Voorbeelden van capricious

• The ideal of being independent from the capricious events of the world was obviously of great importance to a wide variety of early modern thinkers.

• Typically, when faced with apparently capricious rules, researchers seek ways to express the changes as natural looking processes, given some theoretical model.

• Bankrupting one taxpayer to pay the costs of another could be seen as truly capricious.

• She too was a temptress who could beguile and terrify, and she was very capricious.

• This then breaks down into a march, which is more regular (and slightly pompous) and sometimes pitted against the capricious material.

• One is the capricious nature of the oscillations.

• The popular profile of ballooning as a capricious and 'unscientific' business has a long history.

• In her new milieu, this child is, in reality, considered to be a captive, subject to the capricious demands of her new environment.

• It is therefore a fragile and potentially capricious relationship.

• They are representative in showing the capricious nature of the oscillations.

• An important implication of this meritocratic view was that leaders must be insulated from the capricious and morally corrosive practices of parliamentary politics.

• The resulting arrangement of care-giving may look haphazard or capricious, but the underlying principle of reciprocity is clear.

• The image of recusant martyrdom was perhaps more capricious and conflicting than the author here acknowledges.

• If the origin and evolution of life were an unpredictable oddity, based on quirks of contingency, astrobiology would be fascinating but capricious.

• The capricious powers of hereditary monarchs have gone.