Sentence examples for individual whim from inspiring English sources

Instead we get Steve's preoccupation with an individual whim (a so-called "proactionary principle").

Instead, beauty is felt to be universal, beyond the reach of time and fashion or individual whim.

The products of computer science make their way in the world and are applied and misapplied according to dynamics of individual whim and collective desire.

Their activities — some of them coalesce like a flash mob, some proceed by individual whim — gently herd the audience, split and scatter it.

No longer did people open the fridge door or make a cup of tea as a matter of individual whim; television immobilised them all for set periods before springing them into life when a programme ended.

"It may be that, as the republican theorists of Ancient Rome and Early Modern England understood, tyranny does not consist in an overly rigid enforcement of the law, but on the replacement of the objective laws of logic by arbitrary laws such as those of the marketplace, individual whim, or mere fiction.

Yes, there were tourists, visible in gaggles as they emerged from platforms and gangplanks or plopped their beach towels on the strand — but most of them dispersed into twining passageways, pursuing their individual whims.

Yet they are an oddity, founded on an individual's whim, with no consultation with governments or institutions, and resting, as the Guardian's Ian Sample puts it, "on the words of a secretive bunch of Scandinavians".

I am unpersuaded by his oft-stated prophecy of a future in which personal, sexual, racial, and all other identities will be masks donned or discarded at an individual's whim.

Medical care is too important to be subject to an individual's whims.

It depends heavily on the individual censor's whims".