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Capricious
"Capricious" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The formation and movement of hurricanes are capricious, even with our present-day technology.
The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.
Capricious as April.
Everyone is entitled to be capricious now and then.
We are our memory, we are that fanciful museum of capricious forms, that mountain of broken mirrors.
A bull, stimulated either by the scarlet colour of Miss Ashton's mantle, or by one of those fits of capricious ferocity to which their dispositions are liable, detached himself suddenly from the group which was feeding at the upper extremity of a grassy glade, that seemed to lose itself among the crossing and entangled boughs. The animal approached the intruders on his pasture ground, at first slowly, pawing the ground with his hoof, bellowing from time to time, and tearing up the sand with his horns, as if to lash himself up to rage and violence.
Humans are very capricious beings.
Ovid was a very capricious child.
Cats are capricious.
Trump was capricious.
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I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously.
I am heere with thee, and thy Goats, as the moſt capricious Poet honeſt Ouid was among Gothes.
"Capricious?" And at this monsieur began to laugh. "Oh no, I'm not capricious. I am very faithful. I am very constant. Comprenez?"
Although much has been learned about lightning and its effects through research and study, many questions are still unanswered and the upper limits of voltage, current and total energy that may be associated with lightning are not conclusively defined. The apparent capricious nature of lightning is evidenced by the range of extremes as well as, in some cases, the unique nature of the damage that results. Thus, to predict in the absence of physical evidence the exact mechanism of ignition in this particular case is not possible. By the same reasoning, in view of the known facts of this accident, there is no logical explanation for ignition of the flammable vapors other than some effect stemming directly from the lightning strike.
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