alternately

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These alternately grave and impish modes recur throughout the show, aptly subtitled “Serious Play,” often combining in a single image.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

The result is alternately charming and clashing — why, I wondered, isn’t the animation done in a 1970s style to better complement the film?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Elizabeth is also the conscience of the piece, befriending the Creature and being alternately attracted to Victor and repulsed by what she sees as his moral degeneracy—never mind his abdication of parental responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

From the time he first saw her, when he was twelve and she was seventeen, he was deeply in love with her, alternately awkward and witty in her presence.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison