fickleness

How To Use fickleness In A Sentence

• It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
• It is the lust of a mother (not, say, an uncle) that so tortures Shakespeare's Hamlet ( "Frailty, thy name is woman"), a girl's sexual fickleness that takes out the hero in Troilus and Cressida, a queen's love for an ass that brings down the house in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
• To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
• The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (v. 9): I will yet plead with you. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Perhaps his ability to weather the ebb and flow of public fickleness lies in his sheer affability and generosity of spirit.
• This is the thing which some fools call fickleness; but which is not the death of feeling, but rather its dreadful perpetuation; this shyness is the final seal of strong sentiment; this coldness is an eternal constancy. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
• He had not prosecuted Kerzner and Bloomberg, because it would have been "no less than foolish" of him to go to court with a witness who put a gloss on his own participation in events, especially when his fickleness was a matter of public record. ANC Daily News Briefing
• One cause of the change was, no doubt, what is commonly called the fickleness of the multitude, but what seems to us to be merely the general law of human nature. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
• Shopping embodies and encourages some of the worst traits in human nature - greed, vanity and fickleness.
• What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing what is wrong. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth