Sentence examples for in a pendulum from inspiring English sources

"It's true that history has moved in a pendulum, and we may be moving a little toward humanity, toward egalitarianism," he said.

Or ironising Proust, whom a vigilant desire for possession and knowledge imprisons in a pendulum that swings between suffering and boredom?

Since the 1950s levels have been introduced in which the line of sight is automatically leveled by passage through a system of prisms in a pendulum, thus removing the need to check the bubble.

In a pendulum clock an escape wheel is allowed to rotate through the pitch of one tooth for each double swing of the pendulum and to transmit an impulse to the pendulum to keep it swinging.

Fetishism in fashion "comes back and forth in a pendulum effect," she added -- "there in '92 and gone in '93, as if the designers suddenly say, 'Oh, we're all finished with that S/M look.' " Sometimes it returns with an ironic nod; sometimes as a knowing insider's reference; sometimes, it would seem, as a phantom expression of cultural anxiety.

His surrogate becomes the phoenix, forever dying in its bed of flame and then resurrecting itself from the ashes: So that a sumptuous monotony  Sets in, a pendulum of amethysts  In the shape of a bird, keyed up for ever fiercer  Flights between ardor and ashes...

Thus, in experiments in which a pendulum oscillates faster or slower than normal, the observers rate the oscillations violating the physical length-period relation as less natural than the oscillations complying with physics [ 34].

It was Latin America's misfortune in the 20th century to be caught in a pendulum-like oscillation between democracy and authoritarian rule.

What I did, as a parent, was to put my son in a pendulum-free, single educational philosophy private school that suited him, and that we are fortunate to be able to access and afford.

Horwitz, Kreitner, and Needham speculate if Tang Dynasty (618 907) era seismographs found their way to contemporary Japan; according to Needham, "instruments of apparently traditional type there in which a pendulum carries pins projecting in many directions and able to pierce a surrounding paper cylinder, have been described".

Even as they declare that both these changes are evolutionary, administration officials acknowledge that after a grueling war in Iraq, a pendulum has begun to swing in the direction of diplomacy.