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

Creative Power" which eternally works and weaves: "In the tides of Life, in Action's storm, A fluctuant wave, A shuttle free, Birth and the Grave, An eternal sea, A weaving, flowing Life, all-glowing.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

Just now, therefore, Francis Lingen flowed murmuring on his way, like a purling brook, rippling, fluctuant, carrying insignificant straws, insects of the hour, on his course, never jamming, or heaving up, monotonous but soothing.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

She seemed to be clothed in fluctuant light, and yet it could not dim one radiance of her beauty.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

Society at Balderville was of the fluctuant, intermittent order that obtains at minor resorts; the crop of visitors was bad or good, according to the year, like the peaches or cotton.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday