vacillation

How To Use vacillation In A Sentence

• Any vacillation or procrastination, any contrary policy, is absolutely wrong.
• Who would prefer that Coleridge be Schelling?), but his career as a writer in motley genres and sundry places was enabled by his vacillation, his apostasies, the intractable irritability of his text. Site One: A Romantic Education.
• So then the question perhaps becomes, why should we care about these characters and their libidinous vacillations? Ilana Teitelbaum: Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The vacillation between being firm and compassionate pulls apart every policy proposal.
• This kind of vacillation and avoidance only feeds those fears. 03/15/2007
• The high level of vacillation in English policy during the famine years, however, and the existence of even niggardly efforts at relief, are inconsistent with a prior intent to exterminate and a systematic pursuit of that goal.
• 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
• There are, no doubt, some circumstances where firm action is urgently necessary and where vacillation or debate would be fatal.
• The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience, but vacillation, resignation and looking back.
• The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience, but vacillation, resignation and looking back.