by turns

Alzheimer’s, like many progressive diseases, is, by turns, heart-wrenching, demoralizing and draining.

He suggested the central pair's friendship "rings false", adding: "What should be piercing, impassioned moments are by turns frivolous and sappy."

The children thought it all a great game; by turns they pretended they were moles in dark tunnels, or explorers charting an unmapped jungle, or Postal Tygers delivering the mail along an unfamiliar route.

The recently promoted soloist expanded his choreography’s bounding and spinning challenges into a dimension all his own—when sprung in the air, he hung there, still; when grounded by turns, he rotated like some serene tornado.

The actors in “Rashomon” were all at the peak of their powers—Machiko Kyo as the noblewoman, by turns pleading and vicious; Takashi Shimura, whose woodcutter comes to accept his own cowardice; Masayuki Mori as the noble samurai, so fearful of losing face in the eyes of his wife; and most charismatic of all, Mifune, scratching himself and slapping away mosquitoes as his bandit insolently declares his desire for the lady on the pale horse.