vacillation

Example Sentences

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But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

Lois’ reticence about him mirrors our own vacillation with the DC Universe’s new direction: We need to see something more from this guy before we commit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

But Kim said his self-defence force "can not be bartered nor be bought with anything" and will be held firm without the slightest vacillation despite harsh trials and difficulties.

From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2022

Even as Germany was expanding its territories against a backdrop of international vacillation, it was forming political alliances.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Independently of the moral direction of the will, its innate strength or weakness, its steadiness or vacillation, proportionably augment or diminish the power of all the other faculties.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich