Sentence examples for whims from inspiring English sources

Rather than serving either commercial considerations or following the whims of musicians, the work he accomplished as a sleeve designer betrayed a fierce independence, and an obvious belief in art for art's sake.

Dear God, do the decadent whims of our royal family – and, indeed, certain singer-songwriters' thirst for lucrative "private gigs" – know no bounds?

"It is clear that the current BSA leadership will bend with the winds of popular culture, and the whims of liberal special interest groups," said Perkins.

There are some Muslim readers who automatically assume I must be some liberal heathen, who have accused me of "Islam bashing", blasphemy and changing Islam to "suit my whims" - when I've done no such thing.

From not listening to staff and bending to whims of bigger jellies that live in the even darker ocean depths, to stubbornly maintaining the status quo, these poor invertebrates cannot help trying to be everything to everyone (however obvious it is that this just won't work).

At times, the film provided a stark reminder of an emotion that was once so often out of the control of the person experiencing it, subject to the cruel whims and prejudices of society.

The rhetoric has been about "liberation", but the model of private contract, between Whitehall and individual schools, will arguably allow future secretaries of state unprecedented power to impose personal whims, by threatening to cut off funding.

If Ken Livingstone wins, he shouldn't write this off as one of Boris's whims but embrace it as an investment in the daily life of Londoners.

Reviewing her debut album, 2003's solid-but-unremarkable Thankful, Rolling Stone described her as "a pop posy whose career is tied for eternity to the whims of her American Idol overlords".

Rising sea levels and raging storms spare no second thoughts for electoral cycles and political whims: a point Vancouver's leaders need to keep in mind when delivering the city's long-term flood defence programmes.

The Downing Street policy unit was originally established under Harold Wilson in 1974 and it has gone through a number of guises according to the whims of successive prime ministers.