All 4 Uses of
whim
in
The Idiot
- All observed how irritable and cross she had become since her last burst of laughter; but none the less obstinately did she stick to her absurd whim about this new game.†
Chpt 1.13whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation
- I don't know how it was that I ever could have indulged the whim of entering an honest family like his.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- I have detained you...I wanted to tell you everything...I thought you all...for the last time...it was a whim...†
Chpt 2.10
- The general argued that it was only a whim of Aglaya's; and that, had not Prince S. unfortunately made that remark, which had confused the child and made her blush, she never would have said what she did; and that he was sure Aglaya knew well that anything she might have heard of the prince and Nastasia Philipovna was merely the fabrication of malicious tongues, and that the woman was going to marry Rogojin.†
Chpt 4.5