caprice

Their caprice is not divine mystery; it is bald fact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“Marie-Jeanne became a way to think about the private Fanon,” Shatz said, “his vanity and contradictions, his caprice and his warmth. I felt that through her I could offer a more humane portrait.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

It told the BBC that COP presidents are "expected to act without bias, prejudice, favouritism, caprice, self-interest, preference or deference, strictly based on sound, independent and fair judgement".

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023

It wasn’t “if” early America would fall back under tyranny, the lawless caprice of monarchy, but when.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023

Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom?

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

There are plenty of times you don't want to be exposed to the individual prejudices and caprices of human beings.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025

They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil an entire alfalfa cutting with a downpour or generate an especially big yield with a string of blistering days.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

And they don’t want their money riding on the foibles and caprices of human officials.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

The sculpture made manifest just how closely his work has become lashed to the caprices of global capital.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021

I had seen more of her odd fits and caprices than had the others.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman