Translation for "ser arbitraria" to english

Ser arbitraria

• be arbitrary

Translation examples

be arbitrary

No pretendo ser arbitrario, pero... ¿para qué malgastar su tiempo discutiendo sobre lo inevitable?
Not that I wish to be arbitrary, but why should I waste your time in discussing what's inevitable?

Mire, Mark, no quiero ser arbitrario... sobre este tema de Hobart, si está tan interesado.
Look, Mark, I don't want to be arbitrary... about this Hobart business, if you're so set on it.

Esta muestra de poder no podía ser arbitraria.
This show of power couldn't be arbitrary.

El orden puede ser arbitrario, violento y cruel.
Order may be arbitrary, harsh, and cruel.

Se estaban creando colonias por todo el país en las que hospedar a los niños. La destinación podía ser arbitraria.
Up and down the country, they were establishing ‘colonies’ in which to house the children, and the destination for each niño could be arbitrary.

Segura de que aún no había oído su nombre, pues no había captado nada que me permitiera entenderlo bien o mal, en este caso tenía que ser arbitraria, y decidí aventurarme y convertirle en Richard, tal como aquellas gentes llamaban a Richard: Ryszard.
Certain that I had not yet heard his name, for his name I’d been neither cued nor miscued, I would have to be arbitrary, I decided to plunge ahead and make of him a Richard, their Richard: Ryszard.

Lo evidente, en todo caso, es que esa ilimitada libertad que tiene el autor para crear a su narrador y dotarlo de atributos (moverlo, ocultarlo, exhibirlo, acercarlo, alejarlo y mudarlo en narradores diferentes o múltiples dentro de un mismo punto de vista espacial o saltando entre distintos espacios) no es ni puede ser arbitraria, debe estar justificada en función del poder de persuasión de la historia que esa novela cuenta.
What is evident, in any event, is that the author’s unlimited freedom in creating and manipulating his narrator (moving him, hiding him, exhibiting him, bringing him into the foreground, pushing him into the background, turning him into different narrators or multiple narrators within a single spatial point of view, or leaping between different spaces) is not, nor can it ever be, arbitrary, but must find its justification in the novel’s power of persuasion.