The work of a committee, it alternately takes steps toward being prophetic, then retreats toward caution.
It's a tango between you and the computer, with each party alternately taking the lead through arenas that shift and upset expectations.
Together they have tormented opponents in Baltimore's surge to Sunday's A.F.C. championship rematch at New England, alternately taking star turns.
Val Kilmer and Karen Young are the embattled parents who alternately take out their frustrations on each other and the boy, who is left to skulk miserably and take up petty crime.
Alternately, take an architectural tour of your city, and write an article in a style similar to the article read in class.
She greets these as signs that she has made the right or wrong choice, depending on her mood, the way Megan and Don alternately take pride in and feel ashamed by their posh new apartment in the city.
And somehow Ms. Hollander makes it all work, alternately taking liberties and staying on message, building an intricate constellation of connected artworks, histories and concerns and repeatedly revealing her museum's collection to be one of New York City's great treasures.
Mr. Na, reunited with the cinematographer and editor who worked on his feature debut, "The Chaser," makes this movie's 157 minutes fly with scenes that alternately take their time and compress life histories into a few shots and words.
Equity markets repeatedly rallied and then faltered as they alternately took heart from the strength of corporate profits and fretted over the sustainability of the economic recovery.Perhaps the biggest element of indecision concerned the outlook for inflation.
The boy is shrewd, resourceful, and willing to work hard; he becomes partners with a careless illegal (played by the great Mexican comic actor Eugenio Derbez), who alternately takes care of him and tries to shake him off.
