In the end, I picked as my bachelorette a capricious little blonde with ambitions to be a rock diva. |
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It'll be a real hoot to see the neighbors gawking, gasping and going completely bonkers over your capricious little caper. |
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The emotional goal was to eliminate vagarious, capricious, out-of-touch control by the powerful past presidents. |
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Only the capricious talent of David Lynch could manage to produce a noirish thriller that is so confusing and yet spellbinding at the same time. |
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To expert and non-expert alike, cyclones seem to have a capricious life of their own. |
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In any event, I reserve the right to be arbitrary and capricious in choosing which comments to delete because they cross the line. |
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I miss her because she was capricious and unreliable, and because minis are the kind of car that make people smile. |
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Please allow me to maintain my self-image as capricious, arbitrary and unfair. |
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The true gods are fickle and capricious and care little for the affairs of men, but the piper was different. |
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While the sprites that run the weather here are capricious, their temperaments are contained within some very strict limits. |
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The woman was so fickle-minded and capricious that Agueda often found herself confused. |
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Luckily enough, ostriches are not capricious animals and easily adapt to the climate in Bulgaria. |
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It's an amusing idea, that even the harbingers of capitalism are subject to the ever-changing moods of capricious Mother Nature. |
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Ultimately, that's for the voters to decide, and recent history shows them to be a mercurial, at times capricious lot. |
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Even those who have climbed in the Alps or the lower Himalayas, find it hard to understand the appeal of such a brutal and capricious mountain. |
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I have a strange, queasy feeling that I can never impart to him about how capricious and arbitrary a regime like this can be. |
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Whatever the cause, it would appear arbitrary and capricious to limit the number of years students are given to learn English. |
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The purpose of the provision in paragraph 18.15 is to prevent arbitrary or capricious searches. |
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To claim that God engages in this same capricious and barbaric behavior is to blaspheme God. |
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Upon such changing moods, and seemingly capricious events, the future spiritual welfare of our nation has depended. |
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In those circumstances the arrest, though subsequently found to be unlawful, could not be said to be capricious or arbitrary. |
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Having laws you're not going to enforce is an invitation for capricious and arbitrary prosecution. |
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In using the police power in this broad way, municipalities can avoid charges of arbitrary and capricious acts. |
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Copies of the memorandum went to the membership of appeals committees that had found the provost's decisions to be arbitrary and capricious. |
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But Powell's fatalistic words do convey a career military man's appreciation of the arbitrary and capricious nature of war. |
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Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward. |
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Georgia, the Supreme Court temporarily ended the death penalty in America, deeming its application arbitrary and capricious. |
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In short, they're picky eaters, and their appetites are capricious and unpredictable. |
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Relatively incorrupt, they brought an end to the capricious violence of the warlords who ruled in the post-Soviet vacuum. |
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Targeting aid resources without adequate awareness of the size of the population involved in illicit crops is capricious and arbitrary. |
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A fallen leaf drifts briefly into his life, and tells him of the inevitability and capricious nature of death. |
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The arrestingly capricious mood of his concerto's second movement is not followed through. |
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Pan is most often portrayed with the torso of a man, the hooved legs and twisty horns of a wild goat, and the capricious face of a human. |
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Itself a capricious act, it was only one of several questionable departures. |
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Her character is weak and Steinbeck characterized her as an archetypical child, both capricious and malleable. |
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The Pyrenees are famous for their capricious showers, which pour rain and hail on one mountainside while another is bathed in sunlight. |
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Do not allow yourself any capricious acts of whimsy, be precise and calculated, erring on the side of mercy and the greater good. |
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She gave us a brilliant, capricious Serse, always a King, always keeping his subjects on the hop. |
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It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous. |
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A good example of the unpredictable and often capricious nature of usage controversies is the current issue of hopefully as a sentence adverb. |
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There are the capricious gusts of sea wind that sweep in unsuspectingly, the cunning bunkers, the enigmatic kicks and bounces, the blatantly tormenting results. |
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In that event the basis for the exercise of power is absent, just as if it were shown that the opinion was arbitrary, capricious, irrational, or not bona fide. |
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Perhaps this is because he believes so much in divine providence and God's redemption in Christ, and he refuses to believe that God is capricious. |
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The workings of the system were entirely capricious and arbitrary. |
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Furthermore, this is he at his most capricious, his most willing to turn down this or that bypath and still wind up at the same terminus as the main road. |
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The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting. |
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Nature is regarded as the provider of bounty, but also as wild, awesome and capricious, with unpredictable catastrophes, like floods and storms at sea. |
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Arbitrary and capricious rather than democratic procedures prevailed. |
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Let us say that on a rare, windy day in Waterloo, someone leaves a copy of our beloved Imprint on a bench outside, completely at the mercy of the fickle, capricious wind. |
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But, he stresses, the refuge also institutes capricious policies. |
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We remain constantly curious about what great designers will turn out from their capricious artistic alchemy. |
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Where capricious behaviour consistent with tabanca is most evident is in his unsupported opinion of what African-Trinidadian children do at school. |
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He acknowledges she was capricious and had a ruthless streak. |
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The increasing confidence of the Irish labour force means that employees are less inclined to tolerate biased, arbitrary or capricious employer decisions. |
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But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses. |
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He can be so sweet sometimes, he's just very capricious and whimsical. |
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Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation. |
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It is an immensely tough way of living but one which now, with over-grazing and an increasingly capricious climate, is beginning to look very vulnerable. |
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Exhausted and in constant pain, she had to contend with vast, unfathomable personality changes that made her capricious, indecisive, impatient and intolerant. |
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Yes, the capricious, man-eating screen siren has, quite literally, gotten thee to a nunnery. |
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For the second time that morning the capricious wind was wreaking havoc. |
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She could be wretchedly imprecise, capricious, and heartless to her co-workers. |
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Fashion designers have always been capricious in relation to woman's size, but in the past it only affected the bourgeoise or women of a certain age. |
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The rule of capitalism, for all the mild socialistic safeguards we have erected, is toxically capricious. |
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Accordingly, arbitrary and capricious review is understood to be more deferential to agencies than substantial evidence review is. |
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Style changes are rarely capricious, since change plays havoc with the editor's sacred cow, consistency. |
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The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature. |
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Therefore, the FCC, by not taking any action made an arbitrary, capricious and confiscatory decision with respect to commission payments. |
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Instead, it makes me appear capricious, malevolent and cruel. |
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But to imply, as Gardiner does, that it took artistic folie de grandeur to fall out with Lesley Waddington is capricious. |
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He felt Billings overedited him and made capricious changes. |
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