It can be very heady (as anyone who's every been in a dense crowd, football, concert, political, will know) and also quite capricious.
Schufa is not an open algorithm, and so important financial decisions are mediated by an unknown process that can be quite capricious in its scoring.
It was not quite darkness at noon, but it warned us how capricious the desert can be.
For all their undoubted machismo, some of these dabbled in quite camp prose, imbued with a sense of polar nature as cruel and capricious, the will of an unforgiving god, or imperious goddess.
They think it is vast, remote and lucky as in "the lucky country", meaning blessed with natural resources and therefore in fact "unlucky", because resources diminish the incentive to specialise in less capricious sources of wealth.But Australia's true strengths are quite the opposite.
"You should get the feeling that no one quite knows if they're safe or not, from whims of this magnetic but capricious king.
Officials worried about this capricious system and an over-reliance on Russia, but quality was not quite good enough for a big push into Western markets.
Or toward Eris, the capricious god of Chaos (Michelle Pfeiffer), whose need to stir up trouble is not quite as grand as "Sinbad" requires.
Or toward Eris, the capricious goddess of Chaos (Ms. Pfeiffer), whose need to stir up trouble isn't quite as grandiose as "Sinbad" requires.
Benedict Nightingale is not quite won over, although he hardly puts the boot in, merely quibbling that Friel lacks "the capricious, mercurial, emotionally dangerous quality Holly needs".
Quite often these cultures had supernatural explanations for bad events (e.g., demons, imps, mischievous and capricious gods), and it is almost universally believed that the afterlife will be different for evildoers and the virtuous.
