Criticism reduces those regions of literature under the dominion of science, which have hitherto known only the anarchy of ignorance, the caprices of fancy, and the tyranny of prescription.
It may be said, indeed, that to consult the caprices and associations of the human mind, is to lower the dignity of religion; but surely a good end must justify any means which are not in themselves culpable or ridiculous.
This dishonouring report, invented and disseminated by court hatred, soured the resentments of the young prince, but could not hide the brilliancy of his courage, which he displayed in caprices unworthy of his rank.
Early tired of the beauty and virtue of the Duchesse d'Orleans, he had conceived for a lovely, witty, insinuating woman a sentiment which did not enchain the caprices of his heart, but which controlled his inconsistency and directed his mind.
The man of affairs, who wants to rise, waits on occasion; he is on the watch to avail himself of the moods and caprices of men and bend them to his interest.
At twilight a man and a woman were threading their way through this cemetery, and as they went they smiled faintly at the memorial caprices of the living and the still quainter originalities of the dead.
One day Miss Quincey walked in Camden Town and noted the singularcaprices of the Spring.
He wished, then, to support himself upon France, or at least to have no opposition from it, and he perfectly well knew the duplicity and caprices of Cardinal Dubois.
Prince, her father, whose continual caprices were the plague of all those over whom he could exercise them.
Glib in speech, and with the manners of the great world, he was full of caprices and fancies; although a great gambler and spendthrift, he was miserly, and cared only for himself.
Harmful sympathy is thus substituted for helpful discipline, and the more stable members of the family are often made slaves to the whims and caprices of the hysterical member.
The sensitive, refined neuropath finds the normal person insipid and dull; the normal person is rendered uncomfortable by the morbid caprices of the neuropath.
Her caprices were scrupulously followed, while about her jealousy and slanders were thick.
There the majestic colonnade of trunks opens out, with the condescension of giants, before the caprices of an undulating glade.
Thus he perpetuates the fantasy of things through that of his own taste; he eternalizes the most delicious caprices of nature.
Though this last gleam of the setting sun touched the tree-tops only, it enabled the eye to see distinctly the caprices of that marvellous tapestry which nature makes of a forest in autumn.
For several days past Madame Graslin had not left the house, and she seemed to be tormented by several of those caprices attributed to women in her condition.
Of the wife elect, her bones, her debts, and her caprices may be the only realities which she can bestow on her husband.
Every soul of them depends as much on that one man's honour and caprices as puppets do who nod or shake their wooden heads just as the fellow behind the curtain thinks proper to move the wires.
Her marriage was merely one of her caprices de coeur.
I am a woman, and may surely be forgiven any little caprices de coeur.
Courage is not sufficient to drag us out of it; our efforts must not be incessantly brought to nought by the caprices of a passion.
Their wishes, their pleasures, are subordinated to thecaprices of that other life outside of their own; to them the only dreadful future is to lose him.
Every government must feel that their power will always be tottering and precarious, so long as it depends for support on the phantoms of religion, the errors of the people, and the caprices of the priesthood.
A son, who fears the anger, and dreads the capricesof a father, can never love him sincerely.
It represents them as gods upon earth; it causes their very caprices to be respected as the will of heaven itself.
By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
When the sky is troubled, as it is to-day, it adds all its own strange caprices to the grandeur of the lines.
Were there not enough other mongrel children in all the earth through whom heredity could establish her heartless caprices without the sacrifice of Helen and of Helen's baby!
Was he a born genius, like Byron and Burns, or was he merely a most industrious worker, aided by fortunate circumstances and thecaprices of fashion?
She was a woman of caprices and eccentricities, and not at all fitted to superintend the education of her wayward boy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caprices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
