Sentence examples for capricious to from inspiring English sources
Perhaps it was capricious to combine the family road trip with that most couple-y of activities, wine travel.
And critics have been quick to point out that it is also arbitrary and capricious to take everyone off death row, even those who are clearly guilty.
"It would be capricious to come in and say, gee, I've got to change it just because there is a change in administration," he said.
The most important among them is that experience and history are too fragmented, too elusive, too capricious to sit still for our feeble attempts to impose coherence on them, and that to approach them in nonlinear, collagelike fashion is to reproduce their complexity and to get to their truth.
First, there is the argument from caprice, which maintains that our actual practice of selection is too capricious to have any real basis.
I hear adjuncts' stories from around the country, and there's another big reason people who love teaching have to escape: their colleagues, who can be anything from capricious to spiteful.
U.S.- and U.K.-based luxury tour operators have jumped to work with capricious governments to accommodate travelers who are seeking ever-more-exotic destinations and are willing to pay a premium for giving up safe drinking water and reliable plumbing.
Thrifty to a fault when it came to business expenses, he enjoyed making big, capricious donations to friends in need, and to good causes.
Courts hold agencies to the "arbitrary and capricious" standard: to rescind a regulation, they must demonstrate sound reasoning tied to a factual record.
Ms Boo blames "government priorities and market imperatives," which "create a world so capricious that to help a neighbour is to risk your ability to feed your family".
Conductor Grant Llewellyn sustained the long span of the work from the opening Maestoso, where a slow lamenting tread periodically breaks into anguished outbursts, through the exuberant and capricious scherzo to the final return to the inescapable fact of death.
