Word: whims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...upon them that he alone understood the Scriptures. He changed his interpretations at will, while his unsteady flock struggled to keep up. In a tactic common to cult leaders, Koresh made food a tool for ensuring obedience. The compound diet was often insufficient, varying according to the leader's whim. Sometimes dinner was stew or chicken; at other times it might be nothing but popcorn. On their infrequent trips to Waco, cultists could be seen wolfing down packaged cheese in convenience stores. Household and dietary rules at the compound were as changeable as the theology. Koresh established strict bans...
Control over WordPerfect and Windows is delegated to small groups of programmers in Orem, Utah, and Redmond, Washington, respectively. They may or may not fix my problem, depending on everything from whim to budget constraints...
...Clintons, like the surgeons in the nightmare, seem to have the wrong patient. Their first concern should be us, the "consumers," whose symptoms include lack of coverage, inadequate coverage or the terror of losing insurance through a job change or the whim of some green-visored claims adjuster. Another worthy "patient" is American business, or at least businesses that offer health benefits to their employees. These benefits, which consume one-fourth of corporate net income, have become like cement shoes on the feet of American enterprise, threatening to hobble the entire economy...
...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...