Sentence examples for whim material from inspiring English sources

Wilde, who was earning up to £100 a week from his plays (his salary at The Woman's World had been £6), indulged Douglas's every whim: material, artistic or sexual.

The car is officially a design study, but it represents too much of the small company's material and emotional capital to be merely a whim.

James Blake has had a longstanding residency with BBC Radio 1, and its afforded him a venue to debut new material at his whim.

*Later that evening, C.K. appeared at a panel discussion at The New Yorker Festival with a story that captures the GOP presidential nominee's remarkable selfishness and insatiable desire to satisfy his whims ― be it for material wealth or attention from attractive women ― he simultaneously feels no need to respect as human beings.

The affidavits make plain that, among the intercepted conversations, the police were authorized to seize only those "relative to the payment of unlawful fees necessary to obtain liquor licenses". These directions sufficed to provide a standard which left nothing in the choice of materials to be seized to the "whim," Stanford v. Texas, supra, at 485, of the state authorities.

The title is derived from the Greek word for "whim" or "caprice". The musicians generate the melodic material, although Sorey guides them with a succession of gestures and written instructions, drawing on the "conduction" method pioneered by the improviser Butch Morris.

The decision stemmed from fears that without rules guaranteeing net neutrality, broadband providers could favor certain Internet content and reject other material, based on business agreements or even political whims.

Companies may demand more post-consumer material, but the supply still relies on the whims of municipalities and consumers, and "there's no real incentive built in to maximise recovery or material value," says Kate Eagles of NAPCOR, a trade association for the plastic packaging industry in North America.

While Mr. Walder said he would seek savings by trimming overtime payments and material costs, the authority's overall finances remain at the whims of higher powers.

On a whim, she took part in NaNoWriMo, the national creative writing month (she produced a lot of material, but "it was so bad I threw it away"), then began to read her work at a local short story slam.

Those who choose to abide by the law are subject to the censorship whims of governments which sporadically block media social media sites that permit dissenting or culturally sensitive material.