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The justices should have known their instructions would fall on intentionally occluded ears, because this president is full of caprice, among other things.

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

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She relished the indomitable nature of our quirks and caprices, their capacity to survive even egregious catastrophe.

“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.”

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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