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a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation

They flew to Paris on a whim.

whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
Annie Dillard
Each spare moment in the boys' daily schedule was spent catering to Mr. Krupp's every whim.
Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)

whim = unimportant wish or desire that has no logical explanation

Therefore it cannot be destroyed by the whim of one.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation

Say he got to depend on your whim.
August Wilson -- The Piano Lesson

whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation (and so in not dependable or predictable)

It is an airy and comfortable room as any one need wish, and, of course, I would not be so silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a whim.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

whim = sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation

This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.
Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
It is but a whim of mine.
Dickens, Charles -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Indeed, Van Baerle's happiness depended on the whim of this man.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Black Tulip
It was his whim to drink beer, and to have me drink beer with him.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
Just for a whim of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone in the country.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
As Americans, we want peace — we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
George W. Bush
Those memories of days when I, a slave To the whims and quirks of males, Was but a demoniac fool and the street was all my shelter.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
She always carried the fear that she could he sent hack on a whim, even though repatriation had long been over.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
Farmers live on the whim of the weather and the ground.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
On a whim, I pick up a newspaper.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
You remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
TITANIA If her whims the wife control, And the man berate her, Take him to the Northern Pole, And her to the Equator!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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