How To Use Inconstant In A Sentence
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But with Kerry the charge isn't that he's inconstant.
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The inconstant Moon is well named because the closeness of the Moon to Earth changes with the Sun's tidal force - its differential gravitation.
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In addition, feminist readings have detected in city comedy the salient traits of a dominant early modern discourse that constructs women as naturally incontinent and inconstant.
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We beheld an immense body of water fall two hundred and fifty feet, dashing from rock to rock, and casting a spray which formed a mist around it, in the midst of which hung a multitude of sunbows, which faded or became unspeakably vivid, as the inconstant sun shone through the clouds.
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an inconstant lover
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After this, came the dinner and the letter writing, and some more talking, in the course of which Miss Haredale took occasion to charge upon Dolly certain flirtish and inconstant propensities, which accusations Dolly seemed to think very complimentary indeed, and to be mightily amused with.
Barnaby Rudge
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They're almost cheerfully callous and casually inconstant.
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Therefore the genre of Troilus and Cressida is as inconstant as the characters it describes.
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Joshua Morgan's life was ruled by inconstant weather.
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I have heard him called inconstant of purpose — when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose.
The Last Man
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Now, the difference between "impermanent" and "inconstant" may seem semantic, but it's crucial to the way anicca functions in the Buddha's teachings.
All About Change by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Emily, the youngest was brown-haired and had inconstant hazel eyes that commonly bordered on green.
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At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth.
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How inconstant are your feelings! but a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints?
Chapter 17
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Another hour and the schooner's name can be deciphered quite easily -- _L'Inconstant_, and that of the polacca _Le Saint-Esprit_.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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‘Good’ and ‘evil’ are inconstant names applied haphazardly by different men to what attracts or repels them.
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Two inconstant phenomena arise in the development of China: the state's politicalization and the society's economization.
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Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world.
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He was an inconstant man, impulsive and greedy.
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One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
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The world is cruel and rancid, the body is a receptacle of foul gasses and inconstant emotions, and the soul is a paltry fiction.
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Would that you again resemble the inconstant people who knew only effervescence, which we falsely called enthusiasm!
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I think the life of an actor has a divinity to it; its rhythms are so inconsistent and inconstant.
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Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
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Our passions, they concede, make us false, foolish, inconstant, and uncertain.
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The Countesse had scarce made an ende of her tale, but one came to tell them that the Tables were couered for dinner: the king well fedde with Loue, dined for that time very soberly, and not able to eate but vppon amorous dishes, did caste his lokes inconstantly here and there, and still his eyes threw the last loke vppon that part of the table where the Countesse sate, meaninge thereby to extinguish the boiling flames, which incessantly did burne him, howbeit by thinking to coole them, he further plonged himselfe therein.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love: is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
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It was this inconstant wind, he remembered, that had frozen Tamara's face and nearly killed her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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inconstant affections
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And yet it seems to me that much of what we encounter in our religious life may be called ‘crypto-religious’: elusive, inconstant, hard to define, and yet genuine even so.
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This Stoic tradition was quite clear that respect for human dignity could move us to appropriate action, both personal and social, without our having to rely at all on the messier and more inconstant motive of compassion.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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It was this inconstant wind, he remembered, that had frozen Tamara's face and nearly killed her.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Magnetis inconstantiam n騬it, et ad poli, eleuationem per instrumenta subinde respiciat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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All the diverse sciences , technologies, and schools of theurgies are inconstant Dao that create integrated matters.
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Now, the difference between "impermanent" and "inconstant" may seem semantic, but it's crucial to the way anicca functions in the Buddha's teachings.
All About Change by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
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swear not by...the inconstant moon
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But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark.
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It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country.
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The outline of the bright, inconstant moon attends strictly to the position of the sun.
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Life is too absurd and inconstant and contradictory to stop her from having it all, having it any way she wants.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Among her pithy observations was the fact that ‘men are vile inconstant toads’; and that ‘civility costs nothing and buys everything’.
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And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious.
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The star is still inconstant, however; modern measurements show that, even from one day to the next, T Tauri's brightness can change by as much as half its typical output.
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Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away.
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When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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It knows that attention on the part of the western powers is inconstant.
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By a second order, which issued from the same jealous and inconstant councils, Ursicinus was again despatched to the frontier of Mesopotamia, and condemned to sustain the labors of a war, the honors of which had been transferred to his unworthy rival.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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As more information becomes available, the description, definition, and diagnostic criteria may undergo revision, although we do not usually redefine the disease to include inconstant features.
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The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
Ulysses
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And that tells voters (as it probably should) that you're inconstant and unserious.
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She had dirty blonde hair which had that straight, heavy look that often comes with inconstant grooming.
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Alas, the social scene is as fluid and inconstant as everything else in this turbulent country.
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The _thyreoidea ima_ artery -- an inconstant branch of the anonyma (innominate) or of the aorta -- runs in front of the trachea as far up as the thyreoid isthmus.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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One can be physically promiscuous without being emotionally unfaithful, flighty, or inconstant.
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But fire is a strange stuff to make the origin of all things, for it is the most inconstant and changeable.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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Early in the story, the narrator establishes that Diane is representative of her sex in being deceptive, manipulative, and inconstant.
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Life is too absurd and inconstant and contradictory to stop her from having it all, having it any way she wants.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Derry's achilles heel so far in the current campaign has been a lacklustre, inconstant midfield.
