wavering

It’s the perfect setting, in other words, for a novel by Mr. Banville, who is a master of shadow and suggestion and whose protagonists are often elusive, wavering and easily corrupted.

None of them have shown signs of wavering.

“And when the confidence is wavering, the execution is off,” Friedman said.

Ready to contest her seventh World Championships - which she says is her lucky number - Johnson-Thompson does not currently feel her sense of purpose in the sport wavering.

Its relationship with the North has had its ups and downs, wavering between open hostility and hopeful engagement.