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The didacticism of this passage demonstrates that the caprice of nature expresses the narrator's perspective and not the other way around.
In a variety of languages, either for the sake of euphony, or from caprice or accident, sibilant letters have been interchanged with dentals.
Nevertheless, we should at least expect some caprice or cunning from our thieves.
There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of.
If cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, then its one-day version is sheer caprice.
Her narrative follows a loopy line traced more by mood and caprice than by causation or chronology.
Poussin's view of the genre, as a representation modelled on true nature, echoes the meaning of the caprice in at least one form of literature.
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
Duly benumbed, you may slip the odd item of power or caprice into a pocket of memory, to take home.
To be irrational with your own money may be to be foolhardy, to give in to guilty pleasure, or to wallow in caprice.
Victims and their relatives complain that blind justice has been supplanted by caprice.
What intrigue one must unravel, what caprice one must deal with every day in these homes for the aged, in these villages of Europe of the Heart.
The insistence of the Member States to insert minimum clauses into Commission proposals, was not an idle caprice.
Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
It was an odd caprice of fate that an actor who would have preferred doing classical texts made his fame and fortune in something based on a comic book.
In our modern world, after all, power rarely lies hidden behind, say, Roman flat or the caprice of royal edict, at least not in the colonizing countries.
Paganini's 24th caprice for solo violin, itself a variation on an original theme, was creatively diversified by Brahms, Liszt, Szymanowski and, most lyrically, Rachmaninov.
The caprice of the draw created an intriguing dynamic, as the top-half quarter-final pairings constituted a pair of rematches from the Hyder semis.
It is less painful to contemplate a Jesus, a Bar Kokhba or any other Jew punished under humane Israelite law than his abandonment to the cruel caprice of uncircumcised Rome.
But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
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Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon.
The reason for a with profits fund to be more heavily invested in shares than in fixed interest stocks is not a product of caprice or thoughtless gambling.
For the sake of peace, a common law is needed, one which would foster true freedom rather than blind caprice, and protect the weak from oppression by the strong.
It shows that the protests raised against the bill are not motivated by any irresponsible caprice or desire to defend the interests of a profession.
The Olympics are widely seen as an extravagant caprice of Russia's rulers, especially its flamboyantly macho president, rather than a common national effort.
They hold their positions subject to the whims and caprice of the local barber, garageman, banker, or what not.
And he is a wise man who leaves some of his leisure time unaccounted and unplanned for, making no effort except what the caprice of the moment dictates.
Israel's laws governing freedom of movement are likewise administered in a humiliating manner, but they are characterized by arbitrariness and caprice.
Is there something about the game, the combination of luck, bloody-mindedness, unpredictability and caprice that can drive a person over the edge?
Snider viewed Titania and her caprice as solely to blame for her marital strife with Oberon.
Its more impressive beneficiaries – currently the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and Dame Marina Warner – return the compliment, by lending reputational lustre to official partiality and caprice.
The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.
Examples from Classical Literature
Thus man here deifies satisfaction in self-pleasing, in caprice and groundless arbitrariness.
Had her temper, or her caprice, or her extravagance, tired out his patience?
She was the personification of caprice, adorably constructed, and constructed to be adored.
Without work, he would develop into a monster of caprice and arbitrariness.
The devotion of Mr Sparkler was only to be equalled by the caprice and cruelty of his enslaver.
It is such a poor regulator of unbalance that helpless infancy should not suffer neglect by its caprice.
It was caprice that took me from the Silvie de Grasse, and put me in her sister-liner.
I was not fit to have children, if I sacrificed their wellbeing to his caprice and his whim, but that was what I did.
The cupidity of the shrewd and unscrupulous and the caprice of the shallow and frivolous.
Yes, but it has been only such protection as the caprice or affection of the voting class has given, gratuities revocable at will.
Here is some ill-disposed quartz, tormenting a peaceable octahedron of fluor, in mere caprice.
No, it is for you to say whether Ethan Ffrench's unjust caprice is a bar between us.
In the general arrangement, in the ordonnance, late Gothic caprice and fantastic love of the unforeseen rule triumphant.
Fancy, in this sense, falls a little short of oddity and caprice.
Weston's nature to imagine that any caprice could be strong enough to affect one so dear, and, as he believed, so deservedly dear.
Anaximenes and Heraclitus who ridiculed the gods and the priests for their avarice, caprice and impotence.
The price of mohair has fluctuated with the caprice of fashion.
For the present distress, however, of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice, there are easy remedies.
I cannot give any reason but caprice for quitting this ship.
But every one now knows that La Tonietta's caprice is Dario.
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Why should we cultivate talents merely to gratify the caprice of tyrants?
But this was done for no known reason but the caprice of the draughtsman.
Her caprice, whether in private or public, was altogether unrestrained.
Here was no caprice or questionings or captious standards of convention.
He was also liable to attacks of caprice and self-punishment.
In Thee is no carelessness, neglect, slothfulness, nor caprice.
At the best, in her most charitable frame of mind, she considered the statement of his views to be a caprice, an erratic and uncalled-for prank.
And his unrepentant death seemed to lift for a moment the curtain on something lofty and sinister like an Olympian's caprice.
There is nothing of caprice, of peculiarity, in the content of the monad.
It is a system of arbitrary canons, originating in pure caprice.
Nor is it a caprice, that is, motiveless volition, or will as a motor.
They remove from the performance all suggestions of unregulated caprice.
They paralyse all of it that is not devoted to their tyranny and caprice.
The caprice of keeping them company for a day might be pardonable.
The doting old husband was the willing slave of the petulant young wife's slightest caprice.
There was a certain amount of romantic dreaminess and caprice in her, but with the fantastic was mingled much that was strong and deep.
But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs.
The offer of the post was but an ill-considered caprice of Mr. Tyler.
I will not take you unready for your task, in order to cast you into the crucible of my own desires, of my caprice, or my ambition.
The report of firearms was heard near the Rue Saint Denis and occasionally church bells began to ring indiscriminately and at the caprice of the populace.
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The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.
In regard to the migration of the peoples it does not enter anyone's head today to suppose that the renovation of the European world depended on Attila's caprice.
I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed.
It was by the merest caprice of fortune that they headed toward the west coast of Africa, instead of toward Zanzibar on the opposite side of the dark continent.
