0 present participle of vacillate
1 to be uncertain what to do, or to change often between two opinions:
Moreover, his chain of thought is realistically and movingly depicted, vacillating as it does between hope and despair.
However, he fails to see that even in a silent film the visual language of cinema can be equally vacillating and ambiguous.
The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples of vacillating sounds.
Social policy itself was increasingly vacillating between seeing older people as dependent social casualties, and seeing them as individuals capable of exercising choice.
Interestingly, the extremes of the diagram meet: vacillating sound objects and accumulations can be very similar.
From there on we proceed to increased spectral differentiation, inclusion of elements of contrasting sound spectrum, eventually spectral fluctuations with increasingly irregular pulse, until we arrive at the vacillating object.
But what of the harvest that the country is reaping from this limp and vacillating policy?
Among soldiers and sailors and people generally there is an impression that vacillating political policies have been our undoing in the past.
