Sentence examples for capricious event from inspiring English sources
In addition, of course, this is a capricious event, infused with its own peculiar variables.
It follows from this that we cannot establish that a miracle has occurred by showing only that the laws of nature have been violated, as this may only be a chance or capricious event (EU, 8.25/96; cp. T, 1.3.13.33/171).
Tornadoes are extremely capricious events, and teasing out statistically significant trends from historical records is very difficult.
It is, in a way, a case study in how a curious, even capricious, combination of events can suddenly turn a distant, nearly forgotten conflict into a burning issue in Washington's eyes.
The latest round of news media accounts on the tumultuous final hours of the wall have emphasized not some sense of historical inevitability driven by economics and geopolitics, but rather the capricious human side of the event.
These fantastic celestial events are not capricious; they are operating on a precise timetable ad with specificity that eclipses the most talented flight scheduler or soufflé chef.
But in taking over management, he assumes the financial risk of staging a roughly $10 million annual event that is vulnerable to capricious weather and is hemmed in, in many respects, by its unique setting on National Park Service land.
Quite often these cultures had supernatural explanations for bad events (e.g., demons, imps, mischievous and capricious gods), and it is almost universally believed that the afterlife will be different for evildoers and the virtuous.
5 Caesar was informed of these events; and fearing the fickleness of the Gauls, because they are capricious in forming designs and intent for the most part on change, he considered that no trust should be reposed in them.
Major events are repeated in each version of the story, filtered by either faithful Irina or capricious Irina.
The characters of Julius Caesar variously interpret the great event of the assassination of Caesar as one in which the gods are angry or disinterested or capricious or simply not there.
