Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatens to overrun both the story and the nation. The past and present are so full of people and their troubles that this terrible weather becomes a sign of hope, "the only thing nobody has been able to tamper with." In an environment where everything can change at the whim of whichever army or party has control, the constant drizzle becomes an unlikely redemptive force. These passages provide a reflective distance from the disarray of the rest of the novel...
...Discourses to Livy, Machiavelli points out that he lives in a secular, not a pious world. Machiavelli's observation still holds true today. But if the rights of the pious can be overturned at anyone's whim, the goal of increasing moral consciousness seems less attainable than ever...
...pragmatism," says Luu. "I shaved my hair during reading period on a whim...
...much for protect and serve. The HUPD, whose salaries I subsidize, arrest homeless people for taking cans out of dumpsters. They participate in elaborate, risky drug stings with other local police departments. They break up perfectly good, totally harmless parties on a whim. They are even alleged to racially harass students and each other, and then refuse to investigate that properly...
...other times, for all of Clinton's love of process and consensus, he has shown a tendency to depart from it on a whim. Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird told Clinton about her employment of illegal aliens as drivers and nannies last November, but she survived the transition's much vaunted vetting process anyway. Clinton turned to campaign chairman Mickey Kantor to be his Trade Representative even though the Los Angeles lawyer has no experience with the issue and must recuse himself from two upcoming rulings because the law firm in which he retains a financial interest represents...