All 4 Uses of
whim
in
War and Peace
- Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country.†
Chpt 1 *
- When he afterwards recalled that impulse to unsolicited and inexplicable frankness which had very important results for him, it seemed to him—as it seems to everyone in such cases—that it was merely some silly whim that seized him: yet that burst of frankness, together with other trifling events, had immense consequences for him and for all his family.†
Chpt 12
- Sonya kept house, attended on her aunt, read to her, put up with her whims and secret ill-will, and helped Nicholas to conceal their poverty from the old countess.†
Chpt 15
- Pierre's subjection consisted in the fact that he not only dared not flirt with, but dared not even speak smilingly to, any other woman; did not dare dine at the Club as a pastime, did not dare spend money on a whim, and did not dare absent himself for any length of time, except on business—in which his wife included his intellectual pursuits, which she did not in the least understand but to which she attributed great importance.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(whim) a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation