The main theme is a recurrent swing between an extreme geographic, cultural and geopolitical isolation and an apparently contradictory, equally extreme openness.
The effect, when it works, is like staying in the pause at the top of a swing, suspended between rapture and collapse.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, often seen as a swing vote between the four conservative and four liberal justices, suggested that children of same-sex couples would suffer an "immediate legal injury" under the ban.
Husseini is very committed to the new constitution and has formed a new Shiite bloc to act as a swing vote between the pro-Hezbollah and pro-democracy parties.
She quickly answered "Anthony Kennedy," her 80-year-old fellow justice who often casts a swing vote between the liberal and conservative wings. .
Haas's fascination with microtones, and particularly with the shimmering spectrum of overtones that arise from a resonating note, leads to an abiding ambiguity in his work, a pendulum swing between consonant purity and dissonant density.
He rode a bull market in stocks to pension gains, with a favorable swing between 1995 and 2001 of more than $1 billion in that expense item.
Though the SDLP has gained one seat, South Belfast, thanks to a massive swing between the UUP and DUP, the election has not been kind to the party.
Otherwise, how can one explain such a radical swing between the maximum sentence and the acquittal?
We may feel caught in a relentless swing between explosive anger and wrenching grief and shame.
