alternately

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Gary Gunn’s alternately delicate and lush musical score lends lyricism to scenes that often burst with barely contained anger and violence.

From Washington Post

In a recent rehearsal at Ballet West, the dancers looked alternately like jumping gazelles and figures in icons, their hands held out flat and heads tilted to the side.

From New York Times

She turns her men and women around and around in appraisal, allowing the available light to alternately flatter and roast them.

From New York Times

Things grow even weirder, alternately pitch-black to the point of slapstick, when Walter’s wife dies and the two men engage in a strange pas de deux.

From New York Times

That voice — alternately husky and silky, nimble, powerfully restrained — is what gives Abdelhamid’s songs their declarative oomph.

From New York Times