Sentence examples for capricious one from inspiring English sources

The scene was (and still is) fickle and capricious: One place became another as fast as the fake-tit size for wannabe starlets went from D to C. People went to the same five places, depending on their neighborhood.

The Arab felt a little as if it were his star: he wanted to place his mark on it, and in his notes he called it al-Ludra, which in his dialect means "the capricious one".

At Bregenz, he is at his most stompingly rhythmic, and quickwittedly accurate in switching from romantic dances to springily capricious ones.

In fact these whimsies about Mrs Shakespeare, Mrs Wordsworth, Mrs Chaucer et al really are a bit capricious, when one looks at what "significant others" (the phrase Schmidt uses) have actually done.

Like their "Diablo" cousins that incinerated central California's wine country two months back, Southern California's Santa Ana fires are deviously capricious, leaving one home intact in an incinerated block or, conversely, burning down a single house on an otherwise untouched street.

"India is a very capricious environment," one said.

If the IRS or DEA or EPA had been determined by a federal judge to have both violated federal law and acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner, one would think that none of the aforementioned agencies would claim the judge's decision as a "victory".

He said the decision "does raise the spectre of a tremendous -- and tremendously capricious -- one-time transfer of wealth from society at large to those individuals who happen to hold title to large tracts of land at the moment this legal question is permanently resolved".

When I cited Corker's comments that most Republicans at least privately shared the belief that the White House had been turned into an "adult day care" center for its capricious seventy-one-year-old chief resident, Rogers offered his own criticisms of the White House.

The boys have been brought along on one of Marshall's capricious fancies.

The capricious weather caused one soldier to remark, "Gee, do you suppose he really is God, after all?" The British threw a party.