by turns

When my family moved to a new city during that time, I tracked the experience, by turns alienating and thrilling, in relation to my lack of a smartphone.

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” is by turns poignant and hilarious.

Every scene brings another layer to Kysyl’s performance, by turns curious, lonely and aggressive.

Her recent interview with CNN en Español was by turns contrite, combative and self-pitying.

As the film’s wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, Pearce creates a psychologically penetrating portrait of a man who is by turns generous and predatory, inquisitive and closed off, someone who ultimately reveals himself to be capable of true evil.