Word: whims
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...bridge simply a contentious whim of Fogg officials, the passageway would be an important route for safely transporting artworks from one wing to another...
...that is approximately as accurate as a police composite ("The average customer will never understand that," said Kaplan, dismissing one particularly intricate Ferré blouse), the buyers run through the racks of clothes. If it can be said to exist at all, fashion sense is an amalgam of taste, whim, herd instinct and anxiety. Buying clothes for a store may not be a weighty responsibility, but it is a significant one. By determining what parts of a collection are bought, and in what quantity, the buyer affects not only the fortunes of a designer's company but also...
...trip to the Soviet Union came on a whim, without the aid of an In-tourist expedition. Sitting in the Stockholm train station--my train back to Paris was due to depart within in the hour--an advertisement for the Trans-Siberian Railroad interrupted my reading...
...ENCOURAGING that the Reagan regime has taken an interest in affirmative action, but how tragic that it has concerned itself with the wrong side of the coin. Affirmative action is not a discretionary tool to be employed at whim; rather, it represents the best available legal remedy for past and current discrimination that has severely eroded any true measure of equality in the American economy. But in both word and deed, the Reagan Administration has seriously undermined the legitimacy of affirmative action nationwide...
...difference, though. The domestic surrealism of John Irving's novel, a sort of tragicomic You Can't Take It with You, surrenders to the discipline of cinema narrative only after a struggle. His characters operate on obsession and whim ("I'm a grizzly bear!" "I've got to have sex with my sister!" "Hey, kids, let's all move to Vienna!") as the labyrinthine logic of Fate gives way to an author's caprice. On this Wild Mouse ride of moods and motives, Life goes on, Death comes in, windows open, options close...