• In calm and workaday Lisbon, Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a lonely, low-key, middle-aged social activist, gently pursued by a gentleman artist, finds her elderly neighbor, Aurora (Laura Soveral), a capricious faded beauty, in decline and struggling under the loving care of a home attendant.

    NEWYORKER: Tabu

  • While EU nations have made a great progress in pulling their resources together, they do remain a collection of capricious brides that find hard to lead a common life, a situation that can turn worse as European economies face a full-blown recession.

    FORBES: EU: A Collection of Capricious Brides

  • Business figures accused the government of a capricious approach to executive pay.

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  • It may need some help from outsiders with marketing and product placement, but diversification probably makes more sense than just sticking with a capricious federal customer as the walls close in.

    FORBES: After Bin Laden, What Next For The Defense Industry?

  • Arbitrary, capricious government is a major reason that Argentina has a lagging, perennially troubled economy and that it's no longer one of the richest nations in the world, as it was 100 years ago.

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  • "What it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are, how vulnerable all people of color are, and all poor people, to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman, " Gates said.

    NPR: Sergeant Who Arrested Gates Tells His Story

  • It tells of a strange child's forlorn travels through the universe after quitting his native planet, B-612, to escape a vain, capricious rose.

    ECONOMIST: Hunting for Saint-Exup��ry

  • The future of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, a joint venture between southern capital and northern labour, is in doubt following a series of capricious demands by Pyongyang.

    ECONOMIST: South Korean politics

  • Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.

    NEWYORKER: Posse

  • Mohsen doesn't remember much from that period, but he's certain that his happiness was complete, that no one challenged his outbursts of laughter or condemned him for being a spoiled, capricious child.

    NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

  • Even though Kirchner has expressed strong support for national industry (which also benefited from the countryb s economic growth), it is pretty obvious that the private sector knows that its power can be curtailed by a random and capricious president.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat

  • Still, they appear capricious, raising their target after a period of strong stockmarket returns and lowering it during the lean years.

    ECONOMIST: Stockmarket valuations

  • After its authoritarian and capricious president, Alexander Lukashenka, won a crushing victory in a rigged election last year, there seemed little hope for change in Europe's least democratic country.

    ECONOMIST: Belarus

  • Within minutes, the back of the circuit was soaking, while it remained dry in the vicinity of the pits - not an unusual situation at a track renowned for its capricious weather.

    BBC: Hamilton stripped of Belgian win

  • Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused them as "behaving like capricious little children" for failing to agree on a location for the talks, which had been due to take place this month.

    BBC: Iran denies reports of explosion at Fordo nuclear site

  • If that seems capricious, consider the alternative: anyone could hang out a shingle and declare themselves an expert.

    FORBES: Lack Of Authenticating Expert Renders Valuable Artwork Practically Worthless

  • The methodology is arbitrary, capricious, utterly unrepresentative of economic reality, and it creates a cloud of uncertainty that essentially deters U.S. importers from purchasing Chinese products that could potentially be targeted by U.S. industries.

    FORBES: Soured U.S.-China Relationship Approaches Inflection Point

  • Mr. Menzel's "Capricious Summer" (1968) fuses comedy and social commentary in a toothsome admixture set in the Bohemian countryside.

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  • In January India's Supreme Court sided with Vodafone in a ruling that many hoped would bring stability to India's capricious treatment of foreign investors.

    ECONOMIST: Business this week

  • Jackson portrays the holy man, Reuben, as near-saintly and a good listener, until he unexpectedly whacks Katie with his huge walking stick for her capricious ways.

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  • "I love a great unreliable narrator, " said Ms. Flynn, whose twisted novel alternates between two capricious narrators.

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  • They are irrelevant as to the issues under discussion, they violate basic and well established principles of law, they are arbitrary, capricious, biased and discriminatory and give rise to both civil and criminal liability, not only against the IOC as a sporting governing body, but also against certain individuals of the Movement.

    BBC: Exchange of letters between Thanou and IOC

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