Sentence examples for has a whim from inspiring English sources

She has a whim of iron, an almost perverse attraction to sentimentality in its most risible forms.

You graduate when your adviser gets sick of you, needs the space, or has a whim.

Colleagues said he had "a whim of steel".

about Oliver Herford whose wife had a "whim of iron".

I told him more than once that he had a whim of iron, but in the end he always found the mot juste.

"The catalogue enables the ability to have a whim and then act upon it, and that's pretty much my life".

Any one person could have a whim That made counterfeit cash good And he wouldn't be left holding the bag by counterfeiters, ruined, Just the opposite, he'd be rolling in dough.

Known for his meticulously researched and assembled cabaret shows, Mr. Harnar balances the savory wit and boyish yearning of a composer whom he joked had "a whim of iron".

There's no rule equating a Ph.D. with talent or intellect only with exhaustion and poverty but you simply can't become a tenure-track professor at most schools, or a senior scientist at most companies, without a piece of paper affirming that you have indeed festered in a lab until your adviser had a whim.

On December 29 in the year 2005, I had a whim -- why not start a blog about LGBT (I added Q a few years later) issues?

David Martill, a palaeobiologist at Portsmouth University, says the buyer could be "anyone who has a lot of money and a whim to have a dinosaur in their front room".