All 12 Uses of
capricious
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Her beautiful face followed, with singular mobility, all the caprices of her song, from the wildest inspiration to the chastest dignity.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches, rich in painted windows and sculpture; pointed in form, bold in attitude; communal and bourgeois as political symbols; free, capricious, lawless, as a work of art; second transformation of architecture, no longer hieroglyphic, immovable and sacerdotal, but artistic, progressive, and popular, which begins at the return from the crusades, and ends with Louis IX.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- The trunk of a tree is immovable; the foliage is capricious.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- the capricious regulations regarding the public highways
Chpt 1.3.2 *capricious = unpredictable
- The capricious ravine of streets did not cut this block of houses into too disproportionate slices.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Fancy and caprice, welcome.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the consecration of the primitive types, the constant bending of all the forms of men and of nature to the incomprehensible caprices of the symbol.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- There, every individual work, however capricious and isolated it may seem, has its place and its projection.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- A single pointed window, narrowly encased in the thick wall, illuminated with a pale ray of January sun two grotesque figures,—the capricious demon of stone carved as a tail-piece in the keystone of the vaulted ceiling, and the judge seated at the end of the hall on the fleurs-de-lis.†
Chpt 1.6.1
- In the place of the gypsy, on the carpet, whose arabesques had seemed to vanish but a moment previously by the capricious figures of her dance, the archdeacon no longer beheld any one but the red and yellow man, who, in order to earn a few testers in his turn, was walking round the circle, with his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face red, his neck outstretched, with a chair between his teeth.†
Chpt 2.7.2
- One was constantly conscious of the presence of a spirit of noise and caprice, who sang through all those mouths of brass.†
Chpt 2.7.3
- He distrusted the capriciousness of women.†
Chpt 2.9.5
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior