Sentence examples for capricious idea from inspiring English sources

In a statement, she said abolishing the residency requirement would be a "direct threat" to the city's middle class and Chico's "dangerous and capricious" idea would lead to a "mass exodus" of city employees.

This knot is the spirals' opposite, a symbol of capricious and nonlinear ideas.

In this manner, the "capricious and uncertain" ideas of the vulgar give way to "the more general and authentic operations of the understanding" and the superior judgments of the wise (T, 150).

Now and then, the capricious cacophony of my mind still amazes me: all those thoughts and worries and ideas and fears swirling around in there.

I want to give the lovely ladies an idea of how ephemeral and capricious the term "beauty" is.

He said it was an irrational idea, "but it is also divisive, capricious and arbitrary".

Others thought him too capricious.

This dilemma must be still more acute for Terry Eagleton, whose idea of God is not even Yahweh, the capricious, meddling reality of the Hebrew Bible, but an aristocratic philosophical vapor.

Whewell described Kepler's discovery, which seems so "capricious and fanciful" as actually being "regulated" by his "clear scientific ideas" (1857/1873, I, 291 2).

Last night, as we scrambled into "Its Complicated," my stylish friend, interior designer to the capricious fashion world ( you can hire her at www.pomasteven.com) blurted out a brilliant idea.

Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?