Sentence examples for it wavers between from inspiring English sources

Though it wavers between sincerity and artifice, spontaneity and restraint, the smile's immutable function is to communicate, Trumble suggests.

There are moments when the result feels, quite by accident, like a David Lynch movie waiting to happen; it wavers between stiffness and secrecy, and there is a minor role for Laura Elena Harring, lately of "Mulholland Drive".

As it wavers between being a send-up of smiley-faced corporate duplicity and a sadistic comedy about a shark going after a goldfish, its identity becomes increasingly blurry.

The Rastafarian movement's internal contradictions go beyond its first-world reappropriation: it contains elements of theology and ideology while attempting to transcend both; it wavers between direct political engagement and a retreat into communitarian isolation; and it tries to reconcile black nationalism with an embrace of all colors and creeds (Marley's "One Love").

Then again without them, I'd be stuck at home with only my own opinion of myself as it wavers between the apocalyptic and the grandiose.

Once the Markov chain falls into a state belonging to an ergodic set, it never leaves that set, and it wavers between the states in that ergodic set from then on.

Not only did the project suffer from a dramatic downturn in the economy and initially annoy drivers with expensive parking, but it wavered between the theatrical and the tasteful: "It looks like it was designed by some Romanians based on a postcard of Las Vegas," said the Los Angeles architecture critic Michael Webb.

The best way for me to describe Obama's speech is that it wavered between very positive, positive, neutral and vague.

Her thesis production, Liminal, was so different that even Castro Kiltz has trouble categorizing it — she wavers between "tanztheater" [dance theater] and "Our Town-meets-music-meets-experimental-dance". Each of the 15 students in the cast played multiple roles, telling stories of transformational moments in the lives of small-town teens.

Ms. Wilson's voice is sumptuous the way Lauren Bacall's voice was, and because it's more sumptuous than a voice has any right to be, it wavers perilously between seductiveness and self-parody.

The clock is symbolic, sitting at the intersection of art and science, and it has wavered between two and 17 minutes until doom since its inception in 1947.