| 单词 | vacillating |
| 例句 | A few days later, he was back in a funk, vacillating again; he didn’t want to act like he hadn’t made a terrible choice. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Why, what do you make out that they done with their buttons then, Jack?” asked the landlord, vacillating weakly. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Jam could see a whole river of things in his face, currents shifting and swelling, vacillating from grief to fury. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z No dreaming or vacillating for That Petrol Emotion who deride those who would flee the fight in their single Big Decision: "You gotta agitate, educate, organise." Readers recommend: songs about leftwing politics – results 2013-04-18T10:56:59Z While waiting for his trial, Fogel kept a diary, pouring out his vacillating emotions, from optimism to despair and back again. This American teacher also sits in a Russian jail, worried nobody cares 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But neither the score — vacillating between bustling churn and lurid surges — nor this staging has made Clyde and Roberta’s illicit relationship anything more than an innocuous excuse for mild duets. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z He and Pelly also haven't found a way to make the vacillating Robert someone we care about, admittedly not an easy task. Review: Meyerbeer's rare 'Robert' staged in London 2012-12-13T11:21:08Z Jones couldn’t be better as an editor vacillating in the murky zone of how-much-can-we-get-away-with. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z There are unfortunately no guarantees that being suggestible and susceptible and vacillating will lead to good writing. Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But in a relentlessly monochrome production, she deals with politics weakly, vacillating between forcing the point and not making it at all. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z From this conflict arises a fantastical array of other stories, pitched to the vacillating king. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z O’Donnell, meanwhile, has a facility with vacillating between softer approaches and drilling into tough lines of questioning. New CBS nightly news anchor Norah O'Donnell's morning show past is an asset now 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The play is generous with its double perspective: Agamemnon is vacillating and cornered; Menelaus is selfish yet not heartless; and everyone would choose the easy way out if it were a viable option. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z No surprise, then, that Josie seems perpetually lacerated with impatience and self-doubt, vacillating between a restless urge to keep moving and a weariness with life on the road. Review: Dave Eggers’s New Novel, ‘Heroes of the Frontier’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The second act focuses on a political meeting in Sophiatown in 1955: the inhabitants are being forced out, and Mandela is vacillating between peaceful protest and armed struggle. Saint and sinner: the Nelson Mandela opera 2012-06-10T16:59:01Z He hardly considered Labour party policy on Spain as policy at all, vacillating as it did between supporting ‘democracy’ on the one hand and the ‘Republic’ on the other: both positions entirely rhetorical. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z In the courtroom, Clark often looks hurt and confused, but she is the life of the party in Oakland, vacillating between jokes about O.J.’s innocence and presenting the rigid, undeniable facts of his guilt. ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Season 1, Episode 7: The Glove 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He isn't, as Miliband is accused of being, weak, vacillating, unadventurous and academic. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z Tris, too, seems becalmed and unsure, vacillating between David’s professed humanitarianism and Four’s insistence that evil is afoot. Review: ‘Allegiant’ Diverges as the End Nears 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z I'll try to identify these vacillating emotions as they come and to acknowledge them, as I encourage my kids to do. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z We were tender and awkward, vacillating between passion and pain. Please Go Shelter in Another Place 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He was the vacillating prince of “Hamlet” in 1975 and that pompous windbag Polonius in the same play 33 years later. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z His musings, vacillating between elation and suffering, tie together a motley array of six vocal, choral and orchestral pieces the composer wished to preserve from earlier in his career. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z As the Civil War raged toward conclusion, Douglass attacked Lincoln for vacillating on black rights in the South. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In her new memoir, she takes on loneliness, vacillating between hope and fear and, ultimately, stumbling into something profound. Lane Moore turns a dismal childhood into laughs 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z There would have been no vacillating and weak Wilson to help write the punitive Versailles Treaty, never ratified by the US Congress, and perhaps no rise of Nazism in Germany. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z At the time, I’d been vacillating over joining for more than one calendar year, ever since a friend had told me that the locker rooms have eucalyptus steam rooms. The straight cis men at a corporate gym helped save my trans soul 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Stephen Campbell Moore takes the same approach to Titus, he presents us with a man who, however weak and vacillating, knows he is ultimately trapped by the obligations of empire. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z He’s certainly deserving, vacillating between confusion, acceptance, anger, and pathos sometimes in the same scene. Who will scoop Emmy awards on Sunday? Our critics go head to head 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But that vacillating line is the very point of the show. Review: Donny Deutsch’s ‘Donny!,’ a Crass, Infuriating Talk Show Host 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z If its blank it’s probably because I was vacillating. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Tabatha Coffey 2012-02-09T17:57:39Z But it’s Frédérique who steals the show, and Ms. Clément plays her as a vacillating mess of empathy, fury and grief. Movie Review: A Man Becomes a Woman in ‘Laurence Anyways’ 2013-06-28T02:31:06Z “People get led astray on a night like last night by vacillating space needles,” says Jesse Ferguson, a former Hillary Clinton spokesman. It’s not you, Nate. It’s us. (And maybe a little you.) 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Mr. DeBellevue may be trying to conjure a brooding, Nauman-esque vision of the artist’s life, with lots of productive puttering and vacillating in the studio. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z That monologue, if you recall, compares the alleged nobility, honesty, kindness and decency of men with the “exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags” of the opposite sex. Music Review: Betty Buckley at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-10-06T19:55:50Z Still, I could have raptly watched these sad, vacillating creatures for another hour or so, because the actresses embodying them keep surprising you. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z Olav, who fancies himself something of a writer, turns out to be an irritating narrator, vacillating between self-pity and hard-boiled tough-guy poses, trying to channel Chandler or Hammett or James M. Cain. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In their feature on the vacillating fiction of the value of this property, they break down a number of instances where Trump, with Weisselberg by his side, boasted the inflated figures. CFO called out for fudging the value of Trump Tower Penthouse while under oath 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, being the center of such wildly vacillating public opinion took its toll. You don't have to be a Swiftie to love Taylor Swift. The Eras tour movie premiere proves it 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z But Cohen also said he was “compelled to comment upon the vacillating positions of the City of Atlanta throughout this litigation.” Judge blames Atlanta officials for confusion over ‘Stop Cop City’ referendum campaign 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z They're constantly in a state of vacillating between reality and the "What if?" and the sense of guilt, which keeps them in rumination. "We are a grief illiterate society": A psychotherapist on how to navigate loss in an era of excess 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Strait and the 11-piece band spent much of the night vacillating between up-tempo ditties that often turn a bit of sorrow into a winking good time and slower, more heavy-hearted fare. The King of Country rocks Seattle for the first time in nearly a decade 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Fuller added that the incident was “more of a detox issue” than a crime scene and said the woman had been “vacillating between cooperative and combative.” Seattle police release body-camera footage of response to hotel incident with Avalanche star Nichushkin, woman 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Democrats have spent the last decade vacillating between stiffer border restrictions and efforts to soften and humanize immigration policy — exposing deep rifts on how best to address broader problems. Immigration reform stalled decade after Gang of 8’s big push 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Reagan exploited the unrest at Berkeley to discredit his Democratic opponent, Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Sr., as weak and vacillating in a crisis. Column: How DeSantis' attack on education draws from Ronald Reagan's war on UC Berkeley 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Blame the coronavirus pandemic for the wildly vacillating supply and demand over the past two years: a surplus of unsold cookies in 2021 and supply chain issues in 2022. Girl Scout cookies crumble under supply chain woes, labor shortage 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Internal Fox messages revealed in court filings Tuesday as part of a defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems showed Carlson vacillating on his support for Trump after the 2020 election. Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Through the commotion, Trippie commands attention with his vocals, vacillating between cartoonish warbles and metal screams in the blink of an eye. Trippie Redd proves there's life after SoundCloud rap 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z It is the most complicated of relationships, vacillating between warmth and combat, sometimes on the same day. Biden and Netanyahu Gear Up for a Complicated New Era 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z O’Farrell’s manipulation of time and point of view keeps us vacillating between sympathy and skepticism. Review | In Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘The Marriage Portrait,’ matrimony leads to death 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z His final years, in a cottage near the sea, were spent vacillating between optimism about mankind’s resilience and dread about its refusal to deal with the perils at hand. James Lovelock, creator of Gaia theory of ‘living’ Earth, dies at 103 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Namely, that a team still vacillating between being either a longshot wild-card contender or falling entirely out of the race, will be severely depleted at the precise time they were finally heating up. Baseball brawls may bring bonding, but Mariners will be hurting from suspensions 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z And with Barrett, he gave the conservative bloc the five votes they need to prevail without the vacillating chief justice. Opinion | For the fall of Roe v. Wade, thank Donald Trump 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z With the deadline looming, six small-business owners who spoke to The New York Times criticized what they said were confusing and at times vacillating communications about the service change. Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Of course, the next day Biden had to double down on exactly what he had said the day before, and the whole thing made him look weak and vacillating. Joe Biden is finding out that "better than Trump" is not nearly good enough 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The agony of unquenchable desire creates a weird emotional triangle that keeps her vacillating between “the fear of abandonment and the dread of togetherness.” Review | Jokha Alharthi’s ‘Bitter Orange Tree’ is a taste of extravagant grief 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z That role has kept him vacillating on the threshold of adulthood, though he’s only a year younger than his sister. Review | ‘Young Mungo’ seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The nearly inevitable result was that federal policy looked vacillating, or indecisive, further undermining northern support for Reconstruction policy. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The comments are the clearest sign that China’s government, after vacillating between open support and private backing, is sticking with Mr. Putin in the crisis. China blames U.S. for inciting Ukraine conflict 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z One source says that Giuliani is vacillating between providing an informal interview or a formal deposition. Rudy Giuliani may be testifying before the Jan. 6 Committee 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The letter claims Foley’s mistakes included vacillating on pricing strategy and demonstrating a repeated inability to forecast consumer demand. Shareholder wants Peloton to consider selling the company 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The government has had an ambivalent response to criticism of its handling of the pandemic, with officials vacillating between apologies and defensiveness over the past few months. British government’s early pandemic response was a historic public health failure, lawmakers say 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Sen. Rand Paul, for example, was recently silenced by YouTube for his continued criticism of mask mandates and the vacillating positions of high-profile public officials. Tucker Carlson: ‘Legacy media’ now a censorship machine for Silicon Valley, must be replaced 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z In these moments, I find myself vacillating between sorrow and a bittersweet joy. Perspective | Covid has brought death and grief. But grief can keep lost loved ones alive in our hearts. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z I find myself vacillating between two images of blindness. Is There a Right Way to Act Blind? 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Today, as President Biden pursues a broad agenda on infrastructure, voting rights and climate change, Mr. Manchin, the vacillating 50th vote in Democrats’ control of the Senate, has become perhaps his party’s most contentious figure. What Drives Joe Manchin? Frustrated Democrats Can Look to West Virginia. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Let’s listen in on the internal battle raging within one vacillating fan’s brain Tuesday. Some Seattle fans may need convincing before getting on the first-place Mariners’ bandwagon 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z He was also often criticized for vacillating on the party’s position on the crucial issue facing Britain during his leadership: Brexit. Labour Party Suspends Jeremy Corbyn Over Anti-Semitism Response 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Trump’s vacillating response in the ensuing days came to mark one of the defining sequences of his presidency. Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s presidency and become key issue as election nears 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Trump’s assertion of authority over how states handle religious gatherings is the latest salvo in his vacillating approach to the outbreak. Trump tells states to let houses of worship open, sparking cultural and political fight over pandemic restrictions 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z He is a fool, an irresolute, vacillating imbecile. Opinion | ‘I believe I am treated worse,’ Trump says. As if. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But in the current political moment, it appears the Democratic electorate longs less for a politician who is consistent from day to day than one who can provide pragmatic leadership to unseat the vacillating Trump. Pragmatism beats consistency: Why Democrats picked Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “In this unprecedented situation, when everything seems to be vacillating, let us help each other remain steady in what really matters,” he said. Catholics worldwide pray with pope for end to coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z With the impeachment trial vacillating between fiasco and tragedy, it’s tempting to see our glasses as half empty and draining rapidly. Opinion | I wish you’d never happened, Donald Trump. But I’m grateful for you, too. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z For the last three presidential elections, Iowa has been a barometer of the nation’s vacillating political sentiments. Can Democrats Beat Trump in Iowa in November? 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z After vacillating for a couple years, he also mired the U.S., however indirectly, in the Syrian civil war, empowering Islamist factions there and worsening that already staggering humanitarian catastrophe. The American chaos machine: U.S. foreign policy goes off the rails 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Trump has fanned the debate by vacillating between hawkish and more-isolationist positions, while conferring with representatives from both camps. Trump’s Iran gambit reveals ideological rift between hawks and isolationists in his base 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z You could call them unprincipled, opportunistic, cowardly, spineless, vacillating, fainthearted, jittery or dissolute. Press Watch: Democrats who are undecided on impeachment aren't "moderates." They're hacks 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z That means when people are judging Corbyn not as a leader of the left but as a potential prime minister, he looks weak and vacillating. Britain's big election, and ours: David Kogan on "a critical turning point" in left history 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Dafoe, though, likens it to a musical with a rhythm vacillating between activity and meditation. Pattinson and Dafoe on the oddities of ‘The Lighthouse’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The main opposition Labour Party is itself deeply split over Brexit, and appears to be vacillating about whether to launch a motion of no-confidence to try and bring Johnson down. Johnson flies back to face UK parliament as Brexit chaos deepens 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z One senior administration official close to Bolton described him as frustrated with the president’s vacillating positions, his willingness to meet with any world leader without conditions and dysfunction within the administration. Trump disparages his ousted national security adviser, saying he made ‘some very big mistakes’ 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z “I’m pretty solid with going back and forth,” Leni said of vacillating between the positions. True to their word, UCLA's Toailoa brothers making an impact on defense 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But the Democratic Party's leadership is also sending mixed signals, vacillating between being relatively direct about their desire to remove Trump from office and then signaling a clear lack of enthusiasm for actually doing so. Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe: Framers would tell us to impeach him right now 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Pressed on whether he would confiscate existing guns, Mr. Biden’s vacillating underscored the dilemma facing the candidates. 2020 Democrats push gun confiscations, buybacks after mass shootings 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “You can’t beat President Trump with double-talk,” he said, accusing Ms. Harris of vacillating and equivocating in her health care plans. Joe Biden Did Fine, and That Might Have Been Enough 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Harris has already faced criticism that she has a pattern of vacillating on her positions or backing off previous statements, including on health care. Harris reaches for middle ground on health care, and is immediately attacked 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Labor, after years of vacillating and ineffectual opposition to Howard’s policies, has long since capitulated on all of the important points. The USA is imprisoning people it finds undesirable. Australia has already lived this nightmare | Jason Wilson 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The problem here is not only that Biden appears weak and vacillating on an issue of conscience — which he does. Opinion | Abortion supporters have made Trump’s reelection more likely 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Serena has been vacillating between sympathetic antagonist and hard villain since the beginning, and the writers keep refusing to pick a side. Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale finally prioritizes revolution 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z As evident in the audio, Melissa later described Karlie’s behavior as vacillating between paranoid and excited – scared at one moment and wanting to paint toenails and color books at another. She wanted to read the Bible and said she was scared: uncomfortable questions surround the case of missing California teen 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He knew what she was asking, and yet, he struggled for some moments to acquire the language in which to convey the vacillating forms of his experience. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Behind these is a complex system of vacillating astrophysical influences that include the eccentricity and shape of Earth’s orbit, the tilt of its axis and the movements of the Sun. Human evolution’s ties to tectonics 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Not wanting to irk the booker by heckling, I felt powerless as I sat silently next to the friends who had come out to see me, vacillating between fury and embarrassment. Perspective | ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ exposes sexism in 1950s comedy. But it’s not just a relic from the past. 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z No one knows, and the government itself appears unsure, vacillating between a more open approach and doubling down on the use of force to stop the unrest. France’s Yellow Vest Protests: A Briefing on the Movement That Has Put Paris on Edge 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Staying steady amid vacillating fortunes became a staple of the team’s approach. Stanford's David Shaw sees makings of a good UCLA football team 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Trump’s remarks reflect the vacillating strategies and views in the White House over its response and possible punishments toward one of its key Middle East allies. Trump says it appears that missing journalist Khashoggi is dead 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” Kavanaugh told lawmakers on the Senate judiciary committee, vacillating between shouting and breaking down in tears. 'You'll never get me to quit': Kavanaugh delivers angry rebuke to Senate panel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The confusion was fed by Trump’s vacillating statements about the summit. AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s week of unreal claims on Russia, NATO 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z “If so, the Pakistanis will once again have taken the measure of a vacillating United States,” Mr. Sedney said. White House Orders Direct Taliban Talks to Jump-Start Afghan Negotiations 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z But after spending the past 18 years vacillating between Mexico’s two dominant parties, voters appear increasingly willing to try something else. The Firebrand Leftist Far Ahead in Mexico’s Presidential Polls 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Of course there are moments at which to titter, but it’s hard to get the ship of the story turned back around toward earnest seriousness when it keeps vacillating in tone. ‘On Chesil Beach’: Uneven bedroom drama follows a disastrous honeymoon 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In typical Trumpian language, the president lamented “a truly sad moment in history”, his tone vacillating sharply between congenial and aggressively threatening war. ‘It’s a nightmare scenario’: how Trump’s North Korea spectacle fits his pattern 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He ranted against vacillating Western governments that lacked the muscle of their colonial forebears. Bernard Lewis was the doyen of Orientalists 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It was the latest turn in a bewildering negotiating process that has sent the president vacillating between taking a tough stance on China and saying he would try to help the country recover lost jobs. Trump Denies Reaching Deal With China on ZTE 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z How accurate would it be, however, to depict the vacillating Al Gore, who was sometimes described as a populist in 2000, as some kind of proto-Napoleon? Forget Trump – populism is the cure, not the disease 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Just as today’s cause is, in part, a break from traditional far-right German anti-Semitism, the government’s vacillating response is a break from its willingness to confront that traditional anti-Semitism. Opinion | Germany must confront its new wave of anti-Semitism — even if those behind it aren’t German 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Berry spends the entirety of the film vacillating between hysterics and hugs. 'Kings' confounds with a take on the L.A. riots starring Halle Berry that’s largely naive 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Still, Caruso was vacillating between the two teams. Alex Caruso has made big strides over a year, all the way to Lakers' starting point guard 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z As the community waits for investigations to provide more answers, the Greater Sacramento area has struggled with how to respond, with protesters and city leaders vacillating between moments of unity and conflict. Signs of progress emerge as Sacramento protests over Stephon Clark’s killing remain tense 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Trump’s vacillating on the spending bill was just one in a series of recent instances that put the credibility of the White House’s words under a microscope. Trump’s impulses put White House credibility on the line 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z For Trump, vacillating constantly between competing policy positions is far from new. Is Trump moving to the centre on guns? Don't hold your breath 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The moment of recognition and the moment of repentance are not one and the same, and there is often a great deal of vacillating before one finally resolves to change. Opinion | The best strategy for the Parkland students: Go on strike 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “He sees himself as being strong, decisive and bold, and he sees Obama as being weak and vacillating and tentative,” Stone said. Trump’s ‘tougher on Russia’ claim fits a pattern of striving to one-up Obama 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Atta remains at his post, and his political party — which dominates the security forces and backed Abdullah for president — is vacillating between the two camps. Afghans, fearing more insurgent violence, feel abandoned by struggling government 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, he postures as a victim, vacillating between venomous outcries at his foes and the desperate need for validation from his fans. Opinion | My Kid’s First Lesson in Realpolitik 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But the episode was an early signpost of an often tumultuous life for her son, vacillating from swashbuckling fact-finding to bursts of trauma and back again. Fusion GPS Founder Hauled From the Shadows for the Russia Election Investigation 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The second was a more respectful but at times unflattering portrayal of his experiences as C.I.A. director and defense secretary for Barack Obama, whom he deemed smart but vacillating and overly cautious. For Trump, Book Raises Familiar Questions of Loyalty and Candor 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z After a timeout, a Stewart three-pointer tamped down that run, and the Trojans inched closer, the lead vacillating between five and eight. USC's season is taking a wrong turn with 103-93 overtime loss to Princeton – LA Times 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Two, the leader was a vacillating, indecisive person who drove his associates to exasperation with delays and shifts that resulted in organizational chaos. Opinion | Parallels to Hitler’s rise 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z But Hitler was, in reality, a vacillating, indecisive leader who drove his lieutenants, and later his military, to exasperation with his long delays and shifting, often contradictory decisions. Perspective | Five myths about Nazis 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Some of the opposition’s core supporters are disappointed at leaders they see as disorganized and weak, vacillating between agitating for Maduro’s removal and opting for dialogue. Venezuela opposition hopes for victory in regional elections 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z This time, he’s vacillating in a way that suggests his vote is up for grabs. The key players in Republicans’ last-ditch effort to kill the Affordable Care Act 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z At other clubs, executives, too, have come and gone: owners not trusting their own judgment, vacillating between concepts and advisers, unable to hear themselves think amid the deafening cultural dissonance. Love the Club. Loathe the American Owner. 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But for many Jews, the violence in Charlottesville on Saturday and Trump’s vacillating response were of a whole other order. For Jewish Americans, echoes of the Holocaust and anger over Trump's response to Charlottesville 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z While pressure and deal-making helped win over vacillating Republicans to begin debate, they remained fragmented over what to do next. Health Care Vote Shows GOP's Problems in Replacing Obamacare 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Mr. Hoovler acknowledged that in her statements she sometimes contradicted herself, and that “none of the defendant’s vacillating statements constituted a direct confession.” Conflicting Statements Led to Uncertainty in Kayak Death Case 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z While it’s good to consider all these questions before the technology is widely available, Doudna and Sternberg come to few conclusions, and their extended vacillating is the book’s sole flaw. Opinion | New gene-editing tool could cure disease. Or customize kids. Or aid bioterrorism. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z They shot just 42.5 percent in the first half, vacillating between moments of wonderful ball movement and poor decision making that contributed to eight early turnovers. Perspective | The only burying in Game 6 was on John Wall’s big three-pointer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The incoming president isn’t sure what the fuss is about, vacillating between calling climate change a “hoax” concocted by the Chinese or simply claiming that “nobody really knows” if it exists. Alaska indigenous people see culture slipping away as sea ice vanishes 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z They’re basic investigative steps that become essential given that studies show 60 to 80 percent of domestic-violence victims recant their allegations, sometimes vacillating between cooperating and recanting several times during the course of a case. A dedicated unit in the fight against domestic violence in King County 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z At the moment of realpolitik, ending mass incarceration has perhaps lost any capacity to attract new voters, especially whites who may be vacillating in their support for Trump. No “get out of jail free” card: Is the fight to end mass incarceration wasting away in Washington? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Spieth’s first order of business was defending why he is currently vacillating on participating in the upcoming Olympics in Rio. How Jordan Spieth has become the voice of his generation on the PGA Tour - Golf Digest 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z South Africa’s supreme court was unimpressed by Pistorius’s testimony, describing him as vacillating, untruthful and a “very poor witness”. Oscar Pistorius: Reeva wouldn't want me to waste my life behind bars 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The silence left Trump’s supporters, many of whom are already confused by his vacillating positions, with little guidance on how to counterattack. Donald Trump does not have a campaign 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It happened that her days spanned strings of triumphs and losses, the ratio vacillating. Fraying at the Edges: Her Fight to Live With Alzheimer’s 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z But football doesn’t get played on a spreadsheet, and that vacillating swine we call the human brain certainly doesn’t work in a logical manner. Watford v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Pistorius’ evidence was “vacillating and untruthful” when he testified about what he was thinking when he opened fire, the appeals court found. Oscar Pistorius denied chance to appeal and now faces sentencing for murder conviction 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Gradually, we went back to our dinner and to other subjects, but inevitably returned to politics, our mood vacillating between grief, sorrow and depression. Elif Shafak on Turkey’s turmoil: ‘Intimidation and paranoia dominates the land’ 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr Cruz hit back on Tuesday, accusing Mr Trump of "vacillating" on his campaign issues and policies. US election 2016: Donald Trump sweeps to victory in Nevada - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z “I am kind of vacillating whether I should lower it a little bit,” she said. Super Bowl 50: Residents list rentals at super-sized prices 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But football doesn’t get played on a spreadsheet, and that vacillating swine we call the human brain certainly doesn’t work in a logical manner. Watford v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z "I am kind of vacillating whether I should lower it a little bit," she said. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where high housing costs are notorious, residents looking to make a quick buck are offering their homes at super-sized prices to the 1 million visitors expected for Super Bowl 50 festivities 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Kennedy was accused of being weak and vacillating. Waging a Smarter, Better War 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z He has left you vacillating between awe and disappointment that he couldn’t tone down his style a little bit. During strange farewell tour, Kobe Bryant rediscovers greatness for one night in D.C. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Now new research suggests that an underlying cause for the weight gain may be the students’ widely vacillating patterns of sleep. Poor Sleep May Spur College Weight Gain 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But with the influx of newcomers, Europe is vacillating between gut-level humanitarian impulses and guilt-ridden cultural protectionism. Muslim Migrants, Meet Christian Gypsies 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z European bank bosses also blame changing regulations for their vacillating strategies. Banking and nothingness 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z His assorted, vacillating positions on immigration only serve to reinforce the criticism. On immigration, Marco Rubio remains at odds with Marco Rubio 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z First, the Chinese leadership expects the next U.S. president, whether a Democrat or a Republican, to be tougher to deal with than Mr. Obama, whom they’ve pegged as weak and vacillating. What Xi Jinping Offered in the U.S.: A Slight Shift in Tone 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Many Iraqis are growing more frustrated with the prime minister’s declarations, which they see as vacillating between resolve to overhaul the deadlocked political system and appeasement of opponents. Iraqi Premier’s Rule Again Questioned 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But beyond the verbal jabs, Graham emphasized his foreign policy credentials, and contrasted his more aggressive approach to combating terrorism to what he portrayed as Obama's vacillating and ultimately ineffective strategy. Who Made a Good First Impression? 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The emoji drama eventually converged on DeAndre Jordan’s Houston home, where the Clippers essentially barricaded their vacillating teammate away from the Mavericks. The Battle for DeAndre Jordan 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I think he kept vacillating, looking for what was best for him.” Analyzing Tiger Woods: 'Tiger obviously has problems, mentally, physically, technically': The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Such comments, it should be said, are most prevalent among those who have never led a party, who have never sought to persuade truculent, vacillating voters to back their side. Charles Kennedy: A political contact and a chum - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z We are also consumed with Europe’s wobbly economic state, and Greece’s vacillating position regarding its level of commitment to the European Union. Zoetis: A Bet On Activism 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Clippers' 102-96 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 served as a group hug for a team that needed one in its wildly vacillating first-round playoff series. Clippers dig deep to force deciding game with 102-96 win over Spurs 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Worse, the members’ thinking is vacillating, and they are overriding their previous statements, seemingly by whim. How The Fed Fostered The Oil Glut And Price Drop - Wall Street Losing Patience 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z On Ukraine, Mr Orban is vacillating between a desire for closer ties with Russia and his obligations as a member of the EU and NATO. The Viktor and Vladimir show 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z As a tactical matter, tarring his opponents as warmongers once again may still succeed in persuading vacillating Democratic lawmakers to double down on the president’s approach and uphold his threatened veto of new sanctions legislation. Obama Presents False Choice on Iran Nuclear Deal 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead of vacillating from one hero to another, the left must create a formidable power base from which to both defeat Republicans and shift Democrats to the left. Three secrets to revitalizing liberal America 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z In 1862 the Chicago Times deemed President Abraham Lincoln an “irresolute, vacillating imbecile.” Fred Hiatt: Lessons of Lincoln’s press war 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Given a choice between a Republican Party vacillating between bad and worse and a Democratic Party vacillating between bad and better, I’ll choose the Democrats. The GOP’s erratic driving The race was generally considered a “toss up,” with polling advantages vacillating ahead of the election. New Hampshire Voters Tell Scott Brown to Turn His Truck Around 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z “Hosting big award shows and making big movies. It’s like vacillating between a huge anxiety attack, hosting those shows, to the grinding tedium of being hunched in trailers and doing makeup tests.” Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’ 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama, in Mr. Panetta’s telling, is a brilliant but vacillating figure with “the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader.” Recent White House Memoirs Target Lame Duck Over a Potential Successor 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In “To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party,” Richardson outlines the GOP’s vacillating history, detailing periods of great success and terrible failure. 'To Make Men Free' Looks at the GOP's Past, Present and Future 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The sheer variety of approaches made the task of judging less like choosing between apples and oranges than vacillating between repurposed road signs, newspaper dispensers, milk cartons, wooden crates, bicycle parts and umbrellas. Little Free Libraries show some novel charm 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Among Owen's challenges was keeping track of his character's vacillating physical and mental state from scene to scene. Soderbergh, Owen team for a 1900-era medical drama 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Cameron also took European leaders to task for vacillating on Ukraine. Cameron demands Russia cease support for rebels 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z A Democratic Advisory Council committee headed by Acheson called Eisenhower’s foreign policy “weak, vacillating, and tardy.” Obama’s discipline After vacillating from red to green, back to red and then back to green in early Thursday trading, shares of Best Buy are currently up 0.6%. Best Buy Beats On Bottom Line But Dismal Sales Outlook Sends Shares On A Bumpy Ride 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I can’t remember any other President drawing so wildly vacillating labels. Obama Is Like LBJ. No wait, FDR, Reagan, JFK, Clinton… 2014-04-10T11:41:50Z After several days of Marshall mood checks and non-stop debate around Chicago about the mercurial receiver's true intentions and vacillating feelings, Thursday became a showcase of Marshall's elite skills. Marshall the catalyst for Bears' 27-21 victory 2013-10-11T03:49:00Z He went on to accuse him of vacillating on energy policy and asked him to say whether a price freeze would be "a good idea or a communist plot". VIDEO: House of Commons 2013-10-09T12:31:20Z Earlier this year the French marveled when Mr. Hollande, inexperienced in foreign policy, weighed down by economic woes and often seen as vacillating, executed a swift and successful military strike in Mali. After Bold Step on Syria, French Leader Finds Himself Dismissed as Lackey 2013-09-09T02:01:23Z Howard, whose vacillating over whether he would leave Orlando earned him widespread scorn, is now uncertain whether he wants to return to the Lakers. It’s No Secret Lakers Want Howard Back 2013-06-29T16:03:33Z Were this a vacillating political party with changing leadership and changing demographics, this transformation would be easier to track: organizations must stay relevant, popular, approved at some level, to survive. Anonymous’ Next Move 2013-04-17T08:45:00Z Instead of vacillating between mania and depression, they were irritable most of the time and often erupted in fits of rage and physical violence incommensurate to whatever supposed offense set them off. The Newest Edition of Psychiatry s Bible, the DSM-5, Is Complete 2013-01-28T12:15:00.200Z As a consumer, I’m tickled that Microsoft is doing this; if I headed a PC company, I’d be vacillating between depression and anger. My First 23 Questions About Microsoft's 'Surface' Windows 8 Tablet 2012-06-19T12:36:07Z Maybe the investors are dragging out due diligence, or being slow to respond during negotiations, or vacillating on the terms of the deal. The 4 Traits of a Perfect Investor 2012-06-18T11:43:15Z The cause of virtue was strongly organised; it drew to itself the best men, determined the course of vacillating but amiable natures, and placed some restraint upon the vicious. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z People at the circumference of the circle seemed to be surely drawn, by a straight or vacillating radius, to its centre. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Yet, nearly all the faltering, vacillating men now drifting about the country might have been saved through careful training in the performance of work. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z The Latin poets offer the equivalent of the vacillating formulæ of Vedism. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Some ten years later the vacillating policy of Alexander IV. indicates an earnest effort on the part of the inquisitors to obtain independence. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Later, when he had to struggle against plots and counter-plots, a vacillating King, false friends, and open enemies, he failed. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Popularity is the most fleeting, the most vacillating--if you will, the most contemptible--of all those means and opportunities which Heaven gives us to be made use of for great ends. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z All that gamesters feel of hope and fear, all the intense excitement they derive from the vacillating fortunes of play, Barrington enjoyed in a lawsuit. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Indignation and rage at this vacillating, pusillanimous conduct seized the entire army, and curses and loud denunciations were heard on every side. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z But Holyoake, a man of pure character and gentle manners, is devoid of anything like commanding ability, has no gleam of oratorical power, and is intellectually unreliable and vacillating. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This pope and his predecessors have been often reproached, since the death of Julius II. with a vacillating policy, and an extreme fickleness in their enmities and alliances. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z The clerk had a particularly nasty face, just the face to take advantage of a vacillating Kipps. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z As for the American standard, it does not exist, save as a vacillating pennon. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z This news, and these narratives, however, still vary considerably, and leave one in a very vacillating state of mind as to what may happen next. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Of course, the woman was a greedy adventuress in search of flesh-pots, and had gauged aright the feeble and vacillating character of the young Marquis de Gange. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It is especially to be noticed, that in this instance we have to reckon with a material difference of custom, and not merely with a vacillating terminology or a general and indefinite improvement in position. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z My Lord Clare laughed in his disagreeable manner as he recounted how he had succeeded in terrifying poor vacillating Arthur Wolfe about her. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Like the rest of us, Mr. Harding perhaps has none of these pictures so firmly in his head as before the war; but the damage to the pictures only makes him more vacillating. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Returning to the Tribune in 1849, he became its managing-editor, and in this capacity actively promoted the anti-slavery cause, seeming to shape the paper’s policy at a time when Greeley was undecided and vacillating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Well-meaning, vacillating women are like satin-skinned horses in the arena--all the better for a touch of the lash. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Like all men, you are strong in protestations, and feeble, timid, and vacillating in action. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The opinions of the rest were as vacillating as their courage, many of them lacking confidence in the governor. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z His foreign policy, moreover, was very vacillating, and he changed his “system” more frequently perhaps than any contemporary diplomatist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The bronze had faded from his cheeks, and his glance was vacillating. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z In the suspicious temper of the times this vacillating policy was doubly fatal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z In his policy he was vacillating and eventually he retired to France, being absent during the three momentous years prior to the deposition of Mary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z But he himself was aware that in the endeavour to do so he was not always successful, and that his delineations of Christian dogma often betrayed a vacillating and uncertain hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z This leads to a kind of vacillating policy, and an ambiguous course of argument, accompanied with reiterated complaints, that the opposers of the system misunderstand and misrepresent it. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z The Martyr Against His Will.—In a certain movement there was a man who was too cowardly and vacillating ever to contradict his comrades. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z “I’ve been vacillating between these highs of total exhilaration at the opportunity and abject terror and despair,” she said. South Street Seaport Museum?s S.O.S. Call Is Answered 2011-11-26T05:23:41Z This weak and vacillating attitude may possibly only be a momentary consequence of the sudden commencement of a discussion which seemed distant and for which they were unprepared. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z The nation is not hesitating or vacillating before the realization of its manifest destiny. The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic 2011-11-24T03:00:43.903Z Of all policies this would have been the most evasive, most vacillating and least dignified. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z He was a man of that tone and quality of mind, which soft and vacillating natures, or other minds not well grounded in high principles of conduct, might term austere. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z The latter appears to have been a man of vacillating, inert temperament, gifted with a good voice and artistic sensibility, but not capable of any sustained effort. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z Spinoza's "Ethics" leaves the reader in great discomfort, the result of vacillating and contradictory explanations. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He resembled his passionate, unrestrained, and unscrupulous mother rather than his vacillating, pusillanimous father. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z His naturally vacillating, ingenious and subtle mind turned gradually towards it; and he sometimes ended by adopting it, not only with conviction but with transport. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Beside La Rochefoucauld all other writers are diffuse, vacillating, unfinished, rough. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Sire," he said, "your majesty beholds the result of the uncertain and vacillating policy I have so long implored you to abandon. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z Something of the kind would be necessary to bring life and shape into these dull cheeks and weak chin, that vacillating mouth with the cracked lips. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z In 1788 Charles IV. came to the throne, one of the weakest, most vacillating and most ignoble of princes, who was content to let his kingdom be governed for him by his wife's notorious lover. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Such vacillating conduct, however, we are sorry to record, was not confined to the two gentlemen just mentioned. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Then Fate interposed: exactly ten minutes too late, and when the Cardinal had already saddled himself with an over-scrupulous, vacillating, ultra-honest ally. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The Reformed Church meanwhile flourished, though vacillating between methodistic narrowness and rationalistic shallowness, growing both inwardly and outwardly, and also the Lutheran communities, which outside of Alsace were only thinly scattered, enjoyed great prosperity. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The Anna Hazare movement exposed the Congress as rudderless and vacillating in her absence. India Blog: Welcome, Madamji 2011-09-09T07:11:23Z Meanwhile, the government was handling the matter of slave insurrections in a vacillating manner. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The Dutch displayed the greatest indifference in the matter, and the English, for want of any commanding influence or unquestioned authority, were irresolute and vacillating. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z Instead of turning her victorious energy upon the vacillating troop outside, she allowed herself to be hypnotised by the already thoroughly conquered. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Boabdil, though he could show true Moorish courage in the battle-field, was a weak and vacillating man, and was perpetually oppressed by the conviction that destiny was against him. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z The houses are tumbling to decay, the fencing in some instances disappearing beneath the drifting sand dunes—fitting monument to the cowardly, vacillating policy of an obsolete Bureau. The Discards 2011-08-27T02:00:23.603Z He could not, however, classify his emotions, 271 and so he stood there on the porch, undecided, vacillating, in the grip of a vague disquiet. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z But, while thus vacillating betwixt conflicting interests, and changing its purpose every hour, the nation imagines itself advancing to some imaginary goal of perfection. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Howard knew that Cobham was weak and vacillating, he knew that many of Cobham's family were disposed to favour the Catholic cause. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z During his political career, many instances occur, which seem to imply a vacillating and unsteady temperament, a fault which can hardly be forgiven in a statesman. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The Oneidas, as is well known, were divided and vacillating in their allegiance. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z He was vacillating in his faith, but was by no means persuaded of the truth of Universalism. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z This arose from a prejudice, that, with many others, rendered this weak and vacillating monarch remarkable. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z When you're highlighting the value of a product over cheaper competitors, you shouldn't be vacillating on price or negotiating. Sell on Value, Not on Price 2011-07-20T15:00:00Z Undoubtedly much can be done to save this interest from disturbance and to hold vacillating attention fixed upon it; but it, and it alone, is to be the driving force. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It was written by an Englishman who for several years has been vacillating between the ministry and secular journalism, but is now the pastor of a small church in northern New York. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z He was ill-favoured in appearance, and weak and vacillating in his conduct. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z A policy of expansion adopted.—The policy of the ministry regarding the West was vacillating, and more so, no doubt, because of the pressure of conflicting interests. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Of small stature, effeminate countenance, restless, shifting eyes, and a vacillating expression of mouth, he did not look like the son of the hard, rugged man who stood beside him. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Large tracts of life lie altogether beyond its control, and the conduct which can be affected by it is apt—especially in the initial stages—to be rendered vague, slow, vacillating, and distorted. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z From any other living soul guilty of such vacillating treachery, he would have turned away in scarcely surprised scorn. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z He was a treacherous, vacillating character, and ruled by his mother, Catharine de Medicis, who was far more wicked than himself. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z No better intentioned ruler ever mounted a throne but his weak will and vacillating course led to his undoing. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z His nature was weak and vacillating, capable of only a limited amount of endurance. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z The wildly vacillating weather in New York on Friday — periods of warm sun and clear skies interspersed with thunderous, gloomy downpours — could serve as a metaphor for the ’ fortunes this season. Angels 4, Mets 3: Up-and-Down Mets Take a Dip Against the Angels 2011-06-18T03:04:07Z The prediction mentioned, indeed, a picture-gallery, but a mirror-room is itself one, only more vacillating, and deeper in behind the wall. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z They had so opposed and tantalized each other all evening that all their nerves were on edge, vacillating toward a sudden obliterating reaction. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z A vacillating and impetuous monarch could not dare it; it was the work of a thoughtful sovereign, whose sex inspired a reign of love. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In reality, the policy of Francis, save for some flashes of sagacity, was irresolute and vacillating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." 2011-05-27T02:00:16.463Z The 'Cornwallis Correspondence' gives a vivid picture of the vacillating nobleman, whose feeble attempts to stem the vigorous and unscrupulous polity of Lord Castlereagh might be humorous if they had not done so much harm. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z On this fresh agitation, the coming in at half-past ten, she could only judge as a vacillating woman. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Thus, here as elsewhere, we see a vacillating hand-to-mouth policy, at the mercy of a passion for power or for sensual gratification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z We are interested to detect the vacillating conduct of the poet to the implacable statesman. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Francis II. was weak-minded, stupid and vacillating, but, although his short reign was stained with some cruel massacres and persecutions, he was less of a tyrant than his father. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." 2011-05-27T02:00:16.463Z But the Atheling, like all weak and vacillating natures, could be false or fickle to his master William at very short notice. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Fanciful, dreamy, vacillating, weak, the one; the other strong, practical, matter-of-fact. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z "Just as you will, Belle-Ann," he agreed, and the two mingled their mutual, uncontrollable outbursts of ecstasy as they joined the figure lingering amid the mystic vacillating shadows of the rose-tree. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z This vacillating conduct of “the moral Gower,” however, need not leave any stain on his memory. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Nay, nay," replied the king, looking at the duchess reproachfully, "I am not so vacillating in my purposes. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z This vacillating mood of yours makes me ashamed.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z "At the same time, investors are faced with navigating ongoing challenges - including geopolitical turmoil, vacillating energy prices and the aftermath of major natural disasters," he added. Schwab's profit up on higher fees 2011-04-15T16:50:04Z I cannot yet give him the text, because I am vacillating between two themes,—and to predict a plan is with me to make the whole effort pall and disgust me. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z A few of the timid and vacillating refused to do so. The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada 2011-04-14T02:00:54.620Z The notion of President Edwards, on this subject, appears to be equally unsteady and vacillating. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z You have no idea how weak and vacillating Rex is when it comes to disappointing people, Aunt Milly.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z As she looked at the two men her determination, which had been held so firmly all day, grew weak and vacillating. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z His mouth, however, though full and beautifully shaped, betrayed a vacillating and unstable disposition. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z "Didn't you ring, sir?" said he, with a bow to Nickie, who now seemed vacillating, and uncertain how to proceed. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z In the definition of President Edwards, there is an inherent and radical defect, which I have not as yet noticed; and which is, indeed, the source of all his vacillating on this subject. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z A common game, children vacillating on either end of a plank supported on its centre. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z She watched the conflict, and saw every struggle that shook him; she could even mark the vacillating fortunes of the fight—when he conquered, and when he fell back, discomfited and beaten. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z He was but vacillating and frightened, Langrish playing the traitor, as the events proved, ending in capitulation. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z He was a good fellow, but somewhat vacillating! 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z O that she had your taste to guide her, and to decide my too vacillating judgment: we should then have no occasion to dread even the elegant simplicity of Mad. Leonora 2011-03-22T02:00:21.627Z He is still the same man as we knew him forty years ago," her husband replied; "undecided, vacillating, incapable of taking a stand. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Long vacillating and irresolute, long doubtful of himself and all the world, he was resolved at last, and obstinately bent upon carrying out his resolution. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Eugenius was dignified in demeanour, but inexperienced and vacillating in action and excitable in temper. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z He passed his youth at Oxford, vacillating between the wildest dissipations and the most brilliant triumphs. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Lord Seely laboured under the disadvantage, in this crisis, of feeling for other persons with some keenness; a circumstance which frittered away his power considerably, and made him vacillating. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z He was not formed to captivate: his person was clumsy, his manners disagreeable, and his temper feeble and vacillating. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Thus also the largeness of the pelvis, and the approximation of the knees, influence the gait of woman, and render it vacillating and unsteady. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z His course continues to be a very vacillating one—now seeming to approach to God, and anon driven farther from him, till he obtains from books, or from lectures, a smattering of half-understood science. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z “You were always a helpless, vacillating fool, and you have nothing but the few hundreds from your mother.” Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Now this outburst completely routed his judgment, and left him uncertain and vacillating. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z Then came the passionate longing for change, that indefinite and empty resource of the vacillating mind. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z It was a moment of terrible suspense, but our adventurers saw the savages suddenly drop their bows, some after sending a careless shot, with a vacillating, pusillanimous aim, and others without shooting at all. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z To go back on it, and at the eleventh hour, would proclaim him weak and vacillating, and the effect might be as Strachan said. The Courier of the Ozarks 2011-02-09T03:00:43.267Z And my Frida does not belong to the weak and vacillating, she has something of the energy, and, alas, something of the hardness of a certain other nature. Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z Nothing is more vacillating, more unstable of purpose, than an excited crowd, accustomed to bow to the will of one resolute man. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Yet his eye was bright and his heart fearless still, though his judgment was often weak and vacillating. Khaled, A Tale of Arabia 2011-01-16T03:00:23.317Z At each flight it approached closer to the serpent’s forked tongue, and then retreated, as if vacillating and irresolute. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Ever tardy and vacillating was the mind of the Spanish king. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Mordecai The wicked Haman would have slain Even the queen herself and every Jew That lives within the hundred provinces Of Xerxes' weak and vacillating rule. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z But the old Napoleon was no more; vacillating almost as if in partial catalepsy, murmuring empty phrases in quick, indistinct utterance, he refused to decide. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Ginn will now help negotiators hammer out the collective bargaining agreement; Singletary will spend the next six months vacillating between two different cable television providers. The Fifth Down: Week 17 N.F.L. Matchups 2010-12-31T14:00:59Z Soon, any minor discrepancies in prime ministerial remarks were slammed as "backtracking" and "vacillating" on policy, and any slip of the tongue instantly became a gaffe. Hatoyama Was Doomed by Tokyo's Evil Press Corps 2010-06-03T00:49:00Z Roman's charm offensive Chelsea transfer targets who may have been vacillating over whether to join the recently crowned Double winners have been surprised to find Roman Abramovich joining in the charm offensive. FA's Geoff Thompson faces England 2018 dilemma at Euro 2016 vote 2010-05-27T23:09:00Z None of this public vacillating can be good news for the White House. Inside Justice Stevens's Retirement Dilemma 2010-04-08T17:39:00Z It was an exceptional moment, a vacillating, retrogressive hour in the history of Austria, of France, and of Italy. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Statements by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, her finance minister and others are incoherent and vacillating, not to mention replete with moral posturing. Germany: a euro laggard | Costas Lapavitsas 2010-03-21T23:00:00Z Some conservatives, however, sounded the alarm when they sensed him vacillating recently. Democrats yet to decide on health-care bill bear the weight of Washington 2010-03-18T04:00:00Z On the other hand, when "No" was said it meant No every time and there was never any vacillating policy. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Weak, vacillating, utterly unscrupulous though he was, Steenie Berrington had not been without a certain lovableness—a kindly, merry humour which, even if insincere and selfish, was fascinating after its kind. A Blot on the Scutcheon In 1813, while he himself was vacillating, his foes were stirring. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z If it was true that their common guilt had really given him a power over her weak and vacillating nature, he must use that power for Ulrich's welfare. The Undying Past Richard Glaire looked at the sturdy fellow uneasily, and directed a second glance at Daisy, his vacillating eyes resting for a moment on the pocketed double fists before repeating his words shortly— “Come along, Evey.” The Parson O' Dumford While in health, she had been a woman of much decision of character; but, in her present condition, she was weak and vacillating. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician She would defend Rachel, till her weak defence would be knocked to shivers, and her poor vacillating words taken from out of her mouth. Rachel Ray He was a man of vacillating character, and did not hesitate to lend his support to the Romanists whenever it served his personal interests. The Story of Our Hymns If you cannot rely upon yourself, upon your power to judge and to act, you must rely upon some other person, possibly upon many people, and you become, perforce, vacillating and unstable. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories "Philip, forgive me—I have wronged you," said the vacillating Duke, as he turned over these documents from members of the conspiracy that had been formed in his own favour. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 That might possibly have been a mere figure of flattering speech, designed to win over the vacillating nobleman, but to make it public would be once more putting the deceased's reputation in the pillory. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers A man of unsettled purpose, you perceive, who had mapped his course of pleasure and then forsaken it, vacillating, lukewarm, halting between two opinions. The Gay Adventure A Romance Others will call to mind his vacillating conduct in 1875, and deny that he possessed that decision of character which is the salient feature in all truly great men. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar And the vacillating or utterly frivolous cannot be of so much importance to you as peace and tolerance. The Children of the World Wenceslas maintained the vacillating attitude that was characteristic of his whole reign, though Queen Sophia still extended her protection to the reformers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" As he uttered these words, with a gesture of mistrust, De Mouy fixed his piercing glance on the false vacillating eyes of the young man. Marguerite de Valois Yet she felt that her nature could not be so vacillating. With Edge Tools The Chinese authorities very naturally took umbrage at this tacit support of a rebellious vassal, and all our subsequent efforts have been unable to remove the suspicions produced by our vacillating attitude on that occasion. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Then her uncle pronounced his judgment in a vacillating voice,—with a vacillation which was ineffectual of any good to Ayala. Ayala's Angel The king maintained a vacillating attitude, influenced now by the threats of the Bohemians, now by the advice of the papal nuncio, who had followed him to Prague. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" His frivolous and vacillating character made him the tool of parties who profited by their influence, to allure him to the commission of bad actions. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. It is no part of our object to follow the changing fortunes of that long contest, nor watch the vacillating chances which alternately elevated to hope and lowered to very desperation. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Some complained, though not loudly, of the weak and vacillating policy of the king. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Charles Albert was not a man of first-rate ability; he was of a hopelessly vacillating character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" They were therefore not intimidated when Rudolph, vacillating as ever, suddenly assumed a most truculent attitude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" With regard to the Government monopoly of Bengal opium, our policy has been very vacillating in past time; and mainly to this cause may be ascribed the fluctuations in the revenue derived from this source. A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade He was an impulsive youth, restless and vacillating, and was left wholly to the evil influences of his mother. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands This position of affairs suited the timid and vacillating policy of Montezuma. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 It was this that made the king look upon me as weak and vacillating, and impelled him to leave me. On the Heights A Novel And yet, so hopelessly vacillating is my nature that I had read but half a chapter before I was figuratively patting myself on the back, in egotistic approval of my own work. A Top-Floor Idyl The governor shrank from the hazard of extremes, was vacillating, undecided, and unequal to the emergency. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. His vacillating ideas as to a mode of life were determined in a definite direction by the reading of Gil Blas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The demons of doubt and fear returned to perplex and harass his soul, and to incline him again to that vacillating policy, those half way measures, by which his doom was to be sealed. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Friendship suffers from mere suspicion, and the queen well knew that she was looked upon as weak-minded and vacillating. On the Heights A Novel The duke, a sickly and vacillating man, said nothing to Castlereagh, and took no steps, and Canning did not enlighten his colleague. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" I am weak and cowardly, and you are not strong enough to dominate my weakness and control my vacillating character. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The flickering, vacillating flame in the expiring brasier seemed to cry for fresh fuel. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century And many of the vacillating members also saw clearly that they had been egregiously duped by the Governments. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 She suggests a 'Jean Paul' born after his time, and is of a tender, clinging disposition, constantly vacillating between the dawn and twilight of emotion, and always avoiding the white light of day. On the Heights A Novel They were commonplace creatures—weak, vacillating creatures, swayed to and fro by the emotions of the hour. What a Man Wills All the rest has fallen to him because he is so stubborn, so unyielding, and others so vacillating and so pitifully weak. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Two things there are which stand firm, while the heart of man is kept vacillating between defiance and despondency, haughtiness and faint-heartedness; they are nature and the ideal within us. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The western half of Germany had taken up arms in its behalf; the military everywhere were vacillating; in the lesser States they were undoubtedly favorable to the movement. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 They had none of them been as weak and vacillating as she. On the Heights A Novel What a vacillating moral coward I have grown,” he said to himself. Blind Policy He is, however, of rather a vacillating, timorous disposition, and is therefore a pliable instrument in the Khalifa's hands; consequently there is often a miscarriage of justice. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 There is much discontent in the army; men are blaming Lincoln for maintaining a vacillating, uncertain policy, or, to say the least, for his extreme slowness. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine But at last things began to look threatening for this weak, vacillating, insipid legislative body. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 She feared lest she might appear weak and vacillating in Irma's eyes. On the Heights A Novel Yes, my dear sir, indeed; but you see, I am a very old man now, and I fear that I have grown weak and vacillating; I may add cowardly too. Blind Policy His vacillating, uncertain genius, wherein discouragement succeeded to enthusiasm, drove him into planning works with fierce energy and then almost immediately so diverted his attention that he could not force himself to finish them. Michelangelo He was a thoroughly depraved character; weak, vacillating, yet obstinate and perverse. The Bible Story The dauphin may have been momentarily converted to faith in Jeanne la Pucelle; but he was vacillating, and some of his wisest councillors, including the chancellor, would not believe in her. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Within the influence of such a mind, Buckingham, weak, vacillating, ambitious, and unscrupulous, would literally be nowhere, and so it turned out. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West In public life he showed himself a laborious and careful administrator, of an extremely autocratic, and yet at the same time somewhat vacillating, character. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Instead of moving on a decided one of conduct, like his friend, William of Orange, he appeared weak and vacillating. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The majority of the other colonies had entitled themselves to some hopes of pardon from the tyrant by vacillating conduct. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia There are men who can accept defeat itself better than meet the vacillating events of a changeful destiny; who have no persistence in their courage, nor any resources to meet the coming incidents of life. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly This decrepit septuagenarian could accomplish nothing, and after a vacillating and utterly powerless administration of eight months, during which time the influence of Cortez was continually increasing, he died. Hernando Cortez Makers of History Great changes have taken place there, which perhaps may force the vacillating Emperor to go to war. The Scarlet Banner He knew the vacillating temper of the monarch he had to deal with. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 She saw that her only hope was in the easy, vacillating disposition of Claudius; she had never yet failed to manage him, and her assurance was great. Roman Women When she was regarded by everyone else as without a moral equivalent for her artistic temperament, Garrick steadfastly refused to regard her simply as a vain, flighty, and vacillating person. Women of England Montezuma was continually vacillating as to the course to be pursued. Hernando Cortez Makers of History Like all timid and vacillating tempers, he sought refuge in procrastination. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Cardona, who seems to have had a good share of the timid, vacillating policy of his superior, fearful of the Ottoman fleet, stood off and on for some days, without approaching the island. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 They would set him down as weak and vacillating, and pay less attention than ever to his efforts to make them get together and play the game right. Under Boy Scout Colors It had been a vacillating expediency, an attempt to hide the facts and avoid the necessity of facing the challenge squarely. Turning Point He was weak, vacillating and ineffective as a politician, lacking in judgment and decision, and without any great parliamentary talent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" In this vacillating state of suspense—one day all hope and confidence, the next, terror and dread—she lived on, till the period drew nigh for their departure from Vienna. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I refer simply to the “utmost conceivable expanse” of space—a shadowy and fluctuating domain, now shrinking, now swelling, in accordance with the vacillating energies of the imagination. Eureka: A Prose Poem The latter petition, signed almost universally by the bar, characterizes Judge Noyes as "weak," "vacillating," "dilatory," "careless," "negligent," "partial," and "absolutely incompetent." The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) If suspicion and distrust have crept or stolen into my heart, it is from, watching the conduct of those I deemed high-spirited and honorable, and seeing them weak and, vacillating and faithless. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I On the 21st of April, having now received a full account of the battle at Copenhagen, it recalled Sir Hyde Parker, whose vacillating conduct and want of enterprise had become manifest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Look at England herself, vacillating between the game of conciliation and the perils of her unlimited bigotry. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life But the misfortune is, that the dread of this attack keeps back well disposed but vacillating characters. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Although he had, in the first impulse of triumph after receiving his commission, confided fully in the promises of the vacillating Berkeley, yet, on reflection, Bacon did not rely very implicitly upon them. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion The Dukes of Burgundy and of Brittany were alike vacillating in their policy, being at one time attached to the king’s party, and at another allied to the English. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Here Miss P. Hen drew a long breath, and says she, "Let's have no vacillating." The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 This outlook is still vague and vacillating, and it may perhaps compel epistemology to return on its old path from the sophists to Plato, from Hume to Kant. Naturalism And Religion If strength and independence of character do not come in these years of adjustment, the probabilities are that life will always be weak and vacillating. Training the Teacher His handling of the Mexican situation, although denounced as weak and vacillating, has been in full accord with his new Latin-American policy. The United States and Latin America In a few days she had grown indolent and vacillating, and was willing to let every question decide itself rather than to force her decision upon circumstances. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome Then, seeing at once my vacillating manner, he, too, took me in hand, only in a terribly earnest, ponderous way from which there was no escape. The Hills and the Vale The chief characteristic of Sterling in life and thought appears to have been a vacillating impulsiveness, while in letters his production, small in bulk, is anything but strong in substance or form. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) This is the explanation of the vacillating conduct almost universal during the early part of this period. Training the Teacher During the changes of ministry that followed the death of Pitt, the policy of England in regard to South America was weak and vacillating. The United States and Latin America But Mr. Orcutt, vacillating between his powerful concern for Imogene, and his duty to his client, would not allow the other to proceed. Hand and Ring Unsteady or inconstant in purpose, he was at one moment headstrong, at another timid or vacillating. Studies in Contemporary Biography Therefore it is a very poor procedure to measure the things which are of God's appointing by such vacillating analogies of worldly things, when they do not hold even in the appointments of men. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) How would you explain vacillating conduct during the early part of this period? Training the Teacher In courtship the Colonel had shown himself vacillating, to say the least of it. The Return of the Prodigal No honest friend to Samoa can pretend anything but relief that the three Powers should at last break their vacillating silence. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Remember that hu- man pride forfeits spiritual power, and either vacillating good or self-assertive error dies of its own elements. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 They mounted rapidly over the rise, and became, as the pursued, vacillating specks, and then disappeared in the hollow beyond. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Thus it appears that the vacillating papacy was not yet strong enough to exalt itself above its equals, and the orthodoxy of Europe was for ever determined by an obscure court intrigue. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition His host's eye followed him; it marked him down as the fourth; it hovered round him, dubious, vacillating, troubled. The Return of the Prodigal The consequences of this vacillating course are apparent, from the beginning of the year 1528 onward, in the striking change manifest in his mode of dealing with the affairs of his own canton. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli But because consternation springs from a double fear, it may be more aptly defined as that dread which holds a man stupefied or vacillating, so that he cannot remove an evil. The Philosophy of Spinoza He watched them, dazed, saw them ascend a rise, become a vacillating speck in the moonlight, and drop from view in a hollow beyond the rise. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Will such vacillating policy conciliate the troops, and incite them to heroic deeds? A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Hence the crudity and incongruity of his text, his vacillating opinions, and the weakness and poverty of his annotation. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 This confusion of religions, if, indeed, these pretended modes of faith could be classed among religions, disturbed the consciences of good men, who read themselves in and out of their vacillating creed. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "Do you think that can be done?" said Moro, vacillating. The Grandee He peered into the vacillating shadows, but saw nothing but the darker shadows of one of the innumerable man-made caves. A Knyght Ther Was In this crisis Constantine’s attitude had been very correct, far more so than that of his brother, which was vacillating and uncertain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" You must have Authority, and a vacillating disposition did not contribute to its exercise. When Ghost Meets Ghost A gigantic moon rose, meanwhile, over the trees and the kirk on the promontory among perturbed and vacillating clouds. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) After vacillating another day, he staked one of the notes, at a discount, of course. Gold Many novelists mar the effect of their work—and among these Thackeray is notable—by adopting an attitude which in this respect is constantly vacillating. Memoirs of Life and Literature But change of place brought the vacillating queen mother no nearer to a decision. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 Or did not the idea of a dualism become confused into a vacillating, contradictory notion of a Power at once good and evil, something inscrutable, unthinkable, but inspiring less confidence than terror? Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Henry Fenn, weak, vacillating, chivalrous, adoring Henry Fenn, had not conquered her; and the fire in her blood, and the ambition in her brain, came over her as a spell. In the Heart of a Fool Until you do, you will always be uncertain, vacillating, superficial in heart, not rooted and grounded. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent In turning around and righting his mistakes he often hears himself called "changeable" and "vacillating." How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types But the vacillating queen could not be induced as yet to take the same view, and needed the offer of some tangible advantages to move her. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 Mrs. Newbolt blessed him in her heart, and the irresponsible and vacillating public wiped its cheeks clean of its tears and settled down to have its emotions warped the other way. The Bondboy The vacillating woman has no right to let a man propose to her and then accept him just because she cannot make up her mind to tell him the truth. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements When I arrived at an age when my character should have been in some measure “moulded,” I was, like most persons of a peculiar nervous temperament, very vacillating and changeful. Confessions of a Neurasthenic Frances remained silent, her vindictiveness, her 275 hardness of heart, against this vacillating girl dying away as the flame had died. The Rustler of Wind River The brilliant personality of Wilhelm II had magnetized the vacillating, timorous Nicholas. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War The Apostle prays that they may be steadfast, not weak and vacillating. The Prayers of St. Paul Bigot recommended the same course; but all the other officers were against it, and the brave but vacillating Vaudreuil was overborne by their counsel. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France My character was as vacillating and unsettled as ever. Confessions of a Neurasthenic He was more than ever vacillating, hesitant, and infirm of purpose. Carmen Ariza The mouth was sunken as the mouths of old men become from the loss of teeth, and the thin lips which used to be kindly and vacillating were drawn with a hard, unflinching tightness. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Father Salví, pale and with a wild look, rose to his feet laboriously, made a sign with his hand and left the sala with vacillating steps. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' But in spite of the strength of this array, it was not expected by those who knew the vacillating Governor that he would be successful. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The Miami chiefs arrived for an apparently friendly council, but the Stone Eater was vacillating, and already under the influence of the Prophet. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Whereas, in early manhood he had been fiery and impulsive, quick of decision and immovable of opinion, his progeny were increasingly inclined to be deliberate in judgment and vacillating of purpose. Carmen Ariza Thinking of all this he stood distracted and vacillating before his patron. Marion Fay And the republic,—poor, weak, headless combination of inconsistencies,—through a tricky and vacillating Ministry and a bitter, factional Parliament, greatly encouraged the idea of any sort of a change. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life But the design of penetrating direct into France seemed too bold even to Eugene, and, of course, encouraged strong opposition from a government so timid and vacillating as that of Holland.—Coxe, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 Rushing wildly to a corner cupboard, he produced from it a plate of cold crisp fried fish, which he placed with all imaginable speed exactly under the nose of the still vacillating Aby. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 This he did in momentary vacillating mercy,—not because of the charm of the thing to himself, but through his own inability not to give her some token of affection. Is He Popenjoy? Lack of a noble purpose, in nations as well as individuals, begets a vacillating policy, which is inevitably followed by degeneration and corruption. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy So he stood, unstable, vacillating and a treacherous groper amidst cruel shards of an ineluctable memory, powerless to stay the fair phantom and fearful of looking night squarely in the front. Melomaniacs Her personal popularity and influence was fully equal to that of her husband, while her tenacity of purpose and strength of will far excelled that of the vacillating and conceited emperor. Aztec Land The better class of vacillating Nationalists are ready to give a plausible reason for the faith that is in them. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule What with the secession of the Southern States, the resignation of Senators and Members of Congress, and the vacillating course of the Buchanan administration, the outlook was gloomy in the extreme. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War The weak and irresolute king was ever vacillating between the two parties. Henry IV, Makers of History It is very evident that they look upon me as a silly, vacillating girl, who can be easily managed and won over by pretty clothes and glittering baubles. The Masked Bridal There are all sorts of atheists—some real, others pretended; some determined, others vacillating, and others tempted to be so. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. No man will have more to answer for than the conductor of a corrupt and vacillating press. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements The vacillating Charles, in an instant, is ready to repudiate his interview with Wentworth, and act only to please the Queen. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning These embarrassments to a vacillating mind were terrible. Henry IV, Makers of History He knows the tragic failure of other movements with vacillating policies. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Well, I'm in charge of a strip of frontier territory, but so far I've had the veto of a cautious and vacillating superior to contend with. Blake's Burden While he stood vacillating, his hand went to his hip pocket and drew out the silver-cased brandy flask. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Does he see the bloody handwriting on the wall, condemning his unnatural, vacillating, dodging policy? Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Wherever he entered a city, the ever vacillating multitude welcomed him with acclamations. Henry IV, Makers of History We behold him in his strength and in his weakness—the bold advocate, and yet timid and vacillating statesman, the fond husband, the affectionate father, the kind master, the warm-hearted friend.’—Tyrrell. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Tantalized by an occasional feeble and vacillating current of warm air from the register, I was forced at times to wear my overcoat as I read, and at night I spread it over my cot. A Son of the Middle Border He might be weak and vacillating, but he was a gentleman, and a lie was abhorrent to him. Wee Wifie Such a stigma is inflicted upon the brave and heroic North by the strategy, and by the vacillating, slave-saving policy of the administration. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Clement the Sixth, a Frenchman, was elected Pope at Avignon, a man who, according to the chronicler, contrasted favourably by his wisdom, breadth of view, and liberality, with a weak and vacillating predecessor. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome But Clarence had been so wavering and vacillating, having changed sides so often in the great quarrels, that no confidence was placed in him now on either side. Richard III Makers of History Such vacillating interpretations of constitutional law unsettle our faith in judicial authority, and undermine the liberties of the whole people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Look not back on your dark, stumbling paths, nor within on your fitful and vacillating heart; but forwards to the land that is far off. The Words of Jesus The press, the thus called good one, is vacillating. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 From this day forward there shall be no vacillating. The Prairie Child Kuprili was a military dictator, with nothing of Charles's vacillating nature; and although, like Charles, he later rescinded his edict, he enforced it, while it was effective, in no uncertain fashion. All About Coffee Such vacillating interpretations of constitutional law must unsettle our faith in judicial authority, and undermine the liberties of the whole people. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III But we moved slowly and with vacillating steps. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Best of all, and almost not vacillating, is the New York Evening Post. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The nobility warlike, the burgesses increasing in importance, and the laboring population vacillating between these two classes, who alternately oppressed and courted it, from time to time, here as everywhere, fought for supremacy. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Louis, adopting a vacillating policy, in his endeavors to conciliate each party was losing the confidence and the support of all. Madame Roland, Makers of History Mr. Gouverneur was much annoyed by such vacillating conduct and immediately notified the British Consul in emphatic language that if he refused to accept the piratical gifts he would regard it as a personal matter. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century None the less, the temptation found him vacillating and incapable even of a clear decision. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Such is not the feeling of the Northern people, and such notions must necessarily confuse and make vacillating Mr. Seward's—that is, Mr. Lincoln's—policy. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 On this supposition, vacillating syntax, and improbable incident had a certain pathos for us, like the extremely supererogatory pincushions and ill-devised nightcaps that are offered for sale by a blind man. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The king was spiritless, undecided, and ever vacillating in his plans. Madame Roland, Makers of History Anxiously he paced the floor of his library at Neuilly, bewildered and vacillating. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series He sits at the helm of his thought world and, guiding, decides his own fate, or, through negative, vacillating, and therefore weakening thought, he drifts, and fate decides him. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit Ye lofty thinkers, of whom Aristotle said that ye wander through life vacillating and inactive so long as no great honour or glorious Cause calleth you to deeds! On the Future of our Educational Institutions But when she had only her intellect to rely upon, all was uncertain, and she became weak, vacillating, and dependent. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius It was this slow, vacillating, indecisive course of the former revolution which generated all the causes that conspired to defeat it. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France Being entirely at the mercy of such doubtful and vacillating friends, I, though perplexed, felt it best to obey. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals Would they even venture it again in a national bank, after we had shown so vacillating a policy? The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Every one shall know that I have been weak and vacillating. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange That he also sometimes lacked moral courage and was vacillating seems also true. History of Education He was weak and vacillating in his attempts at government, and foolish and dissipated in his private life. India and the Indians Yet in the hour of danger he generally proved to be our friend; such was his vacillating character. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals He had been weak and vacillating, but when the test had come he had not been false either to himself or to his friends. Paul and the Printing Press Sir Harry at this time was vacillating with more of weakness than would have been expected from a man who had generally been so firm in the affairs of his life. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite His personal timidity made him at once harsh and vacillating. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Nay, unwise and inequitable laws, to which the habits and the industrial relations of a people have adjusted themselves, are to be preferred to vacillating legislation, though in a generally right direction. A Manual of Moral Philosophy Hampton Court was also to have its part in those later chapters of the life of the vacillating king which led up to the tragic finish at Whitehall. Hampton Court The Girondins, vacillating and divided, would never have made the Republic triumph over the whole of Europe and the half of France. Lectures on the French Revolution She looked into his face imploringly, and she saw that he was vacillating. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite But his advice was neglected by the vacillating and peace-loving monarch, his proffered proclamation was put aside, and a weak, featureless production substituted in its place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" They could get no satisfactory answer from Aranjuez, where the vacillating, terrified, and disunited court now was. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) He knew that he would win Robin, he knew that he would win Mary; up to that day he had been uncertain, vacillating, miserable—but now he had no longer any hesitation. The Wooden Horse From one of unflinching energy and firm determination, he degenerated into a desponding, weak, and vacillating imbecile; and lingered on in a mental aberration for some two years, when he died. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter The vacillating tone,—even when the resolve to suppress vacillation has been most determined,—is perceived and understood, and at once utilized, by the least argumentative of lovers, even by lovers who are obtuse. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite |
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