fickleness

But even a casual student of Arab history can quote too many examples of Bedouin fickleness for one to credit the legends with their face value.

The Lesson of Iraq 1969

But even a casual student of Arab history can quote too many examples of Bedouin fickleness for one to credit the legends with their face value.

The Lesson of Iraq 1958

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) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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 1997

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 1905

Tokugawa period, the idea of fickleness would not have occurred to us; on the contrary, the dominant impression would have been that of the permanence and fixity of her life and customs.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

Speaking of Caleb Cushing, he told me that the unreliability, the fickleness, which is usually attributed to him, is an actual characteristic, but that it is intellectual, not moral.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Speaking of Caleb Cushing, he told me that the unreliability, the fickleness, which is usually attributed to him, is an actual characteristic, but that it is intellectual, not moral.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Can you imagine this kind of fickleness in our foriegn policy? joe

McAuliffe debunks AP report 2008

Subsequently they soon changed with the fickleness which is equally characteristic of Celts.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871