Adjective : unstable convictions. ,an unstable person. ,an unstable heartbeat. From Dictionary.com.
Crosses were made and fixed rather unstably in rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Highly charged and unstably-placed computer equipment strewn all over the house. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Ready for Baby] Reference
This implies that women are unstably both aesthetic subject and object at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Aesthetics] Reference
The little creature, rocking unstably on his wobbly legs, seemed not to see any of them for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
If we are not talking about gravity waves or unstably stratified resolved eddies, this may be besides the point of this thread. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference
The walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the refractoriness of the strata composing them. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
The official exposition of British “Liberalism” to-day still wriggles unstably because of these conflicting constituents, but on the whole the Whig strand now seems the weaker. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
And both techniques have the effect of rendering language as a conflicted system hovering unstably between reference and self-referral, connotative sensuousness and asemic grotesquery. From Wordnik.com. [K. Silem Mohammad Reads Elizabeth Bachinsky] Reference
The dispersion relation can be modified for idealized heating profiles, but the simplest thing is to take convectively unstable cases as unstably stratified by using negative N squared. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference
HP: The 2009 Conditions of Children in Orange County report found that the county has 22,025 homeless or unstably housed children (K-12), a nearly 30 percent increase from the previous year. From Wordnik.com. [Greatest Person Of The Day: Bruno Serato, Chef for LA's Richest and Poorest] Reference
However, the cone unstably balanced on its tip that begins to fall also is not a chaotic system as it has no other identifying features usually picked out as belonging to chaotic dynamics, such as nonlinear behavior (see below). From Wordnik.com. [Chaos] Reference
One known and acknowledged insane person to every five hundred sane persons, and among those are unreckoned numbers of unstably endowed and too mildly mannered lunatics to require public restraint, but none the less dangerous to the perpetuation of the mental stability of the race, is an appalling picture of fact for philanthropic conservators of the race to contemplate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations. From Wordnik.com. [Moon and Sixpence] Reference
Thus unstably seated upon his throne, Louis Philippe was in a state of great embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Makers of History Series] Reference
I have been struggling to think about how this imbalance may play out as the game appears to be unstably one sided. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
The rats scrambled about with a multiplicity of light gnawing sounds and the clicking of some trifles unstably balanced. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
Frozen people stood erect, strange, silent, self-conscious-looking dummies hung unstably in mid-stride, promenading upon the grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
The official exposition of British "Liberalism" to-day still wriggles unstably because of these conflicting constituents, but on the whole the Whig strand now seems the weaker. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
It must always be remembered that when the highly organized primitive system of mixed spiritual and physical restraints is removed, chastity becomes more delicately and unstably poised. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference
But, the bottom line: The 2009 Conditions of Children in Orange County report said the county has 22,025 homeless or unstably housed children (K-12), a nearly 30 percent increase from the previous year. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories] Reference
As it is pried up, say by a lever, from a position in which it lies on surface A, for instance, it will linger for a time unstably halfway up, and if the lever cease to urge it, it will tumble back or "relapse" under the continued pull of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
The experiment, coming alongside (and directly linked to) an enormous surge in powers of production and distribution (the empowering of commoners), has produced the most powerful, technologically creative, and unstably peaceful society history has yet to record. From Wordnik.com. [Augean Stables] Reference
Sunshine and a stirring wind were poured out over the land, fleets of towering clouds sailed upon urgent tremendous missions across the blue seas of heaven, and presently Mr. Polly was riding a little unstably along unfamiliar Surrey roads, wondering always what was round the next corner, and marking the blackthorn and looking out for the first white flower-buds of the may. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
Or there's a big explosion, drops some sizeable chunk of the structure into the hole, and the thing starts whirling and groaning like a limping bird around the hole, all its systems trying to keep it from going the rest of the way, oscillating unstably, bits coming too close, dropping off, the whole thing gradually breaking down, falling apart, and no one quite knows when the last of the whole damned thing is gonna go down like an ocean liner into the event horizon. From Wordnik.com. [story idea, rubber science] Reference
South America) is a vast sea of newly arrived and unstably rooted people. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
The chances of them to go back to 2007 it's very, very unlikely but the chances for them to remain at these high levels, and not only, at these unstably high levels are there, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [UN FAO Calls Meeting to Discuss Rising Food Prices] Reference
So you push and shove and clip off corners from the things so they’ll fit and you press in until finally almost everything sits unstably more or less in there; what doesn’t get heaved far away so that it won’t be noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Skyhooks and Tuned Decks and Bloombast (Oh My!)] Reference
I'm kind of feeling happy, but unstably so. From Wordnik.com. [The One With A Week In The Life] Reference
30% of children in the foster care system have a homeless or unstably housed parent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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