Vacillating

As a movement it is diffuse and vacillating and shows a distinct reluctance to candidly own and freely confess of the interpretive tradition bequeathed to us by the English Reformers.

Being a Hornets fan is a treatise in vacillating hope and deflation.

Germany must authorise the tank deliveries it has been vacillating over and other allies must provide the technology and materiel Ukraine is pleading for.

True, former president Rodrigo Duterte botched any attempt to engineer a favorable succession after haplessly vacillating between supporting either his consiglieri or daughter.

While the camera does manage to pull in a decent amount of light, it doesn’t always manage light intelligently, often vacillating between underexposure and overexposure, both of which look fairly bad.

Yennefer spends the majority of Season 1 vacillating between being a villain and being an anti-hero, with the deeply seeded baggage of her abusive early life playing a key factor in her personal identity.

It has been caught in the lie that a chest-thumping Modi can do better than a vacillating Nehru.

A major Franco-Spanish fleet was lost at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, prompting the vacillating king of Spain to reconsider his difficult alliance with Napoleon.

During his imprisonment, he reportedly would observe some fellow inmates having strange, vacillating behaviour.

Gay (2002, 158) Garrick's portrayal focused on the inner life of the character, endowing him with an innocence vacillating between good and evil, and betrayed by outside influences.

In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasized.

Polk was a strong proponent of immediate annexation, while Clay seemed more equivocal and vacillating.