Sentence examples for whim city from inspiring English sources

"This rate increase is just further proof that Con Edison abuses and overcharges New Yorkers on a whim," City Councilman Eric N. Gioia, a Queens Democrat who has been a persistent critic of the utility, said today.

As Mr. Max rounds a corner, he gives an absent-minded pat to the purple head of a member of the herd he painted, at Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's whim, for the city's millennial cow parade.

Anyone who reads Barthes on the myth of steak frites, or the recipes in nineteen-fifties Elle magazines — "A peasant dish is admitted only on occasion as the rustic whim of blasé city folk" — will immediately understand that the American professor is one more dupe of a consumer mentality that leads us to haplessly confuse our gastronomic, religious, and intellectual experiences of other cultures.

Anyone who reads Barthes on the myth of steak frites, or the recipes in nineteen-fifties Elle magazines—"A peasant dish is admitted only on occasion as the rustic whim of blasé city folk"—will immediately understand that the American professor is one more dupe of a consumer mentality that leads us to haplessly confuse our gastronomic, religious, and intellectual experiences of other cultures.

A balder metaphor for kowtowing to the whims of The City you will never see.

In 2015, the hated gong was bestowed on one of the most visible eyesores around, a building that stands as both a diagram of greed and the whims of the City of London's planning system.

Soaring over the skyline like a broad-shouldered banker, the building flares outwards so that its biggest floors can be sited at the priciest upper levels: a monument to the logic of the office rental market and the peculiar whims of the City planning authority.

At its core is the question of whether the department's loathed bureaucracy would function better if it were overseen by a management team independent from the whims of the city's elected leaders.

The flâneur, according to Le Robert, is an artist of impressions, circumnavigating the city as whim dictates, giving himself (or herself) over to the "spectacle of the moment".

Grabbing a cab with minimal hassle and then gliding through the city on a whim is what you might call the Optimal Taxi Experience, the O.T.E.

You drive a cab, wafted across the city on the whims of your fares.