caprice
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But we live now at the intersection of presidential instinct and personal caprice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
“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
One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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