The capricious powers of hereditary monarchs have gone.
If the origin and evolution of life were an unpredictable oddity, based on quirks of contingency, astrobiology would be fascinating but capricious.
The image of recusant martyrdom was perhaps more capricious and conflicting than the author here acknowledges.
The resulting arrangement of care-giving may look haphazard or capricious, but the underlying principle of reciprocity is clear.
An important implication of this meritocratic view was that leaders must be insulated from the capricious and morally corrosive practices of parliamentary politics.
They are representative in showing the capricious nature of the oscillations.
It is therefore a fragile and potentially capricious relationship.
In her new milieu, this child is, in reality, considered to be a captive, subject to the capricious demands of her new environment.
