mercurial
Example Sentences
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Fourth was the mercurial Arwel Thomas, who was the star man for Swansea and whom Henson tried to learn off when starting out as a young player.
From BBC
The novel recounts the investigative bread-crumb trail he follows into rural Peru to uncover the background of this vain, mercurial prodigy.
Valieva, a mercurial talent who performances drew worldwide attention, was eventually banned for four years over her failed drugs test, but there were no sanctions for any of her entourage.
From BBC
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
Warsh’s political skills helped him land the job and might also help him manage the mercurial president.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
