Sentence examples for perpetually between from inspiring English sources

Switching perpetually between passionate devotion and frustrating coldness, she bedeviled all her men, Gropius — who as director had to hide his troubles with her — in particular.

As the complex lost soul who can be at once endearing and infuriating, he slips perpetually between irascibility and incoherence, focusing just long enough to exasperate those around him.

The mighty ensemble dramas of recent years, from Hill Street Blues to The West Wing, play particularly well to this sublimated theme of the American family moving perpetually between discord and reconciliation.

Gentle piano accompaniment and delicate vocal harmonies lend the proceedings a churchy kind of grace, which seems to suspend the eclectic and sometimes patently absurd music perpetually between the ridiculous and the sublime.

The proposal has the advantage of permitting the US to maintain a military presence in an area vital to its interests, without the baggage of having to choose perpetually between those who merely want to kick us out and those who want to kill us.

The critics said: "As the complex lost soul who can be at once endearing and infuriating, he slips perpetually between irascibility and incoherence, focusing just long enough to exasperate those around him.

The women in Alice Munro's stories, like the men in the fiction of John Updike, find themselves perpetually torn between two poles: between domesticity and independence; between familial roots and freedom; between a yearning for connection and a more solitary sense of themselves as outsiders.

As the subtitle suggests, this New York chef is perpetually torn between respect for the Old World and ambition in the New, between preserving his mother's family recipes (such as beef stew with leeks and cinnamon) and presenting the Mediterranean fantasias of his sleek Manhattan restaurant, Anthos (such as sea urchin tzatziki).

The movie has a fan's heart, a sense of loving every goofball moment, but as directed by Mike Mendez it also seems perpetually caught between being a spoof or playing it straight and winds up falling between the cracks rather than rising above.

They were perpetually torn between running and standing their ground to spend a precious bullet on a lurching monster.

There's the electric sensation that all is held in suspense, while perpetually shifting between one state and another.