines underground instead of relying on those perched precariously over suburban roadways and at the mercy of snow, ice, wind, lightning, falling trees and capricious beasts of air and land?
When a player's ball is in the air — and at the mercy of capricious gusts — he is hardly the only one on edge.
About 90 minutes from the car park (I hired a car as Croatian public transport can be capricious), I ate sausages barbecued in the open air and plastered with ajvar, a local aubergine and pepper relish, at a mountain house cafe.
Bottom line: The current system is capricious.
He lived there with Jean Ross, the model for his most famous character, the capricious nightclub singer and aspiring actress Sally Bowles, who captivated him with her "air of not caring a curse what people thought of her".
Romney then suggests Palestinians are culturally inferior, incapable of showing the "economic vitality" of Israel — as if a people under occupation without a port or an airport, controlling neither their territorial nor their air space, facing roadblocks, walls, barriers, fences, labyrinthine bureaucracy and capricious humiliation are somehow deficient in not turning themselves into Singapore.
Miles in the air, there can be no doubt that each of us is at the mercy of technology, a capricious Nature, and another individual (pilots – which is why the thought of "drunk pilots" causes such a panic).
Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
"It's almost capricious".
