waverings

You will make sure he keeps on track and will be keen to point out his waverings and shortcomings to the rest of us.

Jim Webb's Veep Tour Comes To Manhattan 2009

In most mothers this would have moved compassion; but Lady Ashton, compact and firm of purpose, saw these waverings of health and intellect with no greater sympathy than that with which the hostile engineer regards the towers of a beleaguered city as they reel under the discharge of his artillery; or rather, she considered these starts and inequalities of temper as symptoms of

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

There are various waverings about whether or not ghosts exist, whether Calla is going crazy or not, and then she ends up saving the day but putting herself in danger.

Beware the historic preservationists! 2007

There are various waverings about whether or not ghosts exist, whether Calla is going crazy or not, and then she ends up saving the day but putting herself in danger.

21st century spiritualism 2007

This (despite some waverings) was Russell's dominant view for the rest of his life, though it took him twenty-two years to develop a well worked-out version of the theory.

Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

The definitions of jealousy and other waverings of the mind I pass over in silence, first, because they arise from the compounding of the emotions already described; secondly, because many of them have no distinctive names, which shows that it is sufficient for practical purposes to have merely a general knowledge of them.

The Ethics 2007

It is said to be about an inarticulate farmer and his struggles with the “soil” and his sexual waverings between his inarticulate wife and an inarticulate sheep.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

It is said to be about an inarticulate farmer and his struggles with the “soil” and his sexual waverings between his inarticulate wife and an inarticulate sheep.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

So that as it cometh to pass in massive bodies, that they have certain trepidations and waverings before they fix and settle, so it seemeth that by the providence of God this monarchy, before it was to settle in your majesty and your generations (in which I hope it is now established for ever), it had these prelusive changes and varieties.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

May these dry things live and brave the light of day with frolicsome waverings?

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003