With great care and genuine curiosity Thomkins manipulated the color on the top of the water and created what he described as "something planetary, very light, and fluctuating". Each piece combines the calculation of a watchful artist with the spontaneity of water in motion, resulting in works that are intoxicating but distant, colorful but unknowable.
The pain was not described as being on a permanent level, but, rather, as fluctuating from a severe and intolerable level of pain to a more manageable pain.
Colombia's currency has what is described as a floating system, in which the value fluctuates according to the demand and supply of the market.
Throughout the book, Daisy is characterized mostly through her voice, which is described as a "low thrilling voice" possessed of a "fluctuating, feverish warmth" and an "exhilarating ripple".
His work has always fluctuated between what the critic Barbara Rose once described as "a minimal austerity and... an elaborated, celebratory, florid excess," but it has never stayed in one place long enough for him (or anyone else) to feel comfortable about it.
For telephone engineers, what was then called "fluctuating noise", and would now be described as random noise, i.e. shot and thermal noise, was much more noticeable than with early radio systems.
This fluctuating pattern was by the participants described as having bad and good periods.
Across its distribution, populations are often described as patchy, and worm densities in populations have been observed to fluctuate over time ([ 34, 40], pers. obs. JEK and KEK).
Soils have been described as aridisoils (Del Valle 1998), and water availability in them fluctuates from high levels in winter to low levels in late summer (Sala et al. 1989; Adler et al. 2006).
