But when I did see him, his behavior with me -- playful, sometimes cruel, a voice of utterly inconsistent and capricious authority -- confirmed my uneasiness, my ever-growing sense of being an imposter, outside life's laws".
But this battle between little people and capricious authority does not fully capture Mr. Mo's books — not his first novel, "Red Sorghum" (made into a movie by Zhang Yimou), nor his more recent "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out," a sweeping portrayal of his country since Mao Zedong's 1949 seizure of power, which a New York Times reviewer called "wildly visionary and creative".
Establish Brazil and its rivals will do this for foreign clients, but only until a local manager has been appointed, or an expatriate has arrived on a permanent business visa.The snag is that acting for a foreign firm leaves agents vulnerable to Brazil's capricious tax authorities and labour courts, which tend to ignore limited liability and pursue individual owners.
Capricious taxation and unpredictable authorities add to the problem of a malfunctioning justice system, with long delays and inefficient procedures.
He said Jock's behaviour in prison had been "exemplary under extreme provocation" and he accused Bulgarian authorities of being "capricious" and "vindictive".
I am thoughtful and wise and know best what to do, but my capricious body possesses the power and final authority, and I must tiptoe round its whims.
After years caught among the conflicting and sometimes capricious bureaucracies of Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, she said she was tempering her expectations.
"Because the rule is within the agency's statutory authority and is neither arbitrary nor capricious, the petition for review is denied," Judge Merrick Garland wrote in the opinion.
A bedside modulated by a trained and experienced critical physician with a jurisdictional authority to 'say no' to demands for capricious treatment not supported by evidence-based clinical literature [ 27, 28].
James MacGregor Burns tilted a notch toward neutrality in the matter, writing in 1970 that Roosevelt was "a deeply divided man," at once "the man of principle" and "the man of... narrow, manageable, short-run goals, intent always on protecting his power and authority in a world of shifting moods and capricious fortune".
It stars two young women, Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová, as virtual twins whose surrealistically capricious exploits were as much of an audacious twitting of Soviet-dominated authority as Chytilová's exuberant, freewheeling way of filming them.
