Sentence examples for that were alternately from inspiring English sources

Their works helped redefine popular music with songs rooted in the blues that were alternately poetic, confessional and political.

MOSCOW — For three and a half hours on Thursday, in tones that were alternately pugilistic and needy, Vladimir V. Putin tried to explain himself.

In tones that were alternately pugilistic and needy, he expressed only bafflement that those in the West did not accept Russia's explanation that it had simply acted in defense of its citizens.

In the minutes after the police arrested and charged him last month with a 28-hour rampage that left four people dead, Maksim Gelman began babbling to the police, saying things that were alternately grim, confusing and just plain bizarre.

He broke up the Eleatics' motionless, and therefore timeless, unitary reality into a movement of four elements that were alternately harmonized by Love and set at variance by Strife.

Alan Burnham, the executive director of the city's nascent Landmark Preservation Commission at the time, filed a "meek request" asking United States Steel to consider preserving the lobby of the building, which Mr. Gray described as "a forest of marble columns" that were "alternately rendered in the monogram of the Singer Company and, quite inventively, as a huge needle, thread and bobbin".

It's an approach that's alternately intriguing and infuriating.

But he has persevered with a disposition that is alternately sunny and fiery.

Most Nilotes occupy savanna country that is alternately subject to flooding and drought.

Eventually, we learn their stories, in language that's alternately poetic and matter-of-fact.

The story only rarely escapes an aura of familiarity that is alternately soothing and irritating.