This, combined with the capricious desire in nearly every feminine heart for a white wedding, has led to this one firm hiring out during what is probably known as the peak nuptial season, several hundred wedding dresses a week.
It is a mutual seduction, however, as Deidre describes it: "Monsieur gave in to the most capricious of my desires, which became, therefore, increasingly capricious".
'Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.' Madeleine de Scudéry, 17th century Daphnis and Chloe, Abelard and Héloise, Troilus and Cressida, Tristram and Ysolde... these are the lovers with challenging names who linger forever at the backs of our minds, even if the particulars of their stories some times escape us.
The question also seems to have informed Fearnley-Whittingstall's winningly capricious life, the way his desire to know more about what he was eating led him to experiment with one animal, then a dozen, then a farm, then a bigger farm, without any sense of limits.
If Republicans support this unconstitutional power grab, they will have completed their transformation from the party of Reagan — a party devoted to conservative principles — to the party of Trump — a party devoted to no principle other than a desperate desire to propitiate a capricious would-be tyrant in the White House.
It is a testament to the players' desire, the scouts' instincts or the capricious nature of relief pitching.
But, in reality, the law, and those who use and abuse it, can also be a capricious dominatrix, interpreted with as much flux as any carnal desires.
Critics claim that juries determine punitive damages in a capricious and arbitrary manner, that juries are unable to translate their punishment desires into dollar figures consistently and fairly, and that juries consider legally inappropriate factors.
The juxtapositions can be apt, capricious, or jarring, but a quirky, sometimes perverse connoisseurship is more apparent than desire, however you define it.
