The mercurial troubadour has forsaken 88 keys in favor of syncopated rhythms, turntables and a human beatbox. |
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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. |
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He's hopped up all right, juiced from this magical, mercurial ride that just gets better with each season. |
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He then embarked upon a legal career which was characterised by often brilliant legal exposition, and mercurial temperament. |
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No sooner was Doherty back in the team than the mercurial ability of Graham Geraghty hoved into view. |
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Okada projected the mercurial shift of moods in Beethoven's Fantasie Op 77 with resonant sonority. |
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In a mercurial change of temper, he grabbed her shoulders and shook her, once, twice. |
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Their awkwardness, overextended maturity, mercurial temperaments, and easy companionship were all spot on. |
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Nor does she depict adolescence as a period of mental instability, characterized by mercurial moods and impulsive, self-gratifying actions. |
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During his four years in office, Mr. Chen has proven to be a mercurial and unpredictable leader. |
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Ms Short is notorious for her outspoken comments and her mercurial temperament. |
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Mrs. Lincoln became known as much for her fashion sense as her mercurial temperament and place in history. |
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He had a mercurial temperament and was never one to hold back his views, even in the face of opposition. |
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Trained to turn on a sixpence, these elite dancers are at once quick and mercurial, plastic and realistic, then gracefully classical. |
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The mercurial winger has been the subject of a summer of speculation since being shipped out on loan to Reading in April. |
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No matter how hard we try, we can't have power over a mercurial economy, back-stabbing co-workers or temperamental managers. |
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Regardless of her mercurial mood, he always managed to stay gentle with her. |
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No decision of importance could be made without the chairman, and he was mercurial, often changing his mind once a decision had been made. |
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Could it be my mercurial temper, causing many rash actions or hurtful, wicked comments? |
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In acute LV failure with pulmonary edema, phlebotomy, rotating tourniquets, and parenteral mercurial diuretics were effective. |
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Brownish-black may indicate chronic mercurial poisoning caused by the formation of sulfide of mercury in the tissues. |
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Mercury amalgams are used in dentistry, and mercurial aids such as the thermometer and blood pressure apparatus aid the doctor. |
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This research is an effort to create an awareness. of the potential hazards of some Chinese patent medicines which contain mercurial ingredients. |
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He was a very sparkling, mercurial personality, quick to embrace you, as well as to criticize if I felt that something wasn't right. |
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Ultimately, that's for the voters to decide, and recent history shows them to be a mercurial, at times capricious lot. |
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It's almost fruitless to say that design is or needs one thing or another, since design is such suffusive and mercurial thing. |
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The book takes us backstage during the performance, and shows us a consummately complex man, urbane, mercurial, bitter, funny and, again, bitter. |
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While the Grand Canyon and Zion have an almost divine grandeur, Bryce feels more mercurial. |
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Most Geminians never lose their sense of wonder, but if you have, it is time to get back in touch with that mercurial inner child. |
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Everyone is wise to the mercury dangers in paints, but patients need to know that button batteries, mercurial antiseptics and broken thermometers are sources of mercury. |
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A dictionary would define mercurial as something being characterised by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood. |
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Over the years, researchers provided Eli Lilly with numerous articles indicating the hazards of injecting humans with mercurial substances such as thimerosal. |
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Silver' gleams in bursts of repeated notes, while mercurial skittering through various registers evokes the 'quicksilver' aspect. |
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Meanwhile, a mercurial newspaperman appears to be a friend and a socialist sympathiser, but he soon changes tack, hinting that he knows too much. |
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Gone was the mercurial, tempestuous socialite who didn't know what she wanted, swung from mood to mood, loved childish games, or danced the night away. |
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As a result, relations with New Delhi and its mercurial diplomatic gadfly, Krishna Menon, suffered. |
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At times you feel frustrated with Ellie and her mercurial temperament. |
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Dominic Hill's cast are buoyantly energised, with Stone-Fewings a mercurial lead, prefiguring Molière's imposter Tartuffe. |
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They seem mercurial, impossible to get a handle on, as they work out their identities. |
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Most biographers have attributed her tenacity and audaciousness to the competitive, mercurial nature of an acting career in New York and Hollywood. |
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Carter's pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys' statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries and mercurial bop runs. |
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This kind of relationship takes years to develop and is never easy due to the mercurial nature of politics. |
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To blow off those dear friends who've put up with your mercurial moods for long is just plain cruel and thoughtless, so start returning those calls and those emails. |
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Jim's mind is mercurial, but I like his company more than anything. |
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Since the recession, a mercurial job market has made it difficult for many vets to find steady employment. |
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They are superstitious, violent, passionate, mercurial, and secretive, with a greater belief in dragons than in any saint. |
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In this mercurial world, can the ideology and commitment to racism be turned off as quickly as the computer? |
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The city of Shanghai, the symbol of China's mercurial economic development over the past twenty years, is hosting the event. |
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I want you to write a very light, happy piece, witty, mercurial, like a Scarlatti Sonata, using a small chamber-like transparent orchestration? |
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The brilliantly mercurial Retrograde, along with all the songs here, were good enough to reverse a retrograde Mercury. |
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Beneath the table his feet are doing their own private dance, while the wiry hair that crowns his angular, mercurial features is a buzz of static feedback. |
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Back in 1971, the mercurial Alex Murphy pulled off a minor miracle when unfancied Leigh toppled red-hot favourites Leeds to win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley. |
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In the Gorky household, the young Berberova got to explore Moura's mercurial and secretive nature. |
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The opening section is tender, with a chromatically falling bass, the second toccata-like, the third expansive and florid, the fourth mercurial, the fifth agitated, and the last fugal, providing a triumphant conclusion. |
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A deep-lying striker who makes all the difference through deft passes, mercurial runs forward and decisive goals, Saad once again proved to be Libya's most reliable star. |
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The work is situated in a mercurial time-space and includes references to Stravinsky's original The Rite of Spring for certain choreographic sequences, but placed in a resolutely abstract and contemporary context. |
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Charismatic, mercurial in motion, Navas creates dance that is elegant, formalistic in concept, illuminated by an aura of magical fantasy and a sense of universality. |
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They avoid mercurial price swings for energy. |
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The mercurial Bülow was livid with rage and started a letter-writing campaign against both critics, until Liszt intervened and told Bülow to desist, saying that he should not take the press so seriously. |
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Only McCulloch and mercurial guitarist Will Sergeant remain from the band's original line-up, and tonight their new songs merely fill in time between their stream of classic, chiming, immaculate post-punk confections. |
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To scour the world for little people you can taunt, and then pal up with the hip and rich: that is not an advisable path for any comic to pursue, let alone one as sharp and mercurial as Baron Cohen. |
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With mercurial Messier and wunderkind Wayne Gretzky on the roster, it was only a matter of time before Edmonton would join the ranks of Stanley Cup champions. |
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Thus, anthropologist Joan Vincent observed that ethnic boundaries often have a mercurial character. |
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He was a whirlwind of a person, bright, mercurial, great fun. |
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The mercurial Russian had just upset Pete Sampras for the 2000 US Open title when he joined Letterman to discuss the merits of vodka for breakfast and Anna Kournikova's Grand Slam prospects. |
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When all is said and done, we hope that our reading may encourage others to rediscover the freshness, excitement, and mercurial energy that would surely have characterized early performances of this wonderful repertoire. |
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The mercurial Argentinian's premature exit cost him a one-year suspension from football and made him an object of scorn in Kadikoy, the district of Istanbul where the club is located. |
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With the mercurial John Horton and the incisive Mike Beese, the side continued to develop Bath's reputation in the early Seventies with wins over the top Welsh sides. |
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The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. |
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Lebanon has shown once again that it is a land of dazzling deals and mercurial personalities, including in the realm of the national presidency itself. |
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Uranian mind-vibes can sometimes get Mercurial Virgos overwrought and on edge. |
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I'm not saying those turning points are punctuated by Mercurial storms like I was some Greek hero or something. |
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Every person, by his own astrological make up will have a Mercurial connection with the transpersonal plants, either by aspect or sign rulership. |
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The agate stones have a very earthy, grounding influence, which can be invaluable to the Mercurial personality. |
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