Bright red, prone to capricious scheduling, usually packed and generally Darwinian in the demands it makes of its passengers, the double-decker has retained pretty much the same place in the national soul as Flanders and Swann assigned to it: quirky, annoying, beloved, necessary and somehow worth every penny of the fare.
For two-income couples, with mismatched schedules and the capricious pulls of children and aging parents, what an opportunity a morning walk can be for confiding.
The creative muse is capricious, and inspiration is rarely scheduled.
In fact, for the previous 10 days I'd been delighted by the capricious whims of bus and ferry schedules.
If you were a child growing up in China in the late nineteen-eighties, you learned fairly early the universe of things that were less than dependable: hot water, the bus schedule, and, most irritatingly if you were an introverted second grader the capricious offerings of the itinerant book cart.
These concerns were voiced by Justice Milton A. Tingling of State Supreme Court in March, when he struck down the soda ban a day before it was scheduled to go into effect, calling the restrictions "arbitrary and capricious" and an overreach of the Board of Health's power.
Rebecca Eckler writes about falling in love with a "cute single man" while newly pregnant (Modern Love, March 20) as if her emotional response to the gentleman in question was a disturbingly inconvenient event that was, in effect, imposed upon her by capricious Fate -- "if only we could plan falling in love like a scheduled C-section".
The upshot is that after cross-questioning the teenager, the mercurial and capricious head of the Mercury hires Richard to play Brutus's young servant Lucius in the play that is scheduled to open in a week's time.
Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
"It's almost capricious".
