Chapter 7, the fourth chapter of section 2, enters into a history of experimental knowledge and attempts to control 'the wayward influences of chance' (p. 160).
Nothing here turns out as we might expect it to: not the musical implications of the wayward material, and certainly not the meanings to which these give rise.
To say that chance rules the universe is therefore to say that contingency governs cognition; our knowing continuously struggles to make sense of an elusive and wayward reality.
Radcliffe had not given any thought to the possibility of rivers changing course; a serious lapse in a province whose rivers were notoriously wayward.
The modern perspective entailed a master narrative that enabled us to trace the troubling departures of the interwar period to backwardness or wayward divergence from putatively normal modern development.
Players had to temper the wayward intonation of the natural harmonic series and to sharpen their techniques to meet the demands of composers and discriminating listeners.
Such practice was quite common when disciplining wayward preachers.
It was found that there is one personality that performs better than the average: the wayward personality.
