She refuses to go back to Devdas and chides him for his cowardice and vacillation. Laziness may manifest as procrastination or vacillation. Intermittent or nonreciprocal responses lead to labile vacillation between despair and ecstacy. Trotsky described Stailinist vacillation as a symptom of the undemocratic nature of a ruling bureaucracy. It was Shah Alam II's poor judgement and vacillation that led to his own downfall. She would not suffer vacillation, foolish or otherwise. This vacillation between extremes meant that the episodes "sometimes" work. In the suspicious temper of the times, their vacillation was fatal. Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation. After some vacillation, Cakobau agreed to renounce his "Tui Viti" title. Thurmond also blamed Nixon's "vacillation" over school desegregation guidelines as another factor in Watson's defeat. There were decades of vacillation between the Latin and the Orthodox options. Like his predecessor, Dionysius, he has been charged with vacillation.