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How to use mercurial in a sentence

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The mercurial troubadour has forsaken 88 keys in favor of syncopated rhythms, turntables and a human beatbox.
In this production, the grave duke seems an ill match for the mercurial Lucio, and he must rouse all his ducal authority to muzzle the fool.
He's hopped up all right, juiced from this magical, mercurial ride that just gets better with each season.
He then embarked upon a legal career which was characterised by often brilliant legal exposition, and mercurial temperament.
No sooner was Doherty back in the team than the mercurial ability of Graham Geraghty hoved into view.
Okada projected the mercurial shift of moods in Beethoven's Fantasie Op 77 with resonant sonority.
In a mercurial change of temper, he grabbed her shoulders and shook her, once, twice.
Their awkwardness, overextended maturity, mercurial temperaments, and easy companionship were all spot on.
Nor does she depict adolescence as a period of mental instability, characterized by mercurial moods and impulsive, self-gratifying actions.
During his four years in office, Mr. Chen has proven to be a mercurial and unpredictable leader.
Ms Short is notorious for her outspoken comments and her mercurial temperament.
Mrs. Lincoln became known as much for her fashion sense as her mercurial temperament and place in history.
He had a mercurial temperament and was never one to hold back his views, even in the face of opposition.
Trained to turn on a sixpence, these elite dancers are at once quick and mercurial, plastic and realistic, then gracefully classical.
The mercurial winger has been the subject of a summer of speculation since being shipped out on loan to Reading in April.
No matter how hard we try, we can't have power over a mercurial economy, back-stabbing co-workers or temperamental managers.
Regardless of her mercurial mood, he always managed to stay gentle with her.
No decision of importance could be made without the chairman, and he was mercurial, often changing his mind once a decision had been made.
Could it be my mercurial temper, causing many rash actions or hurtful, wicked comments?
In acute LV failure with pulmonary edema, phlebotomy, rotating tourniquets, and parenteral mercurial diuretics were effective.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The simplest method is that known as the method of Gay Lussac in the calibration of mercurial thermometers or tubes of small bore.
The subsequent progress of unarrested mercurial stomatitis is that of ulcerous stomatitis.
The saying, too deep for Sunday afternoon, would have passed unanswered, but for the mercurial nature of young Mont.
Their bodies are elastically supple, with free sway from the hips and a mercurial poise upon the ankle.
The pubic louse may be exterminated by the measures recommended for the head louse, or by the use of officinal mercurial ointment.
When this prescription had produced a little ptyalism the mercurial was omitted and the squill and digitalis continued.
Lotions of the smaller centaury or of stavesacre, and pomatum mixed with mercurial ointment, are very efficacious.
In such cases, if resorcin preparations also fail, the mercurial lotion and ointment employed in acne may be prescribed.
Graceless he may have been, but a dullard the mercurial 'King Colley' was not.
The champagne was bubbling trickily in the veins of the mercurial statesmen.
Vidi, measures approximately, but not with the permanence of the mercurial.
He is of that deep, mercurial disposition that attracts women.
Of a fiery, mercurial disposition, his temper flew in a moment.
He took iodide of potassium for a time after his mercurial course.
Astor was not overconfident of the stability and firm faith of these mercurial beings.
If read with care and much hard work, Bruell's book gives an education in the proper method of following Socrates' highly eristic, mercurial arguments.
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