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vagary

vay guh ree

  • n  an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)

  • It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven court-martials, never for anything more serious than "butting an .
  • Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken .
  • Written by Giuseppe Verdi for the Paris Opera in 1855, it had something to please every vagary of the self-indulgent French musical taste of the timefive acts, a lengthy ballet .
Quotes

  • Taro Aso in Independent
    ...clearest public sign of that came in June when, just before the meeting of world leaders at the G8 in Italy, the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, asked: "Is the current food crisis just another market vagary?"
  • Martin Luther King in San Francisco Chronicle
    Man is more than a tiny vagary of whirling electrons or a wisp of smoke from a limitless smoldering. Man is a child of God made in his image,King said in the sermon.

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