(noun) a change or variation occurring in the course of something; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs
the vicissitudes of human relatings
as though love were a full comprehensive insurance policy that could protect both parties from the vicissitudes of the real world of loss and disappointment
Fromm writing about marriage (after his wife died)
It is food that offers the most visceral embodiment of the benefits of the slow lifestyle, overcoming the vicissitudes of fast-paced capitalism by returning to an older culture of savouring meals and traditional production techniques.
Amid the political vicissitudes of the early 1990s, contemporary poetry itself seemed incapable of generating new political meanings
How can culture and subjectivity not be transformed, when opened to the vicissitudes of this vaster landscape and population which is globalization itself?
something exempt from the vicissitudes of time and history
an ongoing event whose discrete parts and moments, whatever their particular shapes and vicissitudes (vicissitudes! I'd susurrate the word time and again) have run together
protected from the vicissitudes of Google's own economic fortunes
What might appear to each of us as vicissitudes of fate and fortune are actually organized by more durable relationships and processes that usually remain opaque.
an ideal, a kind of abstract utopia, a recovered country free of vicissitudes
don't the recent vicissitudes of Muslim fundamentalism confirm Walter Benjamin's old insight that 'every rise of Fascism bears witness to a failed revolution'?
How will the lives of the enlistees in the enterprise turn out, will they be sad or joyful? That will be decided by the vicissitudes of the process of epithumogenesis.