Sentence examples for capricious thing from inspiring English sources

Posterity is a capricious thing.

Fame can be a capricious thing, for any kind of beast.

I'm sure, though, that once it realises that, in an affluent country that isn't actually being physically occupied by a hostile foreign foe, enthusiasm for self-determination is a fragile and capricious thing: it won't last for ever.

The religiousness of this country's social conservatives is a selective, capricious, hypocritical thing.

Last month, Morales said that if women weren't such "capricious little things," they would run Bolivia because they are more honest and hardworking than men.

It couldn't really be called capricious because all things obey the laws according to which they were created, but when a thing is as small as she was, literally off the scale (when, that is, it exists on a plane that is prior to measurement), there's no predicting which way it will go, or when.

The choice of the victim was, in the normal run of things, capricious.

The weather is capricious and it knows things that we don't.

Mr. Freston's company, MTV Networks, is built around catering to the young, an audience whose taste in all things is capricious.

About the word maggot, Mr. Muldoon said in a recent interview, "We think of it as that little grub or pupa of the fly, but it also refers to a couple of other things: a capricious, whimsical thought, a piece of music — a dance tune usually".

She had not been married to Henry long enough then to be out of the notion of herself as a spoiled young thing, cherished and capricious.