Elijah's address to the Carmel assembly begins with a question, enigmatic in the Hebrew, which I have translated, «How long will you go on vacillating between the two alternatives (that is, Yahweh and Baal)?» (religion-online.org)
This act of capturing meaning in multiple symbol systems and then vacillating from one medium to another is called transmediation. (edutopia.org)
Helms» unabashedly broad performance vacillates wildly between amusing and obnoxious, and it's worth noting, too, that many of the film's periphery players fare surprisingly poorly. (reelfilm.com)