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mercurial as in: mercurial twists of temperament
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She's a woman of mercurial moods.mercurial = tending to change quickly, frequently, and unpredictably
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Jack knew him to be a mercurial man, affable one moment, brittle the next.† (source)
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According to members of the extended family, his moods can be dark and mercurial, although they say his famous temper has lost much of its volatility in recent years.† (source)
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I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others—those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended—had said, and then acting as they would have done.† (source)
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Now he was just Will—maddening, mercurial, clever, funny Will—who patronized me and liked to play Professor Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle.† (source)
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It was just that Mike, brilliant, mercurial, irreverent Mike, was a little older and a little higher in the Shipboard pantheon than young Merin Aspic.† (source)
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Men are friendly to me at the restaurant, and sometimes they ask me to a movie, but there is no man like Jess, graceful and mysterious, no man like Ty, forthright and good and blind, no man like Pete, mercurial and haunted, no man like Daddy, who is what he is and can't be labeled.† (source)
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Then, mercurially, as though he'd read the letter, by God, for the last time in his life, he stuffed it like so much excelsior into its envelope.† (source)
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What was confusing was his mother's mercurial attitude.† (source)
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I was famous among my roommates for my mercurial mood-swings.† (source)
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Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig.† (source)
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But his mercurial mood shifted on me.† (source)
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Who knew that my extroverted, mercurial, overcaffeinated boyfriend would be so patient, so capable, and so resourceful?† (source)
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He is cruel and mercurial.† (source)
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Once out of the trees, the driveway dipped sharply and they could see the broad, mercurial Genesee River, and, right up against the river, on the nearer bank, the high, many-gabled house.† (source)
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"A mercurial product," Rinaldi said.† (source)
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