Sentences with word «vacillation»

The disorganized pattern is often the product of trauma or extreme inconsistency in one's childhood and is characterized by vacillation between an avoidant and an ambivalent state.

Persistence on these time scales is found in patterns of variability that characterize meridional vacillations of the extratropical jet.

While elections introduce some potential instability when leaders and priorities change in a system, perhaps we can also mitigate the effects of political vacillations in education if we make stability an issue; school boards should empower those who work in the schools, trusting education professionals in administration and in classrooms to formulate and execute long - term plans for quality teaching and learning.

But he had no insight into what decision Mr. Biden would make, Mr. Cuomo said, recalling his own father's well - documented vacillations about whether to seek the country's highest office.

Yes, men [almost] have an equal amount of vacillation as women.

Given his past political vacillations, it's possible he might join the IDC, which flirted with supporting him in 2014 — or that he would simply sit with the Republican caucus while remaining a nominal Democrat, a la Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder.

People don't like vacillation in their chief executives,» says one well - known Democratic operative.

Who can one trust — even with vacillation?

[9] It also characterized the aesthetic vacillations of Thomas Craven, critic of the New York American, [10] as opportunistic.

The work accesses narrative potential and emotional energy in a constant vacillation between specific references (Chris Montez, an earplug, a hand) and ambiguity (ADD A MARK, an abstract blob of clay), functionality (a period acts like a period) and abstraction (a period is a circle, a dot, a shape, the sound «ooo».)

This behavior is expected if there is a baroclinic feedback that encourages the maximum baroclinic instability to be coincident with the maximum zonal wind - speed, and discourages the meridional vacillation of the eddy - driven jet stream.

In his writing — especially in the Holy Sonnets — I found a kindred spirit, a comforter who knew the same vacillation between despair and joy which I had myself found in the Christian faith.

Despite vacillation, Klaus realizes that it is nice not to have to read all those student essays and run all those workshops.

Donald Trump, while providing some of his trademark vacillation and bravado talking about drugs, has demurred from speaking much about cannabis legalisation.

However, shadow Europe minister Graham Brady said last night that the government was offering only «pathetic vacillation» on the future of Europe.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ongoing vacillation about moving from a Park Slope townhouse to the Gracie Mansion may have finally come to an end...

After 6 months of intense thinking and frequent vacillation, I was no closer to a decision than when I had started.

Negotiating the relationship between strength and flexibility will help you to balance in the pose, giving you a strong and stable foundation from which to experience ease without vacillation.

Gentle comedy, courtesy of Walters in fine lip - pursing form, underpins the anguished vacillations of the heart and stokes dramatic tension as Eilis dithers between her two paramours.

A monotonous series of vacillations ensues, with the mother - to - be and her two paramours indulging in all manner of dumbed - down screwball antics.

Ross takes an underwritten character whose actions and vacillations often veer dangerously close to the contrived and makes us believe her charms as well as her capricious whims.

Meanwhile, Jane's rapid vacillations between the two possibilities leave both men just as confused.

Still, that inconsistency is nothing in comparison to the film's huge vacillations in tone.

Indeed, former Secretary Margaret Spellings recently told Ed Week that unfavorable political conditions, combined with USED's waiver vacillations, have placed «muscular accountability at risk.»

I want a stock with low volatility because the strategy works best when there is minimal vacillation in the underlying stock.

In the 15 - year period through 5/31/2015, stocks exhibited 4 times the amount of price vacillation (a.k.a. volatility) than bonds.

The overall ambivalence fomented by this exhibition has a productive nature, creating space for viewers to stay longer with the troubling nature of the objects and experience vacillations of meaning.

The constant iteration of certain forms and imagery is a mode of abstraction that calls into question how time progresses, how history is written; yet the gendered, cultural body remains a constant, an anchor for her artistic vacillations.

Auction houses are a very useful indicator of the random vacillation of an artist's perceived worth and fleeting reputation (but not intrinsic merit).

The title of the exhibition, Vita Duplex, underscores the intrinsic duality of his work, its continuous vacillation between reason and emotion, past and present, light and darkness, order and chaos — an inspiring creative tension.

De Kooning's paintings from the 1930s and 1940s reveal many of the same stylistic vacillations that characterize his better - known productions of the period after 1950.

Yes, there's a decadal vacillation superimposed on an overall warming trend.

Indecisiveness as to the nature and meaning of mission led to continuing confusion and vacillation as to what the mission is and also as to the relationship between church and mission.

The confirmation that Ed Miliband will attend the Royal Wedding in a morning suit, such as trade union leaders used to wear to Royal Ascot in the days when they were always justly and often technically known as barons, confirms that he is True Labour rather than New Labour, as surely as David Cameron's vacillation on the subject confirmed his desire to be the Heir to Blair.

All this may sound like vacillation, but it provides an important lesson.

Never before have we been so indecisive over a vehicle's exterior and yet that is exactly the type of aesthetic vacillation the BMW elicits.

Duchâteau's dejected sci - fi probes are the detritus of uncertain fantasies, a constant vacillation between the threat of technological power, the impotence of technological failure, and the inability to distinguish them.

The annular modes are characterized by north - south vacillations in the jetstream at middle latitudes, owe their existence to internal atmospheric dynamics, and fluctuate on timescales spanning weeks to decades.

The disorganized pattern is often the product of trauma or extreme inconsistency in one's childhood and is characterized by vacillation between an avoidant and an ambivalent state.

The editorial excoriated Ottawa for what it characterized as vacillation between the U.S. and China, referring to recent comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about steel and aluminium dumping.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.