Sentence examples for fleeting whims from inspiring English sources
Handling such governance would not be easy, but already large-scale co-ops and mutuals think REI and Northwestern Mutual do a fairly good job of serving member interests without being toppled by the fleeting whims of the crowd.
Obeying what's good offers a more subtle freedom from the compulsion and dependencies of a life based on fleeting desires and whims.
Such friendships are fleeting: on a whim a party leader can shift the votes of a caste grouping from one alliance to another.
Even when parent friends develop a bond, the resulting friendships can be fleeting — and subject to the whims of the children themselves.
Congratulations: you are a feminist.' " Why is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? "Even when parent friends develop a bond, the resulting friendships can be fleeting — and subject to the whims of the children themselves".
Man, they claim, is subject to their whims: "From Time, ever fleeting, from Fortune's caresses, from Love and its arrows...No mercy from me!" They will render man "weak, wretched and bewildered".
That means issues rise and fall largely at the whim of the press, whose attention span is as fleeting here as in the U.S. Case in point: Just a week before election day, associations representing British school principals and surgeons released dire warnings about the state of the schools and hospitals.
The vacuum state contains, according to quantum mechanics, fleeting electromagnetic waves and virtual particles that pop into and out of existence at a whim.
Her life is upended by a fleeting roadside encounter with Bajram, a roué from the neighboring village who asks for her hand in marriage on what is essentially a whim.
