(v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
(v. i.) See Capriccio.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's not Le Caprice - but it's not Belmarsh either," he writes.
(2) injection capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acid delayed the onset of picrotoxin-induced clonic convulsion in a dose-dependent manner.
(3) Myristic and palmitic acids were converted to the corresponding omega-and (omega-1)-hydroxy fatty acids, whereas lauric acid was converted only to 12-hydroxylauric acid, and capric acid, to 9-and 10-hydroxycapric acids together with an unknown polar acid.
(4) A personal pension pot, so called, is subject to the caprice of both stock markets and interest rates.
(5) In each dietary condition, in vitro incorporation of exogenously added fatty acids (ranging from capric to oleic acid) was studied in epididymal adipose glycerides.
(6) In trial 3, a teat germicide aged at ambient temperature for 33 mo, which was originally formulated to contain 1% Lauricidin, 5% caprylic and capric acids, and 6% lactic acid, was evaluated.
(7) To metabolize extracellular superoxide radicals effectively at or near cell membranes, we synthesized amphipathic superoxide dismutase (SOD) derivatives (AC-SOD) by covalently linking hydrophobic fatty acids with different chain lengths, such as caprylic acid, capric acid, lauric acid and myristic acid, to the lysyl amino groups of the enzyme.
(8) But even Tim Oliver of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, who advances this vision , says the UK would be a junior partner, dependent on the caprices of European institutions, trying to negotiate bilateral free trade deals from a position of weakness.
(9) Milk of Egyptian women contained significantly higher percentages of capric, lauric, myristic, linoleic and arachidonic acids, saturated fatty acids (SFA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).
(10) A considerable portion of capric and caprylic acid was absorbed through the lymph duct, although to a lesser extent than was linoleic acid.
(11) Lauric and myristic acids were preferentially metabolized to their omega-1 hydroxy counterparts while no hydroxylation occurred when capric acid was used as the substrate.
(12) The seed lipids of Cuphea were first discovered in the 1960s to contain high percentages of several medium-chain fatty acids, including caprylic, capric, lauric, and myristic acid.
(13) The increase in the synaptic potential was significant with arachidonic acid (100 microM), oleic acid (100 microM), myristic acid (250 microM) and capric acid (250 microM).
(14) Capric, lauric, palmitoleic, linoleic, and arachidonic acids each inhibited the rate of angiotensin I production in vitro (P less than 0.01).
(15) Hydrolysis, followed by analysis by thin-layer chromatography, paper chromatography, gas chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry showed that the radioactivity was greatest in the medium-chain n-fatty acids, caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) acids.
(16) Inhibition is strongest in the presence of caprylic, capric and lauric acid (C8-C12) i.e.
(17) A similar trend was observed when the medium-chain fatty acid was caprylic acid instead of capric acid.
(18) To scavenge superoxide radicals on the outer surface of corneal epithelial cells, the authors synthesized an acylated SOD derivative (AC-SOD) by linking capric acid.
(19) The interference of hyperthermia and ionizing radiation, respectively, with the effects of capric (10:0), lauric (12:0), myristic (14:0), oleic (cis-18:1) and elaidic (trans-18:1) acids on the osmotic resistance of human erythrocytes was investigated.
(20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.
Cruelty
Definition:
(n.) The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.
(n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(2) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(3) So it was with cruelty – the same cruelty seen in the enactment of the Muslim travel ban and the gamble with the healthcare of 24 million people – that Trump signed an executive order to begin construction immediately .
(4) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
(5) The FN has made political capital about cruelty to animals in the preparation of halal and kosher meat in the past, and its MEPs are preparing a resolution that would limit shale gas exploration, despite the party voting against a shale moratorium in the last parliament.
(6) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(7) Strong objections to certain features of this system have not only been raised by national and international societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals but also by ethologists.
(8) Finally, Sybil Burton gave in, claiming cruelty and that her husband was "in the constant company of another woman," which Newsweek called "the throwaway line of the decade".
(9) His mother, devoted and stoic, read aloud the sad, true stories of cruelty and passion between the wars contained in his father's briefs for the divorce court.
(10) The heads of the World Health Organisation, Unicef, the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme and the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, urged political leaders to use their influence to solve the crisis and criticised what they described as "an insufficient sense of urgency among the governments and parties that could put a stop to the cruelty and carnage in Syria".
(11) Why does the sight, or even the mere thought, of the obese excite such venom, disgust and outright cruelty?
(12) Those who doubted football's capacity for cruelty ought to have been on hand in Paris - much in the manner that Thierry Henry was for France .
(13) She served either as a director or council member of the Conservation Society, Soil Association, Animal Defence Society, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Society for the Protection of Animals.
(14) They are not motivated by cruelty but by a powerful desire to push the frontiers of medical research and develop therapies for debilitating diseases.
(15) Labour now wants to own this mantle of macho, to keep the momentum of cruelty going in the name of responsibility, But lets get real.
(16) It predicts: "As these conflicts and crises grow ever more intense, and as the ruling elite continues with impunity to crush and to strip away the rights of citizens to freedom, to property, and to the pursuit of happiness, we see the powerless in our society – the vulnerable groups, the people who have been suppressed and monitored, who have suffered cruelty and even torture, and who have had no adequate avenues for their protests, no courts to hear their pleas -– becoming more militant and raising the possibility of a violent conflict of disastrous proportions.
(17) Jennie Gray was sentenced to 42 months in jail for child cruelty and for her part in the cover-up, while Butler was also handed a five-year sentence for child cruelty over a series of untreated injuries in the weeks and months before her death.
(18) Liberal and Labor have moved close together on cruelty to refugees to cutting funding to universities and on increasing coal exports, so I am not in the least bit surprised you’ve got this collusion,” she said.
(19) Would people bring their children to SeaWorld if they knew the cruelty behind the orca whale circus show?
(20) Recognition of unacceptable cruelty to animals in pasttimes such as bull-baiting, dates in Britain from the early 19th century.