vacillation

• “What we call vacillation is to have no fixed opinion, to be influenced at once by the opinions of others.”

  The Foundations of Personality

• “That's what I call vacillation, and you ought to be ashamed of it. ”

  The Simpkins Plot

• “This disposition of the mind, which arises from two contrary emotions, is called vacillation; it stands to the emotions in the same relation as doubt does to the imagination (II.xliv. note); vacillation and doubt do not differ one from the other, except as greater differs from less.”

  The Ethics

• “This kind of vacillation and avoidance only feeds those fears.”

  03/15/2007

• “The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option.”

  Let a million mythos bloom!

• “He made a charge, bending his head first towards John Eames, and then, with that weak vacillation which is as disgraceful in a bull as in a general, he changed his purpose, and turned his horns upon his other enemy.”

  The Small House at Allington

• “Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the”

  The Way We Live Now

• “Their hesitancy was due to an innate, congenital lack of determination -- that same hideous curse of vacillation which is responsible for so much misery in human life.”

  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

• “If the Governor be weak, this kind of vacillation and hesitation continues throughout his term of office.”

  Lombard Street : a description of the money market

• “Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the City had been in everybody's mouth, and Melmotte's committee-room had been almost deserted.”

  The Way We Live Now

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