Sentence examples for capricious quality from inspiring English sources

In the introduction to his book "Pictures," published in 2003, Mr. Bridges wrote about his favorite camera: The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality.

Golfing form can be a capricious character.

Quality child care can be hard to come by anywhere, and I'm sure that it's even worse in a place like Manhattan, but any provider who has an opening and turns away a child whose parents are willing to pay for reasons as arbitrary and capricious as the quality of the parents' writing skills should be ashamed.

Benedict Nightingale is not quite won over, although he hardly puts the boot in, merely quibbling that Friel lacks "the capricious, mercurial, emotionally dangerous quality Holly needs".

Wine prices are also infamously capricious, often decoupled from quality.

Vreeland's superlative achievement may have been the lasting quality of her seemingly capricious pronouncements — which can be seen, read and heard again and again, without losing their juicy vitality.

Officials worried about this capricious system and an over-reliance on Russia, but quality was not quite good enough for a big push into Western markets.

Of course, these curators are neither a guarantee of safety, nor of quality: continuous revelations about malicious software and capricious, inconsistent criteria for evaluating software put the lie to this.

The sharing schemes in CRN differ from the traditional cellular networks channel sharing techniques because of the capricious nature of the spectrum band in space, time, and quality.

Ensuring a consistency of style year-to-year is more important in establishing a reputation for quality than merely trading on something as malleable and capricious as a grape varietal.

And as a rigorous philosopher, he sets about deconstructing, in a few devastating strokes, some of the beliefs that people have held about the "personal" nature of reality.In a world where many of the forces that determine human life seem unpredictable, frightening and capricious, it is natural as Mr Dennett reminds us to attribute personal qualities to those forces.