All 3 Uses of
whim
in
The Remains of the Day
- There was always the possibility, of course, that his suggestion of a fortnight ago may have been a whim of the moment, and he would no longer be approving of the idea.†
Chpt Prol. *whim = a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation
- It could simply be that a meaningless whim had suddenly overtaken me at that moment — but that is hardly a convincing way to account for such distinctly odd behaviour.†
Chpt 2a -
- But it would not be unfair to suggest that many butlers of, say, my father's generation did not consider the matter such a key one, and this is evidenced by the fact that in those days, the butler of a household rarely supervised the polishing of silver directly, being content to leave it to, say, the under-butler's whims, carrying out inspections only intermittently.†
Chpt 3m -whims = sudden desires that arises without any logical explanation