Sentence examples for whim from inspiring English sources

He describes the latter as "an incurious 'presentism' – combining a lack of historical sense, a pervasive contempt for the wisdom of the past, a fascination with novelty simply because it is new and a propensity to over-react to every ephemeral focus group finding or tabloid whim".

Location changes dreamlike, at whim; we are either in a mushroomy field in gorgeous countryside, or a Parisian room, or by a seashore or a graveyard.

The viewer is also treated to Blackadder Christmases past, including a burst of Miranda Richardson as Queenie, sentencing courtiers to death on a festive whim, and Hugh Laurie's fat-headed Prince George losing all his Christmas presents to a sweet old lady collecting for charity.

Kazantip, which calls itself a 'paradise rave republic', moves around Ukraine every year at the whim of its founder, a shadowy figure in his early forties called Nikita Marshunok, who styles himself President of Kazantip.

They are conscious of the need to expand their ground but they will not make decisions on a whim.

When you could download work on a millisecond's whim, there was no bond established.

But the idea that a great nation such as Spain – for whose freedom friends of my parents fought and died – should be brought to its knees on the whim of a bunch of overpaid executives looking at computer screens is just outrageous.

"When we met him he was still at drama school, he'd had no professional experience, no agent … he went to Juilliard on a whim, really.

This is not an impulse or a whim.

Though the team eventually settled into their whim, the costs caught up to them early.

There is obviously something to this thought – except that the practical success of the union has often depended on a credible delegation of power to political, administrative and legal bodies that were not at the whim of politicians keeping an eye on the next election (or the closest lobbyists).