| And then, like quicksilver, the New York Times editor who vowed to stay was gone. |
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| But he is an immensely gifted comic, with a quicksilver imagination which is like a video player permanently jammed in fast-forward. |
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| The usually quicksilver striker is looking jaded and he had three opportunities to put Dundee ahead before Hibs took the lead. |
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| Mercury has long been known also by the name quicksilver, because it is a silver liquid. |
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| But he has struggled to live up to that quicksilver performance and has made only limited appearances in the first team squad. |
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| Her dry Aussie wit is a godsend in an industry choked with airheads, and her quicksilver intelligence animates her luminous beauty. |
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| The dancing has to match the play's quicksilver banter, step for step, with skill and style. |
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| Much depends on the form of Ajax's quicksilver striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, so Swedes will hope that he actually makes it to Portugal. |
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| It is the secret, the mystery of quicksilver, that a metal of such enormous density can yet remain liquid. |
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| Although Merlis' prose remains as fluid as quicksilver, the narrative thrust progressively dwindles as Joel's quixotic journey nears its end. |
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| His enthusiasm was as legendary as his quicksilver movement from one scientific interest to another. |
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| Only the lizards seemed charmed by the sun, sliding like quicksilver among the crannies in the walls. |
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| More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form. |
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| In 1972, he gave a dazzling, quicksilver performance as an English aristocrat who believes himself to be the Messiah in The Ruling Class. |
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| Ed Blackwell plays it straight for the most part, with only occasional flashes of the quicksilver rhythmic trickery he excelled at. |
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| The trail once led from the cinnabar or quicksilver mines of Mount St Helena to the port of San Pablo. |
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| Quacks or quack salvers are named from quicksilver ointment peddlers who treated syphilis in the 16th century. |
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| The mind goes like quicksilver to the simple solution to a case and it would have seemed to me that the issue in this case is a very simple one. |
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| They view political power as a quicksilver that is always everywhere at once in society, and therefore nowhere in particular. |
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| What she made present to the audience was a quicksilver mind as well as a radiant body. |
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| In private his quicksilver manner can charm colleagues or just as quickly destroy them. |
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| My interests are now quicksilver streams that dart between, and are frequently dammed by, the immovable rocks of naps, meals, bedtimes and bubble-blowing sessions. |
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| Indeed, it was only neat work from Sauzee in the 20th minute which brought to an end a quicksilver run from the youngster as he glided past three Hibs men towards goal. |
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| The difficulties were immense, and the attention required to deal with Mr. Carter's quicksilver changes in movement and color unabating. |
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| And is it worse, in this respect, to be as shiftable as quicksilver or adamant and blinded by a sense of one's own goodness? |
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| One is by Justin Peck, the house choreographer, a seemingly bottomless well of ingenious, quicksilver movement. |
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| In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human. |
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| By increasing the amount of mercury allowed in coal-fired power plant emissions, he will ensure that every fish in every Great Lake contains unsafe levels of quicksilver. |
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| Kepler noted with satisfaction that it would be appropriate to correlate the sun with gold, the density of which is greater than that of quicksilver. |
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| Even if he danced at his best, he could not display the same quicksilver in jumps and polished tours, and his presence was less compelling and majestic. |
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| If one ventures to wonder whether Haitink has the quicksilver mind necessary for Mozart, it is only because his Verdi and Wagner were superlative. |
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| Drop your guard for a moment, and your hard-won gains slip like quicksilver from your grasp, leaving a muscle group to lag behind others or your rock-hard density to melt. |
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| Tex Avery had wit, quicksilver charm, and near-boundless inventive genius. |
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| Robert Martin whipped in a shot from the right wing and quicksilver forward Fabio Cretaro, who darted with menace, diverted the sliothar past Mayo's net-minder Michael Walsh. |
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| Mears, a quicksilver defender, made his debut as a replacement in the win over Nottingham Forest at Maine Road and will be another under Keegan's gaze. |
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| Stock-still bodyguards in sunglasses, the quicksilver glint of a cigarette case. |
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| Teamwork, presence of mind, quicksilver reflexes – this catch had everything. |
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| Hume was tireless, his ponderous public style betraying a quicksilver ability to analyse the issues. |
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| Her quicksilver changes of intent, complex multiple qualities, polyrhythms, and opposing body parts warred with Anderson's weeping strings to create a moving picture of grief. |
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| Parts containing dangerous substances as for instance quicksilver switches or condensers are dismounted and processed in an appropriate way. |
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| But that loss is more than made up for by attention to the hang, the single area which can make or break a show by this most quicksilver of artists. |
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| They assume, instead of quicksilver, a moist, cold, muddy matter, without any sulfur, that exudes from the earth as if it were its sweat, and think that all metals are made by its commingling with sulfur. |
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| Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae score highly in freshness and charm as Perdita and Florizel, and as a young shepherdess Beatriz Stix-Brunell is quicksilver. |
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| The 'quick reaction' was to have local residents clean the highly poisonous quicksilver without the necessary protective suits, masks and hand protection. |
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| Falstaff's miraculous music, written when Verdi was in his 80s, is lighter, defter, more quicksilver and far less lugubrious than any of Wagner's music-dramas. |
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| Thus, gold is made by the Sun or his influence, silver by the Moon, tin by Jupiter, copper by Venus, iron by Mars, lead by Saturn, and quicksilver by Mercury. |
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| She spat again and I saw the snuff flash brown through the sunlight then snake across the bare yard to roll into a ball, like quicksilver across the face of a mirror. |
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