Sentence examples for capricious value from inspiring English sources
They were originally conceived, she explained, as a Marxist critique of a capricious value system — consumer capitalism, including the consumerism of the art world.
The ship's captain, Patrick Campbell, was a capricious authoritarian, who took at face value allegations that some of his onboard reformers were set on fomenting mutiny.
Well, anyone who wants their values secured by something beyond the capricious human world had better join an old-fashioned religion.
"Sometimes the [CEO or founder] is a bad listener, or doesn't value the team's feedback, or their decision-making is capricious," says the VC who asked not to be named.
There is no "true value" for any object: it's always a construct, provisionally defined by a capricious market and the locality of the transaction.
A capricious, somewhat unstable individual, Paul had a passion for military order that conflicted with the basic values of the developing civil society; he felt that the nobility should again become a service class (or withdraw completely into agriculture) and help the ruler in implementing his reform program, even at the expense of its private interests.
Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
"It's almost capricious".
The casting is capricious.
Prices will be "capricious".
