(a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The production of vocal sound is not capricious, it follows certain laws many of which are not known.
(2) Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.
(3) In one undisclosed court document in Kenya, seen by the Guardian, BAT’s lawyers demand the country’s high court “quash in its entirety” a package of anti-smoking regulations and rails against what it calls a “capricious” tax plan.
(4) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
(5) The rains in Katine sub-county in rural Uganda have been capricious all year, beyond the control even of such a faithful community as this.
(6) Degree of compliance with dietary advice, especially of the pregnant woman with a capricious appetite, is understandably difficult to assess.
(7) Opportunistic infections are increasingly becoming a problem in cancer patients amongst whom infection with Nocardia species is particularly difficult to detect due to the capricious natural history of the disease.
(8) Ashley can be capricious but unless he has a dramatic change of heart, the manager will have the chance to start winning back hearts and minds against Hull.
(9) Gambians had come to expect surprises from their leader – cruel, violent and capricious in power – just not ones that set the whole nation dancing in the streets and sent shockwaves of joy and inspiration across the continent.
(10) She has played middling singers and capricious interns, dancers, dreamers and damsels in distress, and she has done so with such ease and abandon that the actor and her alter egos have a tendency to blur.
(11) Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is somewhat capricious in part from the marked effect of inoculum size in some circumstances.
(12) That needs to be taken into consideration.” Philipp Mißfelder, foreign policy spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union, said: “I think deportations and extraditions to countries that have the death penalty are very problematic.” The Berlin judiciary should under no circumstances allow itself to become a willing tool of Cairo's capricious regime Franziska Brantner, Green party Egypt accuses both Qatar and al-Jazeera of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which was branded a terrorist organisation after the military deposed the president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.
(13) Detailed, within-subjects Golgi analyses of regional differences in cerebellar Purkinje cell dendritic development are impractical due to the capriciousness of that technique.
(14) HBFP technique is capricious and the differentiation step should be controlled stringently; ethanolic picric acid, therefore, is recommended as a differentiation fluid.
(15) And in part, as Murray staggered about indiscriminately high-fiving at the end, there was a sense that this has also been something of a rather mannered love story, at its centre Murray and that prim, capricious, but in the end compliantly adorable Wimbledon crowd.
(16) With De Jong not properly match fit, Vito Mannone remained under-employed but Sunderland's goalkeeper did save a capriciously curving shot from Tioté quite brilliantly.
(17) Having bowled out England in their second innings for 123, West Indies were required to make 192 to win the match and square the series and the expectation was that it would be a tough call for them, given the capricious nature of the pitch on the first two days, not least a second day in which 18 wickets fell, which is unprecedented for a Test match in Barbados.
(18) This bilingual city in the eastern “Maritime” Canadian province of New Brunswick had appeared the ideal venue for these teams but with dark rain clouds hovering in the humid skies and a capricious wind blowing, the residents of the French speaking suburb of Dieppe and English speaking Riverview had evidently decided to stay indoors.
(19) Zwiebel argues the bill would invite capricious litigation "that could be extremely harmful to some of the most important institutions in our community".
(20) However, the standards and essentials that are ultimately adopted must be applied uniformly and fairly and not in an arbitrary or capricious manner.
Felicity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
(n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
(n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play the couple in The Theory of Everything.
(2) Since then Felicity has left her course and moved back to her parents, and is paying of the debt caused by the damage her ex caused, which he has never paid for.
(3) The prime minister has been urging all Australians to remain calm in the face of increased terrorism threats,” said the society’s reef campaign director, Felicity Wishart.
(4) Photograph: Felicity McCabe The drought is just one part of the climate puzzle in Somaliland.
(5) Crèche (six months to five years) €135 for five full days with lunch included, skipeak.net Felice Hardy is co-editor of ski information website welove2ski.com
(6) When officers arrived the man admitted what he had done and was released on bail on condition he didn't contact Felicity, didn't return to the property and paid for the damage.
(7) They either just sign the contract or walk away.” Under the guise of ‘flexibility’, Hermes is delivering a raw deal for its workers | Felicity Lawrence Read more Newman said he had seen similar clauses before, but not in the other technology companies under the spotlight.
(8) Felicity J Lord charges £165 per property "for tenancy agreement" and £65 per person "for reference checks", a £60 "admin fee" and £120 "check-in fee".
(9) Women’s vice-president Felicity Wilson is the NSW deputy executive director of the Property Council of Australia .
(10) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
(11) Gibraltarians have a history of reinventing themselves,” says Ian Felice, a partner with the local law firm Hassans.
(12) Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian What does she think of Theresa May ?
(13) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
(14) · Felicity Lawrence is the Guardian's consumer affairs correspondent and author of Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate (Penguin)
(15) We never called for an ‘in danger’ listing as we want it protected and if it had been on the danger list it might have led to complacency,” said Felicity Wishart, reef campaign director for the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
(16) The first assistant secretary of the pharmaceutical benefits division, Felicity McNeil, the increase to the general co-payment meant some medicines would no longer be subsidised by the PBS and that was factored into the budget's forward estimates.
(17) Felicity Kendal's agent Dallas Smith was unable to reach his client, who was on holiday.
(18) It is therefore imperative that responsibility for nutrition be handed back to an independent agency, which is not affected by changes in government, ministers or political lobbying.” A regulator that serves the food industry rather than the consumer | Felicity Lawrence Read more A Conservative party spokesman said: “The UK now has the lowest salt intake of any developed country and our work on salt reduction is world-leading.
(19) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
(20) The presence of a zeta globin gene deletion [A. E. Felice et al., Hum.