The word
"whim" refers to a sudden and unpredictable desire or impulse to do something without any particular reason or plan.
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But out best efforts count for nothing up against the selfish
whim of someone stronger or more powerful.
My favourite thing to bake
on whim when I need to use up leftover ingredients is cookies.
If ANY scientific laws can be broken
at whim by a supreme, NO scientific results can be trusted.
But personally throwing out a number on a complete
whim in the form of a «bet» makes me uncomfortable — given what I take those numbers to imply.
Each of my paintings is started
by whim as much as by design.
I always have big stacks of pillows in the corner of my bedroom, just waiting for a new
whim when I feel like switching pillows.
The decision to hold a referendum, changing how members can vote in leadership elections, the butterfly effect of
political whim and political will.
I did this on a total
whim during nap time one day, and I am thrilled with the results.
Several generations later, the humans have grown fat and lazy, their every need and
whim taken care of by computer.
My children, equally, have every resource available to them for every
creative whim they have.
If you give in to his every
little whim, he will never learn control or discipline.
These changes were no
mere whim of car - loving traffic engineers.
But honestly, with everyone jumping ship at any
given whim, coupled with the small dev team, I saw this coming for a while now.
I've had this shirt for several years and on a last
minute whim I decided to wear it with the skirt.
Most open adoptions are left up to the adoptive
parents whim if they will remain open or close.
However, we also see that
consumer whim has a lot of influence - perhaps all the influence - over how manufacturers introduce and carry on release of new gadgets.
You might remember my
primer whim incident... I just randomly started painting things assuming I was awesome enough to wing it.
Nor does his camera fully take in the sweep of a life at court, where any
royal whim was immediately law.
-LSB-...] might remember my primer
whim incident... I just randomly started painting things assuming I was awesome enough to wing it.
As for a religious right... I think giving in to every
religions whim is detrimental to our society.
I tell him about the dancing lessons, and how my husband had asked me to be his partner on pure
innocent whim.
Why not work with our bodies, instead of constantly working against them in order to satisfy every
temporary whim?
So it was with immense surprise that I learned that my script, submitted on a
skeptical whim, had been accepted into the intensive.
It teaches kids that it's OK to produce surplus animals on a self -
centered whim.
Babies are serious things, not a
fucking whim that you just push off for a few hours.
The argument by those against «government schools» is that employees in private business can't get tenure and are hired and fired
at whim so teachers should be the same.
We like to think that humans are supremely logical, making decisions on the basis of hard data and not
on whim.
The animals passed on this «
whim of nature» to their offspring, who, for their part, were better able to survive periods of food scarcity.
These were only a few of many on long and varied lists that were created at will and changed
by whim.
And on my
own whim, I added a quarter teaspoon of paprika.
The recent paintings appear to abandon the grid altogether in favor of a gradual accumulation of little circular cells that González fills at
whim with dots of color or leaves empty.
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Another new series I bought (this one on a total
whim because it was there) was Mardock Scramble (Vol.
Having WiFi would be a nice feature so I don't have to hunt down a cord to sync, but I'm better off not being able to buy books at
whim from anywhere, anytime.
We must all try to work together and destruct the real evils of the World (i.e. ISIL and any other terrorist group that kills at
whim for false causes and false idols).
After 13 years of arrogant rule from the Labour party (with some achievements admittadly), where PR was a convenient
whim while there was a wiff of a hung parliament but rejected in search of ulitmate power you now lecture the Lib - Dems on staying true to «progressive» values.
Eckler said her journey to the off - road club came as
whim after she departed from her old car, a Kia Soul, and picked up a 2013 JKU Jeep Wrangler.