| Essentially, what has happened to O'Neill is no more than life, with all its vagaries and caprices. |
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| His nephew, Prince Demitri Ghyka, had been a wild pleasure seeker, whose caprices and excesses had delighted and pleased her.
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| These are qualities that foreigners admire, accustomed as they more usually are to the caprices of their own leaders. |
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| Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates. |
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| He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life. |
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| But now, with Morgan's depiction of her caprices and attempts to outwit him, she suddenly sounds quite normal. |
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| Every state and government in the world is now vulnerable to the caprices and blackmails of financial markets. |
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| In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew. |
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| Studies for solo violin include Paganini's brilliant 24 caprices, which provided a fertile source of inspiration for other composers. |
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| His story parallels that of Oliver Twist, trapped in a rigidly stratified society and at the mercy of its caprices. |
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| Yet simultaneously, through the caprices of the political cycle and the turn of world affairs, he is haemorrhaging it. |
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| Can anyone play Paganini's violin caprices and do them justice? |
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| Forcing the lie on you is part of the thug's power. It is often said that the caprices of government in Russia are beyond satire. |
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| How else to convey its mad caprices, the incomprehensible scale of his cruelty and the spiralling paranoia? |
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| Indiscrete looks and caprices of the wind can disturb the pleasure of relaxation. |
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| Ladies' costumes, following the caprices of the contemporary modes, included a pannier. |
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| Parasols were flattering items that lent themselves perfectly to the caprices of fashion. |
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| Perlman fairly sailed through these andantinos and caprices, using each one to showcase yet another aspect of his extraordinary mastery of the instrument. |
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| That sense of detachment from the caprices of Mother Nature is pretty unique in human history. |
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| Dress up like him and play one of his caprices with that wild hair. |
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| Wild beasts and the whims and caprices of an angry nature were all factors that weighed on humanity's fragile existence, and people often gathered into groups precisely in order to protect themselves against such attacks. |
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| The cultural is transmitted by non-genetic means and the novelty is that cultural selection reacts with a colossally higher speed when facing the caprices of uncertainty. |
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| The only morality guiding him was his heart's caprices. |
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| They represent the caprices of superficial love, and they lack in intellect, feeling, and ethics. |
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| Some essence of dogitude shines through all the caprices of taste and breeding that humans have applied to the animal. |
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| Trump, an erratic and impulsive spokesman for his own policy, needs competent civilian advisers, if only as a counterweight to the military point of view and his own self-admiring caprices. |
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| By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy. |
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