Caprices

Word CAPRICES
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Definitions and meanings of "Caprices"

What do we mean by caprices?

An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.

An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.

A disposition to be impulsive.

A capriccio.

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The word "caprices" in example sentences

Though the trunk and all the inner boughs and leaves have disappeared, yet there hang here and there fossil leaves, also in mid-air; they appear to have been petrified, without method or selection, by what we call the caprices of nature; they hang in the path which the boughs and twigs would have taken, and they seem to indicate that if the tree could have been seen a million years earlier, before it had grown near its present size, the leaves standing at the end of each bough would have been found very different from what they are now. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

The way that Gondry goes for broke with insanely inventive special effects and gripping caprices is actually inspiring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her character was not of the kind which could safely be left to its own development, for she called her caprices justice and her obstinacy principle, a mode of viewing life not conducive to much permanent satisfaction when not modified by the salutary restraint of a more sensible companion. ❋ Unknown (1881)

"Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name." ❋ Benito P��rez Gald��s (1881)

The pearls -- which she always wore -- some coral ornaments, and a handful of amber beads were her only dower, but her caprices were the insolent and extravagant caprices of a queen. ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)

(which most people call caprices) underlying the phenomena of this delicious phase of life, when childhood is both flower and fruit, a confused intelligence, a perpetual movement, a powerful desire. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The walls were brightly frescoed with "caprices" of nymphs and loves sporting under the blue among flowers and birds. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

But with the kind of lifestyle and work schedule most of us have we tend to set aside some of our 'caprices' like a relaxing day at the beach and enjoy sun tanning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Any man who to secure your real interests opposes your wishes and never speaks to get applause but deliberately chooses politics as his profession (a business in which chance exercises greater influence than human reason), being perfectly ready to answer for the caprices is a really brave and useful citizen. ❋ T. W. Lumb (N/A)

The ability of governments to finance their debts should not be dependent on the caprices of private speculators. ❋ Robert Kuttner (2011)

There it is -- the hard-labored life of black mothers in 1963, women squeezed between the violent caprices of white Mississippi society and the dangerous rise of the civil rights movement. ❋ Paul Kleyman (2011)

They called on the Kosovo ministries of education and justice to intervene against the treatment inflicted on the seven, declaring, the Islamic Community of Kosovo is not the private property of some individual with license to use it at others' expense, according to his personal caprices and resentments. ❋ Stephen Schwartz (2011)

He may yet fail to survive: to second-guess the caprices of Blackburn's distant poultry magnates would be folly, and six defeats in nine Premier League matches before this draw, not to mention rumours of an altercation between supporters and a member of Kean's coaching staff in midweek, had combined to create a sense of crisis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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