| The national championship should be decided on the field by football players, not by the whims of the sports punditocracy. |
| But Plato tells us that the ethical laws cannot be the arbitrary whims of personalized gods. |
| Work was soon hampered by an inflow of large volumes of underground water in several shafts, keeping the whims occupied day and night. |
| These orders were invariably cancelled, after a decent interval, due to the whims of our fictitious clients. |
| Yet models are malleable, ciphers for the whims of stylists and photographers. |
| That in turn makes humankind's tools and conveniences, like urinals, subject to the whims of politics. |
