| More pioneering genres were undertaken as a result of social and political vicissitudes. |
| He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified. |
| The notion of freedom was redefined subjectively, as an inner state that can be maintained despite the vicissitudes of political life. |
| It is possible there may have been several vicissitudes of changes wrought upon the same part of the Earth. |
| It's just a human machine for getting news out and subject to the normal vicissitudes of human flummery. |
| He was a moderate Islamist who was skilled at weathering the vicissitudes of Somali politics. |
