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
It just captures this vacillation of the human experience so perfectly for me — like, I’m dancing, I’m driving in the dark.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024
Once I decided to quit, I acted, with no endless vacillation.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
He quit the leadership of the party in July 2019 after months of vacillation but remains a hugely influential figure within the Congress, a fact that Azad said had stalled any significant internal reforms.
From Reuters • Aug. 26, 2022
Beethoven, indeed, perceived the vacillation on the stage and in the orchestra, but was not sensible that he was the principal cause of it, through his intent listening and retarding the time.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
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