fluctuant

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The result was an unflattering portrait that emphasized "strong, although fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm."

From Time Magazine Archive

The dawn that imbues and enkindles Life's fluctuant and fugitive sea Dies down as the starshine that dwindles And cares not to be.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

So my Dream fell dead; and the fluctuant passion —  The stress and strain of the past re-grew, The world laughed on in its heedless fashion,  But Earth whirled worthless, because of you!

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

Somewhere fluctuant in my memory runs broken music—you have heard it?—"an ineffectual angel, beating his luminous wings within the void,"—something like that,—words descriptive of Shelley—they haunt me whenever I would recall Kristofer Hansteen.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

In the middle of the camp Daddy John's fire flared, the central point of illumination in a ring of fluctuant yellow.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine