by turns

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This nearly 25-minute expanded version—which brought the Monterey crowd to its feet—weaves together scored and improvised material as well as melodic and atonal elements and is, by turns, pious, pent-up, mournful, angry, swinging, chaotic and triumphant.

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Where “Warhead” does look ahead, it is by turns thought-provoking and terrifying.

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Fierce, comic and sweet by turns, this depiction of struggle and survival in the battle of love against greed is both satirical and deeply serious.

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In this account of life with a wild creature—a being by turns serene and frisky, trusting and standoffish—Ms. Dalton connects readers with the strangeness of the natural world.

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Alzheimer’s, like many progressive diseases, is, by turns, heart-wrenching, demoralizing and draining.

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