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"mercurial" Definitions
  1. (literary) often changing or reacting in a way that is unexpected synonym volatile
  2. (literary) lively and quick
  3. (specialist) containing mercury

964 Sentences With "mercurial"

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His R9 Mercurial soccer boots were also recently reimagined and inspired the Nike Mercurial Superfly VI versions worn by French teenager Kylian Mbappe at World Cup 2018.
Joining the Mercurial choir this week are Mars and Saturn.
So far Trump has taken a mercurial approach to CSRs.
Mr Trump is not as violent, but just as mercurial.
And for a mercurial leader like Trump, that's not nothing.
"American Mercurial," we can't leave the stage without playing it.
Whether it tames the famously mercurial entrepreneur is another question.
This one, in particular, may be more mercurial than most.
He was funny, bullheaded, mercurial, generous, deeply talented and driven.
Malawi is especially vulnerable to rising temperatures and mercurial rainfall.
He was the quintessential English eccentric and a mercurial genius.
Lupino is mercurial and assertive, her volatility matched by Garfield's.
He is mercurial and often dictates policy by Twitter feed.
Mr. Trump is mercurial, and can easily change his mind.
But Trump has been mercurial with his approach to China.
Firing Mr. Mueller: Mr. Trump is nothing if not mercurial.
He also ranks among the N.B.A. leaders in mercurial behavior.
Does that mean I should be very mercurial right now?
In turn, the dollar appreciated, and a mercurial president took notice.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's mercurial president, may be a stumbling block.
The women are Balanchine women: mercurial, elusive, conflicted in their independence.
Even Mr Trump's mercurial nature plays differently with friends and foes.
His mercurial play, perhaps, inspired a busy offseason for the Mets.
This exhibition is a comprehensive example of Spare's remarkable, mercurial talent.
I can't help it, I just love those moody, mercurial villains.
It's very mercurial and it sometimes goes down a wrong road.
With their subtle physical shifts come emotional ones, in mercurial succession.
And her resplendent voice matches her mercurial character's every emotional shift.
The mercurial player said he is equipped to deal with it.
But is also shows that he is mercurial, unreliable and untrustworthy.
The platform may be mercurial, but Upworthy still relies on it.
But the music is impassioned, defiantly mercurial and full of ideas.
The third movement is written as a mercurial, almost memorial passacaglia.
But it's not necessarily what this mercurial president will settle on.
It added to his concerns about working for a mercurial president.
The book's highlight, "SexCoven," is a showcase for Tamaki's mercurial style.
He was authentic and credible, while Hillary was mercurial and dishonest.
Instead, it reflects the shifting agendas of its notoriously mercurial founder.
And Rory McIlroy's mercurial round continues with another bogey on No. 6.
But clearly Ecuador's patience with the mercurial Wikileaks founder has worn thin.
Meanwhile, Trump has remained a mercurial figure in the House's immigration debate.
Kanye's entire career has hinged on presenting himself as a mercurial genius.
Yet with the mercurial Mr Sarkozy, it seems, nothing is ever certain.
Finally, the new president has to deal with the mercurial U.S. administration.
Here, you might imagine, is the mercurial spirit of the masquerade itself.
Or will they officially kneel at Dennis Schröder's Temple of Mercurial Allure?
Otherwise, she is magnetic in the role: persuasive, mercurial and occasionally cruel.
And because Twitter fame is mercurial, her milkshake-ducking was also inevitable.
His sister, Sawsan, is a creature of wild excess — angry, sexual, mercurial.
But it's been a rocky season for Rondo, a mercurial point guard.
Mr. Quartley's mercurial performance is quite magical enough on its own terms.
Jones, one of the most powerful and mercurial owners, had other plans.
It's just impossible to know with any certainty, given Trump's own mercurial nature.
No narrative, no argument — just the mercurial yet implicit unity of a relationship.
Perhaps it's that mercurial nature that makes her an endless source of fascination.
Duterte's office has often issued statements that contradict the mercurial president's public remarks.
His own daily tweets leave little doubt that he is mercurial and impulsive.
Elon Musk, Tesla's mercurial CEO, last month blamed Panasonic for the production delays.
But the smaller parties he will rely on can be mercurial and demanding.
Will he live with the threat posed by a mercurial, wildly unpredictable adversary?
Once upon (another) time, there was another mercurial forward who played for Liverpool.
Is it maddening to deal with a fractured caucus and a mercurial president?
Mercurial in structure, it includes semi-improvised sections for soloist and ensemble alike.
More than anything, his exhaustive research reveals the mercurial nature of its subject.
Mercurial to the core, this type of inconsistent boss is like Russian roulette.
Trump has proven himself throughout his life to be hugely mercurial and unpredictable.
But he also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and mercurial.
When he was present, Mr. Peres could be mercurial, some former colleagues said.
But Mr. Karl is a very persuasive guide to the show's mercurial moods.
Schnabel is interested in this difficult, mercurial man and attentive to his hardships.
The show-stealer is Shalini's mercurial mother, an "outrageous queen" of capricious gestures.
His music as Mind Over Mirrors is mercurial and mystical, effervescent and contemplative.
Like a good playlist, Pablo also feels mercurial and subject to sudden change.
That triggered an unusual response from the company's mercurial chairman and CEO, Nick Caporella.
WASHINGTON – Even by President Donald Trump&aposs mercurial standards, it was a quick shift.
ELON MUSK, a mercurial entrepreneur, wants to take Tesla, his electric-car firm, private.
Mariana, ever mercurial, chose Mat over Wyatt, leaving Wyatt to become a proto-Jesus.
At least Pence is objectionable in different ways than the mercurial and unorthodox Trump.
"Life isn't a schoolroom," Balint says when the mercurial Blanka defects to the West.
Water is mercurial, filled with light and motion, while rocks are constant and immovable.
Merkel invited his daughter Ivanka to Germany, seeking a channel to the mercurial President.
" (Same.) Along with tidbits of his highly-entertaining, mercurial wisdom—"truth is my goal.
Cather was a mercurial but brilliant critic, veering between ecstatic raves and brutal takedowns.
But Ryan, more than anyone, has to know that Trump is mercurial and unpredictable.
Two mercurial personalities, a history of geopolitical tension, nuclear weapons -- what could go wrong?
The succession mess leaves SoftBank and its mercurial founder harder than ever to read.
Tim Presley's White Fence project has always been mercurial, even for a psych band.
This is, in the end, less a book about mercurial change than mundane mismatch.
Still, he is known as occasionally mercurial and particular about everything, including his rehabilitation.
Ms. Kim's ascension, however, is no guarantee of protection from her brother's mercurial purges.
Mr. Trifonov ended with John Corigliano's inventive, mercurial "Fantasia on an Ostinato," from 1985.
At least that's the most recent decision, subject to change by the mercurial President.
Virgos are a mercurial bunch—as in they're literally ruled by the planet Mercury.
And as the president becomes increasingly mercurial and assertive, that's not at all certain.
The electric-carmaker is also to strengthen its oversight of Mr Musk's often mercurial communications.
When it comes to relationships with people, it turns out, Trump is even more mercurial.
But it was unsustainable, if only because mercurial politics was part of the magic potion.
My hope is that people really connect to it on a mercurial, deeply psychic level.
YouTube's thirteenth year has proved just as confusing, mercurial, and pimply as any human teenager's.
Diana's Aunt Josephine gives Anne something better to do than moan about Gilbert's mercurial moods.
In addition, the president's erratic and mercurial leadership style make him an unreliable negotiating partner.
It is mercurial, pragmatic and cynical; its meaning and values change to fit the circumstances.
T's brushstrokes are thin, translucent, and mercurial in their placement; they swirl into one other.
Pianists playing the Ballades have to balance multiple voices, and tame their rhapsodic, mercurial nature.
New Hampshire voters, in particular, are late deciders—and, even then, mercurial in their selections.
This is a risky endeavor that depresses margins, and where the hits can be mercurial.
While raising a family of seven on an artist's mercurial paycheck, he managed some miracles.
On a recent afternoon at the family's apartment, her sons' mercurial temperaments were on display.
People coveted these last blustery days of summer before the weather turned cold and mercurial.
A prime example was a mercurial figure who would repeatedly hound him with inessential advice.
And the Constitution would be applied in a manner that is mercurial, arbitrary, and unfair.
Mr. Trifonov said it took him a whole summer to learn these mercurial, complex pieces.
And there would be considerable risk in getting out ahead of his sometimes mercurial boss.
At home and on the page, she is the same person: quizzical, mercurial, terrifyingly perceptive.
In a Lonely Place, however, takes the archetype of a mercurial misanthropic misfit even further.
Mr. Altstaedt, with his penetrating sound, and the articulate Mr. Lonquich made this mercurial Prologue riveting.
More importantly, May avoided any major dramas while sharing a podium with the mercurial new President.
Days later, Pelosi's allies were still praising the Speaker for confronting the mercurial president head on.
This week it is rolling out the red carpet for the mercurial Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte.
Some view his ascension to the right hand of an already mercurial president with deep alarm.
Suddenly, you are floating in the theater, bathed in the mercurial colors of de Vincenzo's collection.
Like Steve Jobs, a similarly mercurial figure, the first part of his career ended in failure.
That, with a president as mercurial and inexperienced as Trump, will be difficult all the same.
She's presented as flaky, mercurial, distracted, somehow simultaneously too self-aware and not self-aware enough.
Listing everything, uh, mercurial, he's done since Philly would alone take up my allotted word count.
Sergey was exuberant, mercurial, strongly opinionated, and able to leap intellectual chasms in a single bound.
A reliable pro-Russian president is better than one known for emotional swings and mercurial opinions.
It's difficult to say; both present-day fame and posthumous reputation are elusive, mercurial, and multifactorial.
These books about the mercurial Saddam's last days show how far we still have to go.
His mercurial jurisprudence replicates and even gives the savor of legitimacy to a closely divided country.
Even so, questions lingered about whether the mercurial Trump would support any deal negotiators might craft.
For all of Watson's mercurial tendencies, there's little question he has an affinity for Augusta National.
On Soccer BARCELONA Once upon a time, there was a mercurial forward who played for Liverpool.
New York—one of the more mercurial, memorable contestants on the dating show Flavor of Love.
Mr. Andsnes delved beneath that surface to tease out the music's mercurial shifts and manic energy.
She's probably the most remarkable — and mercurial — living singer and composer you've almost certainly never heard.
But tragedy after tragedy shows that quakes still surprise and shock people with their mercurial behavior.
It's clear from Krosoczka's expressive illustrations that young Jarrett loves and needs his mercurial, unreliable mother.
There is tragedy, scandal, money trouble and Percy's mercurial (though in some ways entirely predictable) behavior.
He left several hundred letters, which Benner makes good use of in sketching a mercurial character.
Its central role for Taylor Stanley, a mixed-race dancer, was mercurial, slippery, hard to classify.
His Hamlet is antic, mercurial, unpredictable, but each line of verse comes across clearly, almost conversationally.
Still, he raises some valid concerns about Trump's mercurial nature in the Washington Post op-ed.
Leonard Bernstein once likened the Ninth's nearly 90 minutes of mercurial music to an irregular heartbeat.
President Donald Trump's aides have grown accustomed to ignoring their mercurial boss as they deem necessary.
Other officials don't dispute the author's general characterization of the president as a mercurial, difficult boss.
Conway has been called the "Trump whisperer" for her ability to influence the often mercurial president.
In December, his mercurial decision-making drove his widely respected defense secretary to quit in protest.
Methodical and mercurial, Gehr's Serene Velocity warps a prosaic university hallway into a fidgety, indomitable, uncertain entranceway.
The women, including those who spoke anonymously, describe a mercurial man whose employees whispered about inappropriate behavior.
Mercurial Fognini could be equally tricky and Wawrinka said he was not looking forward to playing him.
In some respect, this is faithful to the inherent inconsistency and mercurial policy stances of Donald Trump.
Even if Donald Trump is more partial to strongmen than Mr Obama was, they find him mercurial.
The company became a part of popular culture for its racy advertising and mercurial founder, Dov Charney.
The calm in the Aegean is dependent on the goodwill of Turkey's mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It was a catastrophic collapse, with poor bunker shots and water balls, even by Mickelson's mercurial standards.
What is unsettling is that Trump's latest position on DACA is in keeping with his mercurial personality.
Andrew Rosenthal Donald Trump can be a lot of things: outrageous, bigoted, mercurial, funny, unthinking and relentless.
You can't get answers out of a pet, and even non-resurrected cats are a bit mercurial.
It's a noisy environment and will probably remain a nervous, irresolute and mercurial tape for a while.
Still, with Medium — as with all mercurial tech platforms in publisher's clothing — everything is subject to change.
Steve Bannon, the mercurial mastermind behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has come under fire in recent weeks.
For this mercurial set, a pair of slippers and a feel-good best-seller just won't do.
So it's not the Trump administration's fault that North Korea is a mercurial and tough negotiating partner.
By default, Mr. Trump's mercurial behavior cast Mr. Kim and his advisers as the more mature diplomats.
People in coastal areas 100 years ago lived much more in harmony with these volatile, mercurial environments.
These wines can be mercurial, and the way the list is written only adds to the confusion.
Group dynamics also change significantly, sometimes in mercurial ways, when membership shifts or a pack loses individuals.
Customers began congregating on Reddit to discuss suing MoviePass, too, over the company's mercurial terms of service.
But Mr. Trump is famously mercurial and could change his mind before making his final decision public.
Gordon, who added his mother's name to his own in 1971, eventually reconnected with his mercurial father.
The president is mercurial, and often loses faith in top-level staff members after a few months.
But the president's mercurial approach to the conflict in Syria is in a category all its own.
Still, the party's strong backing powered her to victory in her primary against the mercurial Joe Sestak.
Trump's mercurial approach makes it impossible to know whether a deal – especially one that can stick – is approaching.
But does the North Korean which is infamously mercurial about these things, bear a lot of the responsibility?
Why it matters: Trump's summit could be doomed not by Kim's mercurial personality but by its impossible objective.
He had the precise certainty that comes from spending years experiencing Libya's equally mercurial and endlessly scheming tribes.
China's mercurial markets found only fleeting relief, underlining how little their gyrations have to do with economic fundamentals.
A bad turn in Taiwan's mercurial relations with China, its largest trading partner, could also make investors flee.
"Like many TVLine readers, I'm not ready to say goodbye to these tough, mercurial, complex women," he wrote.
How could they, when their famously mercurial boss's whims change from day to day and tweet to tweet?
The question becomes how we as a society mitigate personal risk in a future where jobs are mercurial.
It is well-documented that Trump is a rude, mercurial, vengeful boss who is, oxymoronically, an inattentive micromanager.
Walsh saw a raw, mercurial and quick winger with an eye-catching, but erratic, touch for the ball.
It's more evidence of what they see as the president's mercurial nature and his disdain for Washington's conventions.
Paire said he appreciated having a coach who did not try to change his mercurial on-court persona.
Global Soccer LONDON — Paul Pogba has been a mercurial force in the French midfield during the European Championships.
Already a mercurial boss, Trump has lashed out at aides he believes bear some responsibility for the morass.
The mercurial dictator has renounced state-sponsored terrorism, and cut back on the torture and executions of dissidents.
Staff at the White House residence largely describe Trump as a pleasant, if mercurial, man to work for.
But in other ways it's been an incredibly creative period and very strange in this very mercurial way.
In Hughes, Plath found not only a husband and companion but also a deep and exceedingly mercurial subject.
As his own citizens have known for a while, MBS himself can be mercurial and hard to predict.
Much the same could be said of the Rachmaninoff, which received a coherent yet flexible, even mercurial, account.
Her father is an opium addict and a mercurial disciplinarian who remarries upon his divorce from Julie's mother.
Like Sigmar Polke, Kilimnik is a mercurial artist who eschews a signature visual style and explores numerous directions.
Seymour's cast is so mercurial they change minds in midparagraph; mixed emotions are the order of the day.
Some described him as mercurial, saying that while he seems to be friendly now, that could suddenly change.
He left Manchester at the end of last season as a midfielder of lavish talent but mercurial effect.
He also successfully navigated a mercurial American president and clinched a sweeping trade deal with the United States.
Theater Review Katie Mitchell's adaptation of the 1928 novel is consistently one step behind Virginia Woolf's mercurial prose.
By midday Wednesday, the mercurial president was telling friends and advisers that he believed the situation had improved.
A mercurial leader, unctuous one moment, bitingly critical the next, Sheriff Shoar didn't countenance challenges to his authority.
Mr. Trump's mercurial ways may be a source of great concern or indifference, depending on your ideological leanings.
Ms. Rivera, who was a teenager when they married, found Mr. Hernandez to be mercurial, judgmental and domineering.
Pope Jude Law has fifteen outfits, a fresh alb and tippet for each aspect of his mercurial personality.
Former colleagues expressed sympathy for Mr. Sessions on Thursday for having to deal with the mercurial Mr. Trump.
But as accomplishments go, fomenting xenophobia and manipulating a famously mercurial political neophyte are thin evidence of genius.
In Farinelli and the King, that mercurial shift between vulnerability and brutality is fundamental to the narrative tension.
Egotistic, mercurial, erudite, recklessly affectionate, careless, vindictive, impulsive, he can turn from exasperating to heartbreaking in seconds flat.
Vice president, a role that, given Trump's mercurial managing style, could wind up with a lot of responsibility.
Trump's mercurial nature and tendency to do things like publicly assailing his own attorney general further incentivize leaking.
It keeps changing in a way that reflects the president's own mercurial nature and lack of detailed policy knowledge.
At the time, investors might have written off the early morning tweet as another outburst from a mercurial president.
Traders and money managers say a big part of the reason is the new president's mercurial and unpredictable approach.
West is mercurial and his entertaining mixture of talent, ego and unpredictability has a long narrative in popular culture.
He was a mercurial but visionary leader who helped position Intel's microprocessors as the central technology inside personal computers.
Needless to say, there will be plenty of content to keep you occupied as winter shifts into mercurial spring.
And fear of the mercurial dictator has yet to abate as he plots ways of clinging to the throne.
Although the president has ceased to belittle NATO, his mercurial policies have alienated many of the alliance's member states.
The teens of TikTok have taken on wealth inequality, climate change and the mercurial attentions of a slacktivist public.
The second is a more familiar sort of cinema, starring the brilliantly mercurial Rebecca Hall in the title role.
Dele Alli, a mercurial England attacker, is unusual for having learned in what he has called "a concrete cage".
In fairness, given the mercurial nature of the candidate, it's unclear what a Trump policy will actually look like.
These contradictions represent a challenge to the Democrats' liberal mullahs which is further complicated by Mr Biden's mercurial nature.
Known as moody and mercurial, Hurt grew up in Derbyshire, the youngest of three children of an Anglican vicar.
He also has the support of Muqtada al-Sadr, a mercurial Shia cleric whose followers dominate the protest movement.
To cope with such a mercurial existence, bacteria have evolved an astonishing array of chemical lures, signals and weapons.
Trump's loyalty is a mercurial thing -- like the rest of him -- and could dissipate or disappear at any moment.
And, given the mercurial atmosphere of Washington politics these days, maintaining leader engagement may be the most difficult challenge.
For one South Korean official involved in ties with the North, what's striking about Kim is his mercurial personality.
How does the always mercurial Trump react on Twitter to what looks like being caught in a blatant lie?
And he is working for a famously mercurial boss whose 20163 campaign had three shake-ups over six months.
The program's first half brought an attractive, occasionally mercurial rendition of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, with the pianist Jeremy Denk.
I like the idea of trading worldwide, easing our way out of reliance on the United States' mercurial dictates.
And among the most recognizable spinoffs is Peter, Dunbar's soused and mercurial sidekick, a feeble echo of Lear's Fool.
"Human behavior is mercurial and I think the show does as good a job as it can vetting contestants."
So, if you've ever called someone MERCURIAL or "capricious," know that the word was named after the PLANET Mercury.
Yet some raised questions about Milley's ability to navigate the fraught politics that come with advising a mercurial president.
She had a mercurial temper that rose fast and died suddenly, like a gust of wind in a tunnel.
The fact that the Iranians are dealing with an unpredictable and mercurial president must also figure into the equation.
It is wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they're hard to part with.
Of course, no one will be surprised if in his traditional mercurial fashion, he tweets some closing thoughts later.
It's the Crimson Tide's cupcake nonconference schedule that students walk out on, and the mercurial Saban has definitely noticed.
There's no grandeur to Mr. Dawson's Henry, and the whims of his mercurial mind feel less sudden than scripted.
The mercurial president cycles through highs and lows with his advisers, banishing them only to seek their counsel again.
Mr. Trump is showing only a tenuous grasp of the legislative process and mercurial leadership in rounding up support.
I had a rich guy to deal with, but I became very, very fond of Si. He was mercurial.
There's also his mercurial tweet promising to cancel the next Air Force One order from Boeing, which shocked investors.
The impact of the president on election results remains underdetermined, due in no small part to his own mercurial personality.
The president is mercurial, and the only person who can really know when Trump has confidence in someone is Trump.
The new project sees Tilden delving into noise pop, his mercurial croon floating atop lo-fi orchestrations and lilting melodies.
There's little doubt that plenty of wrestlers in WWE could make it without the stifling, mercurial McMahons dictating every move.
I haven't been back there since, but my affection for the most mercurial of family-friendly pets remains the same.
That's partly at the request of McConnell, who views the mercurial president warily and argued his public efforts could backfire.
A mercurial creature who aspires to be a painter herself, she swans in and out of his life at will.
The first is that Paul is once again inching closer to the president, with whom he's had a mercurial relationship.
Those days are long gone, but today Britain is establishing a new, looser, more mercurial sort of global administrative network.
Yes, they had to curry favor with Mr. Redstone, but they knew his mercurial side and the bad corporate governance.
But there are drawbacks to the proposal: Some GOP senators doubt that the mercurial Trump would comply with the terms.
But the choice is entirely up to Mr. Trump, who is famously mercurial and known to keep his own counsel.
Trump is too mercurial to be fully trusted on judicial appointments or any other issue that matters to the right.
"I don't think there's ever been a player like BT (Tomic)," Kyrgios, another of Australia's more mercurial talents, told reporters.
Ms. Ziskel and Mr. Beck returned for a sensitive performance of "Autumnal," a contemplative yet mercurial duo by Mr. Knussen.
While Federer's mercurial shot play brought constant gasps of admiration from the crowd, Djokovic's super power, while less obvious, prevailed.
Humans, the research often suggested, were reliably mercurial, highly suggestible, profoundly irrational, tricksters better at fooling ourselves than anyone else.
Recurring motifs bring structural cohesion to a 32-minute, three-movement score that on the surface sounds impetuous and mercurial.
People close to Mr. Trump have long praised Mr. Cobb as having a deft touch with an often mercurial president.
Having observed the shifting fortunes of this mercurial individual makes the cheery assessments of the situation seem disconnected from reality.
He was literally mercurial: brewing batches of quicksilver, cocaine and tribal medicines, drinking them down and then recording the results.
C.J. McCollum and Meyers Leonard, the team's mercurial 2014 Lottery picks often benched by the vet-tending Stotts, were retained.
In recent days, Mr. Garcia said, the mercurial policy shifts by the federal government have left his organization in chaos.
The book seems to suggest that the real American inheritance is transformation, and that American transformation is a mercurial thing.
They have circulated cartoons like one titled "Giant Baby Trump" to highlight what they describe as the president's mercurial tendencies.
The seas Ms. Lister conquered are known for mercurial weather and conditions that are arduous even for able-bodied sailors.
Some of Ms. Sanders's colleagues said they were impressed with her longevity working for a mercurial and perennially unsatisfied president.
Kit Kemp's hotels (two in New York, six in London) all show off her wandering eye and her mercurial taste.
Among other reasons, it's easy to dismiss the president's mercurial rage and flagrant insults as little more than temper tantrums.
The front-office remake will no doubt help a reputational reset, even with the mercurial Dolan still at the helm.
To the left, the official was a minor hero, someone who mitigated Trump's mercurial behavior on behalf of the country.
It was a far cry from the beginning of O'Rourke's mercurial run, which kicked off amid tremendous fanfare in March.
But legal work and diplomatic dabbling may not have given him sufficient expertise to guide a mercurial president's foreign policy.
Mr. Tillerson's principal challenge, of course, is serving a mercurial president whose ideas on foreign policy are short on substance.
By way of his cast's mercurial verbal jousting and gestural elegance, Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners.
Dependable on defense but mercurial on offense, the Giants have, in most games, constantly seemed one misstep away from disaster.
After months of niceties, North Korea has returned to its mercurial form and put the Trump-Kim summit in jeopardy.
Mr. Steyer has amassed a mixed win-loss record over the years, along with a mercurial reputation among Democratic strategists.
Kanye West is a shvantz, and with The Life Of Pablo, his mercurial, conceited attitude has noticeably outshined his work.
She's lived an unstable life since Day One Dany's "Stormborn" nickname served as a cautionary reminder of her family's mercurial temperament.
With the Scorpio sun percolating in your curiously mercurial third house until the 21st, your feelings could run towards the fickle.
Giulia Gwinn, the soccer side's mercurial midfielder scored the winning goal against China on Saturday — and she's only 19 years old.
That has included, at times heartbreakingly, being outgrown, forgotten and cast aside by the mercurial little people whose love animates them.
Mercurial Australian Kyrgios sent shockwaves around Wimbledon five years ago with a spellbinding fourth-round victory over two-time champion Nadal.
She's mercurial and dangerous, which could be seen as a a reflection of men's fear of the sexual power of women.
Given Mr Trump's mercurial personality and his peeves over America's bilateral trade deficit with the EU, the truce may prove fragile.
The mercurial chief strategist has largely receded from public view in recent months and reportedly has chosen his battles more carefully.
Still, MIO and MPO are expected to stay in orbit for about one Earth year, which would be four Mercurial years.
Antoine Griezmann, a once-mercurial winger who now buys into Simeone's demanding work ethic, scored the only goal, shortly after halftime.
Colman plays a frail and mercurial Queen Anne, Rachel Weisz plays close friend Lady Sarah, and Stone plays charming servant Abigail.
Phenomena that were once thought to be the province of mercurial gods are now known to have physical and understandable causes.
But she quickly realized she was working for a mercurial leader and she wasn't doing what she was hired to do.
Paak's voice, whether sung or spit, is scratchy and mercurial; in someone less practiced, it might sound comical or affected, but .
Europe would then be better equipped for the mercurial geopolitical theater in which it must now act with far greater autonomy.
Bananas be damned, considering how expensive and in-demand they are, avocados are absolutely the mercurial divas of the fruit world.
Many of its greatest growth stories over recent years have been in the tech sector, where bold, mercurial leaders loom large.
Trump has ushered in a new era of American hegemony, one in which the hegemon is adrift, mercurial, and utterly irresponsible.
As Lewis brings the now largely unknown Willkie to a new generation, his style can be as mercurial as his subject.
And even if they do, whether this mercurial president will bother to take notice of what they say is equally uncertain.
A whole team of mercurial Hungarians couldn't either, despite having previously won five of the last six ties between the two.
Until then, the two were publicly friendly — no easy feat, given that Champion's mercurial temper was legendary in the book world.
Beck of "Villette," how much Constantin the dark, vain, mercurial Paul Emanuel, who dazzles Lucy Snowe with his erudition and energy.
Dear Annabel,I'm a Gemini, and a mercurial one at that—previously prone to repressed feelings, unchecked grief, and self-centeredness.
The Unsworth case is one of several legal actions faced by Tesla and its mercurial CEO in the last few years.
During one stretch, she found common ground between two of Brahms's searching intermezzos and a few of Chopin's mercurial, lilting mazurkas.
At the White House, she was one of the few aides who could anticipate, and sometimes temper, Mr. Trump's mercurial moods.
The mercurial politicians who demand our stringent, focused repudiation tend to prompt, instead, knee-jerk responses — angry email threads, reactive essays.
Then there was a damning tale of the struggles inside Nest, Alphabet's connected device company, and its mercurial CEO, Tony Fadell.
Mr. Trump's sudden moderation on China was particularly striking because, in an otherwise mercurial career, he had remained consistent on trade.
Molineu's mercurial daughter, Jeannette, becomes the object of Midhat's romantic longings, their intimacy nurtured by the shared ache of lost mothers.
But foreign interest in buying into Aramco might have been dented by the mercurial reputation of its chairman, the crown prince.
Though there are intricate, soft-spoken strands of music in this brooding, mercurial work, it also has stretches of frenzied intensity.
The Pérez Art Museum Miami, completed in 2013, was designed by Herzog & de Meuron with the area's mercurial weather in mind.
This may not be the way you'd always want to hear this mercurial symphony; here it seemed well outside Stalin's shadow.
As well as repeatedly missing targets in recent years, Musk's mercurial behavior has come under scrutiny from financial regulators and shareholders.
The mercurial, mysterious slow movement was the strongest music, with intriguing cluster chords in the piano and shimmering, eerie orchestra sonorities.
Mr. Biondi said his relationship with the mercurial Mr. Redstone had soured as Mr. Redstone took an increasingly hands-on role.
Prosecutors sought to portray Mr. Hernandez, 55, as someone whose unassuming demeanor in court belied a fierce temper and mercurial nature.
And Fox's mercurial strategy has proved to be undeniably lucrative; today, with profits rising, network executives can offer contributors plush salaries.
Henry VIII was renowned for his mercurial temper, for his ability to keep friends and foes alike guessing and off-balance.
Mr. Sarkozy, 62, a mercurial right-wing politician who was president of France from 2007 to 453, has denied any wrongdoing.
It's the first major show in New York for the mercurial Bay Area artist, who died in 2008, at seventy-five.
Like the golden snitch of American politics, white voters have become prized due to their mercurial nature, not in spite of it.
Do they in fact opine little about context — political or even art-historical — and remain mercurial, temporal facts of their own materials?
Three centuries later, a more detailed treatise specified the inclusion of obscure, exotic substances such as mercurial salts and compounds of sulfur.
But on the other hand, Jeremih has always been very upfront about who he is, and it is indeed a mercurial identity.
Q: What has being in the fashion business, which can be mercurial and unforgiving, taught you about being a good business person?
In March, I was blackmailed by a mercurial self-help guru after he took hotel room pictures of me with a prostitute.
Each character is flawed and likable, particularly Lady Bird (Ms Ronan)—a moody, pimply teenager, who is quick-witted, mercurial and observant.
Charles BronsonThe world's most infamous bare knuckle brawler and mercurial inmate against the most dedicated, disciplined and studied fighters of our time!
At a moment of solid economic fundamentals, what confounds forecasting now are the mercurial whims of a single man – President Donald Trump.
Small wonder, then, that Mr Duterte, who is as mercurial as he is expressive, appears to have had a change of heart.
A river is a mercurial thing, running deep and fast in the rainy season, and low and slow when the rains fade.
Unlike the now typical mercurial K-pop bands, SHINee has been around for almost a decade, constantly evolving their look and sound.
Trump is mercurial and prone to do a great deal of damage in the service of his half-baked objectives—as usual.
For months, Rubio, Bush, Kasich and Christie have labored in Trump's shadow, struggling to gain a foothold in this famously mercurial state.
The mercurial leader has been criticized by opponents for acting in an authoritarian way and for showing willingness to circumvent the constitution.
With a president as mercurial as Trump, it was anyone's guess what would happen during his first State of the Union address.
Instead, consider the mercurial way Lana Del Rey created opportunity for contemporary collage artists through the release of her "Love" music video.
He is chairman of OTP Bank, one of the nation's most important financial institutions, and has a reputation for outlasting mercurial leaders.
According to The New York Times, the departure stemmed from strategic differences between the prominent Washington defense attorney and his mercurial client.
Claude remembers Brancusi as mercurial, the kind of character whose genius was often expressed in arbitrary edicts that could never be explained.
"His mercurial jurisprudence replicates and even gives the savor of legitimacy to a closely divided country," Dougherty wrote of the swing justice.
Chinese regulators are "mercurial," and business with the US is "subject to geopolitical crosswinds," The Washington Post noted in its June story.
Such an outcome would put the U.S. into uncharted territory — mercurial leadership that is increasingly isolated and decreasingly trusted around the world.
A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has also bitterly complained about what he sees as European efforts to appease a mercurial U.S. leader.
While a few sympathetic characters emerge, for the most part members of the royal family appear variously insane, opportunistic, petulant and mercurial.
Mr. O'Brien said this mercurial approach can make it hard for people who do profess their loyalty to know where they stand.
And President Trump is famously mercurial, known for changing his mind based on the advice of the last person he spoke to.
The most important: Can the mercurial unrestricted free agent Kyrie Irving be the player to lead the Celtics back to championship contention?
The mercurial midfielder Hakim Ziyech, No. 7, leads Morocco; he quit the team a while back over playing time, only to reconsider.
Her return is all the more gratifying given that a new generation of mercurial singer-songwriters has sprouted up in her absence.
And never forget that we have ample evidence that Trump is hugely mercurial -- prone to fits of rage, frustration and lashing out.
This creates an opportunity to reach out to someone with authority, someone responsible who can assist you in detail-oriented Mercurial work.
Questions about the Browns' discipline have centered around mercurial personalities and foolish penalties, but their run-defense discipline has been glaringly poor.
And Dana Michel presents "Mercurial George," a 55-minute solo that continues her investigation of the fractured and shifting thing called identity.
For moderators struggling to do good work under conditions described as PTSD-inducing, Facebook's mercurial and ever-evolving policies added another stressor.
The winner will replace mercurial, two-term incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who announced last fall that he would not seek re-election.
Perhaps some of the president's mercurial behavior stems from the constant pain he suffers and his use of narcotics to treat it.
"This collection offers a deep textural (as opposed to textual) encounter between two important and mercurial minds," according to Ed Pavlic's review.
The unexpectedly quick personnel change is the latest example of Trump's mercurial nature and his newfound confidence to follow his gut instincts.
Nintendo is a mercurial stock: it has moved more than 5 percent on 17 days in the last six months, Datastream shows.
If Mr. Steyer's focus on impeachment is new, his status as one of the most mercurial figures in Democratic politics is not.
Chuang continued: The chat window was texting before the smartphone was ubiquitous; mercurial Away Messages represented our identities before social media arrived.
Even in "Haze and Fog," imaginative play is less a mode of criticism than it is a consequential result of mercurial change.
Emily, more mercurial, knowing in her cultivated spinster image, and now wearing exclusively white, has become the very thing she dreads: embittered.
Kim's death is seen as a reminder of North Korea's unpredictability and China's inability to control its neighboring country and its mercurial leader.
They form an instant connection, the intensity of which crackles off the screen, in part thanks to Kulig's sultry looks, and mercurial temper.
Given the mercurial state of affairs, the critics in Washington should hold their fire until they have something more concrete to go on.
He even reminded people of the mercurial Apple founder, both in his ability to get things done and in the way he operated.
It's rare to see such a mercurial character—one that does not easily lend herself to easy moral lessons—in any folkloric tradition.
Yet an even bigger concern was, and is, that Turkey's mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could tear up the agreement at any time.
Simply put, not that anything with the mercurial musician was simple, Prince had more hits than most musicians have songs in their catalogs.
"Mercurial," meaning unpredictable or impulsive, is derived from the Roman god Mercury, the god of shopkeepers and thieves, of travelers, and, yes, tricksters.
The notion that we should say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavior is ahistoric and I believe profoundly misguided.
Matters are not helped by the mercurial speakers in both houses, who can up-end the order of the day on a whim.
But with a figure as mercurial as Trump, there's no reason to assume that any pattern of attacks will hold for very long.
It's the perfect environment in which to proliferate misinformation; it's mercurial, confusing, and full of uneducated, overeager traders hoping to strike it rich.
The mercurial nature of P2P lending Those of us interested in marketplace lending have recently observed many pejorative headlines about P2P lending platforms.
This much is clear from a new Time magazine profile on Trump, which focuses on what our nation's mercurial boss does after hours.
Since its release, the moody, mercurial textures of Blonde have given me a similar unquantifiable feeling as listening to the late Arthur Russell.
The mercurial Australian said he was excited by LeBron James's recent switch from Cleveland Cavaliers to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA.
But investors should have expected a move like this from the mercurial U.S. president, given the history of the year-long trade dispute.
Several weeks before handshake-gate with our mercurial commander-in-chief, Souza even alluded to Merkel's support of his work as a photographer.
For a second, it feels like Lucious, even in his bullish, mercurial cruelty, is the only one in the family being totally honest.
Trump is expected to try during the summit to shore up relations, which have been strained by the mercurial Duterte's notorious anti-U.
Q: What has being in the beauty business - which can be rather mercurial and unforgiving - taught you about being a good business person?
Whoever sits beside him at the Cabinet table, the mercurial and often impetuous Trump will remain at the center of America's foreign policy.
To be fair, by inhabiting Simone's most mercurial moments and performing Simone's music herself, Ms. Saldana does give her best performance to date.
Frustrated Senate GOP leaders appeared to throw up their hands heading into the weekend as they await some direction from the mercurial president.
Given Putin's mercurial nature, his letter may very well be a ploy designed to make Russia look like the adult in the room.
She is, without question, one of the most influential people in the White House -- and a survivor of Trump's mercurial whims as well.
But moving a bill that didn't have Trump's support would open up himself and other Republican senators to attacks from the mercurial president.
But with Trump as mercurial as he is, any soothing words from Kudlow should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Q: What are some important qualities for succeeding for so many years in the fashion business, which can be rather mercurial and unforgiving?
It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability.
The orchestra paired Bruckner's Eighth Symphony with the premiere of Conrad Tao's "Everything Must Go," which Anthony Tommasini described as teeming and mercurial.
Still, while dating others, they kept in touch by sharing the grief of his uncle's death, divorcing parents, illness and other mercurial moments.
But the rest of the planet is increasingly refusing to play along, instead seeking alternatives to trade with a suddenly mercurial United States.
He soon met Piero Manzoni, an avant-garde artist three years his junior, whose mercurial temperament was the opposite of Mr. Castellani's reserve.
And it's presided over by a mercurial and minatory chief executive who can't be easy to work for on a number of levels.
The brainchild of Johns Hopkins University professors Steve Hanke and Richard Henry, the catchy calendar is an alternative to the mercurial Gregorian calendar.
Fry's Holmes is sharp-witted and mercurial, though not especially idiosyncratic: quite right, as he is merely being reported by dear old Watson.
A good review of the mercurial Johnson appeared last week in Financial Times, in which he claims to have taught his children Mandarin.
Huawei itself shows that even the long and mercurial arm of American law can do little to hobble the stars of Chinese technology.
They cautioned that with months to go before negotiations could begin, and with the mercurial Mr. Trump at the helm, anything could happen.
It may not get its way with a mercurial, dissembling President, but it is firm, clear and unfazed, its eyes on the prize.
Meanwhile, China clearly wants Trump to be reelected despite his rhetoric and sanctions, because he has proven to be so weak and mercurial.
Thanks in part to the president-elect's predilection for outbursts of fewer than 140 characters, he routinely comes across as petty and mercurial.
Trump's new pick for National Security Adviser, former U.S. chief hostage negotiator Robert O'Brien, has a very different background from the mercurial Bolton.
"He's mercurial, he's unpredictable, he likes showing strength," says Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Until it stations direct on August 19, you will benefit from working through minor Mercurial hiccups with some help from whoever's within reach.
But obstacles still block the way to actually bringing the two mercurial leaders together — let alone to creating the conditions for productive talks.
In the mercurial second movement she eagerly responds to each mood swing in the music, turning in a standout performance of this masterful concerto.
The company's mercurial chairman and CEO, Nick Caporella, had an unusual response when it reported a drop in sales and profit earlier this year.
That doesn't make the mercurial President any easier to work for, as Gardner found out on Wednesday, as he tried to salvage his reputation.
But Trump's "mercurial" temperament during the last election is also giving Republicans, who were taken aback when Trump backed a challenger to then–Rep.
Trump is set to meet Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and will try to shore up relations strained by the mercurial Duterte's notorious anti-U.
The mercurial nature of the Premier League is such that last year's champions Leicester are now just one point away from the bottom three.
The Spaniard, who faced his biggest test so far against mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios, is up against a familiar rival in Portugal's Joao Sousa.
Grace may be the unreliable narrator par excellence but Ms Gadon's nuanced performance brims with precision even while embodying the mercurial nature of truth.
Lieberman is mercurial and he's going to make statements and do things related to the West Bank that will roil the waters in Washington.
Watson was determined to verify that the "intra-Mercurial" planet Vulcan existed, hidden by the sun and waiting to be found during the eclipse.
"The notion that we shouldn't say or do nothing in the face of such mercurial behavioral is a-historic, and I believe, profoundly misguided."
The mercurial Latvian bested Sorana Cirstea 6-4 6-4 in an error-strewn quarter-final that saw both players struggling to hold serve.
Erika and BMG: Jasen Loveland is a mercurial force, he has a very active mind and is a very skilled artist in multiple mediums.
Harrison movingly exteriorizes Tyler's mercurial emotions, shifting between adolescent bravura and childlike woundedness, and later tapping into the sorrow and rage that engulf him.
Taken together, these quotes show what it is like to work for a mercurial boss who is horribly unqualified for the office he holds.
More mercurial is Aline Bernstein (Nicole Kidman), a married theatrical set designer who has adopted Tom as her protégé and appointed herself his muse.
Russian pundits are talking increasingly openly about Mr Trump's personal shortcomings, such as his lack of sophistication in international affairs and his mercurial character.
"The Diamond" has never been short on self-confidence and was more than motivated for his contest against the mercurial Conor McGregor—Duffy's compatriot.
In the real world of selling lemonade, it is even harder to depend on mercurial things like finding a distribution outlet for your product.
He quickly gained a reputation as a mercurial manager with a hands-off style that bordered on neglect, according to current and former employees.
Mr. Kelly has been criticized for failing to change the mercurial, Twitter-reliant president into someone more conventional and willing to adhere to norms.
They enact a plan to send her husband (Amit Rahav) and his mercurial cousin (Jeff Wilbusch) to track her down and force her return.
Her mother, Ms. Brennan, is portrayed as a free spirit who nurtured her daughter's creativity — but could be mercurial, hot-tempered and sometimes neglectful.
Avi Stein, an organist and harpsichordist, said in a phone interview that the irregular rests in 18th-century music also reflected its mercurial nature.
A mercurial personality who could flip from naked neediness to towering rage, Mr. Lewis seemed to contain multitudes, and he explored all of them.
Instead, on a hazy Thursday night, the mercurial Australian played the start of this second-round match in a way that belied his reputation.
But that doesn't mean he's immune from a little presidential pique now and then, revealing the limits of currying favor with a mercurial President.
Nadal lost to Kyrgios last year and later accused the mercurial Australian of lacking respect after he employed an underarm serve during the contest.
When it comes to managing the president's mercurial instincts, some of his foreign allies have tried the bromance approach to get what they want.
I've thought for some time that he is one of our best chroniclers of the rise of a determined, resilient and mercurial American Right.
Tentenko's first solo release outside of Japan is one of the most inventive, replayable, and mercurial pop records I've heard so far this year.
Only Alan Dzagoev, a mercurial playmaker with CSKA Moscow, gives Russia any creativity, but much will depend on the form of goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev.
And our president is such a mercurial blowhard, he could screw it all up again before this column even hits The Times home page.
The president is notoriously mercurial; there are any number of different developments that could cause him to sour on Xi and China more broadly.
Over and over, Drexler confronts us with the mercurial nature of heterosexual relationships, stressing male physicality and its potential for bodily domination of women.
There are also reminders of technology's mercurial nature: the rise and fall of a Napster balloon; buildings emblazoned with Netscape, MySpace, and Silicon Graphics, Inc.
For Quinn Blackness has a mercurial morphology though it is, in the public consciousness, linked to certain persistent notions, such as physical power and brutality.
When the jive-talking, mercurial hero debuted in 1972, he was Marvel's answer to the popularity of early '70s blaxploitation films like Shaft and Superfly.
When mercurial Gemini Kanye West walked into the gilded halls of Trump Tower on December 13, he lit a fire of surprise around the country.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If the exquisitely mercurial art of Audra Wolowiec can be reduced to a single factor, it would be breath.
LaSalle Network founder and CEO Tom Gimbel and CNBC's Tyler Mathisen delve into how companies can recruit and retain the best of a mercurial generation.
Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, who took office eight months ago, has often been described as unconventional, as well as volatile, mercurial, unorthodox and foul-mouthed.
Combine that with Trump's mercurial temper, macho posturing, and habit of insulting foreign leaders, and we have a recipe for more instability and more wars.
Successful deals in the mercurial world of U.S. fashion are rare, and now look even less likely to succeed as sales dip across the board.
The contradictions in Mr. Johnson's attitude to the Roman Empire are bred, perhaps, as much by geography as by his own willful and mercurial character.
No matter what social media marketing companies or online influencers tell you, internet virality is a mercurial animal that knows no coaxing, boosting or strategizing.
And then, just like that, the mercurial Mr. West decided to stage the pop-up show in Los Angeles — and then it was gone. Poof.
It was an inexplicable choice as well as an ironic one, since it may not be enough to save him from the president's mercurial whims.
What perhaps was most striking as they meekly exited Europe was that even the mercurial Argentine appeared drained of his superpowers against a resilient backline.
Fueled by their opposition to the mercurial president, a historic number of female candidates will be on the ballot in November — many of them minorities.
Trump will meet Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila, where he will try to shore up relations strained by the mercurial Duterte's notorious anti-U.
Medvedev, Russia's mercurial 23-year-old breakout star of Flushing Meadows, was until this year an unknown quantity but now looks capable of beating anyone.
Nevertheless, its broad outlines — an uncontrollable, mercurial president and a factionalized White House — were echoed in many news reports throughout Trump's first year in office.
What happens when a region's culinary identity is closely tied to an animal, and that animal is threatened by the mercurial forces of climate change?
Her slippery identity typifies the aim of Cross-Dressing and Drag on Screen: to close the gender gap with layer after layer of mercurial androgyny.
This thermal area is the newest addition to a family of many thousands of geothermal features at Yellowstone that are often mercurial and occasionally hyperactive.
The Icelandic actor Ingvar Sigurdsson deploys mercurial energy in the title role, and the Indian dancer and choreographer Shantala Shivalingappa makes a radiant, delicate Solveig.
Mr. Trump, who desires a measure of chaos at all times, is reveling in the effects of his own mercurial decision-making, the people said.
At its center is Aunt "Hankie," a theatrical and mercurial woman who might be described as the love child of Auntie Mame and Mommie Dearest.
He lasted almost a year and a half in a job under a famously mercurial president, and toward the end was reportedly unhappy in it.
Despite their mercurial moodiness, middle schoolers express more joy in an hour than Mr. Trump has expressed in the four long weeks of his administration.
Mr. Ax deftly navigated the concerto's mercurial quick-cuts in his scintillating and colorful performance, qualities matched by Mr. Gilbert and the impressive Philharmonic players.
For nearly three years, Republicans and Democrats have fought tooth and nail over the deeds and demeanor of the mercurial figure in the Oval Office.
Nick Kyrgios, the mercurial Australian star, offered courtside spectators a running commentary during his first-round match against his countryman John Millman on Wednesday afternoon.
But that threat — and Mr. Trump's mercurial negotiating strategy — has also become an obstacle to the deal's resolution, according to people familiar with the discussions.
To write this paragraph, I looked hard at an envelope: what a mercurial object it is, more like origami than like a sheet of paper.
He lost nine total points on serve, including only three on his second serve, and never faced a break point against Fognini, the mercurial Italian.
Created in 28, when the British-born Mr. Wheeldon was 27, his "Mercurial Manoeuvres" is a young person's "look at everything I can do" dance.
Mr. Moon also faces a mercurial adversary in Mr. Kim, 33, who took power in Pyongyang after the death of his father in late 2011.
Mr. Ruby's gritty pastiche of graffiti techniques and allusions to prison surveillance jump-started his metamorphosis into a mercurial art star of the highest order.
How has he managed to avoid drawing the ire of a notoriously combative and mercurial president and remain in his good graces for so long?
When Trump grafts his moving orations, such as the Polish or Inauguration addresses, with his mercurial nocturnal tweets, he can appear unsettling to his enemies.
Spencer Dinwiddie, a mercurial guard, parlayed a lifeline from the N.B.A.'s developmental league in December 2016 into a $34 million extension two years later.
An anonymous letter sent to the board of directors blamed Ms. Haney, now 245, for the exits and accused her of being "spoiled" and mercurial.
In the past few months, he's overtaken Sessions (who's fallen out of favor with the mercurial president) as the face of the administration's immigration policy.
And Uber, which was once led by a mercurial founder, also offers something else in the post-Travis Kalanick era: no more dual-class shares.
Former National Security Council official DJ Rosenthal, who served in the Obama administration, suggested there might be an upside to Trump's mercurial handling of foreign policy.
The album packs plenty more of Reid's arresting vocals and the mercurial dynamics of its predecessor, though this time pushed to moments that verge on apocalyptic.
If the next years do not teach Britons about the mercurial reality of the special relationship, it is hard to imagine what will. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
In the intervening years, Gadhafi systematically stripped the country of its ability to self govern, installing a cult of personality where his mercurial political predilections prevailed.
Any tariffs on Mexico will face legal challenges and might never even happen in the first place: Trump is nothing if not mercurial on such matters.
The chaos is partly the consequence of President Donald Trump's mercurial temperament, and the fact that he is served by advisers who disagree with each other.
Some see Margot as the one in control, and also as the one to blame for not being more open and clear about her mercurial desires.
But, as Trump's bombastic remarks on Tuesday demonstrated, there are few signs that his presence around Trump has tempered a mercurial and uncensored commander in chief.
Some nations – particularly South Korea, Japan, Poland and perhaps now Britain under Boris Johnson – have moved hard to embrace and win over the mercurial U.S. president.
He seems to believe that our needs are too mercurial, and our compromises too imperfect; every relationship, romantic or otherwise, inevitably spirals toward the same stalemate.
Before Charlie's Angels, Rockwell showed that he was a talented actor in 1999's The Green Mile, in which he played the mercurial "Wild Bill" Wharton.
But Mother Hildegarde warns Claire how mercurial King Louis can be and that to save Jamie she will most likely be forced to sleep with him.
Billy Crudup plays Steve Prefontaine, the mercurial track star who, while preparing for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, died in a car crash in 1975 at 24.
The mercurial Sergio García, still chasing his first major title, also shot an uninspiring 73 and fell into a tie for ninth at two under par.
TikTok is, in short, a microcosm of the internet itself — mercurial, fast-moving, and often utterly incomprehensible to those not well-versed in its inner workings.
With a president as mercurial and unpredictable as Trump, divining meaning in what appears at times to be sheer impulsiveness is hard and perhaps futile work.
Mercurial free-agent addition Nick Fairley still has Pro Bowl talent, but training camp should reveal how engaged and motivated he is to make a difference.
President Trump has made significant efforts this year to engage North Korea's mercurial leader, Kim Jong-un, in hopes of halting the country's nuclear weapons program.
Lighthizer will need to keep a mercurial president from wavering in the face of queasy financial markets, which have suffered their steepest annual decline since 22017.
Mr. O'Neill also suggested that Mr. Mnuchin was in a difficult position in trying to assuage a mercurial boss and could be overcompensating to please him.
Of the two, Lech grew to be the more outgoing, public figure, while Jaroslaw was regarded as brilliant but also mercurial, largely keeping his own counsel.
Between 2009 and 2011 alone, the quartet premiered her ruminative, mercurial "Frayed," her harp quintet "Filigree in Textile," and "Blood Rose," which also featured Ms. Sollek.
The case has riveted Scandinavia, where Mr. Madsen is well known as a quixotic if mercurial innovator, and plunged Ms. Wall's friends and relatives into grief.
He's about as mercurial as a thermometer, so there's no real road map for predicting his actions outside of seeing who has wooed him most recently.
The closest he has come is three French Open semifinals: first in 2014 with the mercurial Ernests Gulbis, and now the past two years with Thiem.
I deluded myself that I could separate the sport from its millionaires and that on a personal level I could achieve mastery over my mercurial disposition.
But if Mr. Trump's original national security team was seen as restraining a mercurial new commander in chief, the president found himself sometimes restraining Mr. Bolton.
There were cries of "Come on, Jordan" and "Let's go, Jordan" as Spieth prepared to forge a détente with the mercurial, 155-yard, par-3 12th.
They also tell CNN they worry the President's mercurial management style -- often expressed through tweets -- may be undermining national security by making military planning increasingly difficult.
On so many issues -- North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela -- President Trump's national security adviser's bellicose views and advice repeatedly clashed with those of his mercurial boss.
"Fear" paints a portrait of a completely dysfunctional White House, with staffers frantically trying to protect the country from the raging emotions of a mercurial President.
"I think it's going to be very tough, to be honest," said Federer, who practised with the mercurial 27-year-old in the off-season in Dubai.
However, in a dramatic about-face that drew international condemnation, the mercurial former coup leader on Friday decried "serious and unacceptable abnormalities" and called for fresh polls.
So that's the top of division: The mercurial, volcanic brilliance of L.A.'s loaded roster, and the predictable excellence of San Francisco's tight-knit band of brothers.
The Iraq war, the financial financial crisis of 2008 and now the election of the mercurial Mr Trump have not been great adverts for the American system.
It's a notable change from the kind of relationship Pelosi had with the insular, mercurial Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid when she last held the speaker's gavel.
Tommy has never been the most stable guy and let's just say his love affair with the mercurial Holly Weaver will lead to some intense story lines.
To prepare for the role, James read her memoirs, which described Churchill's real affection for his staff, but also his mercurial moods (he hated single spaced memos).
And while it's definitely the most popular option right now, competing technologies like Subversion and Mercurial still have their fair share of users, especially in the enterprise.
LIKE ITS mercurial name, which shifts between one imposed by British colonisers and another by its generals, Burma, or Myanmar, is a country that defies easy categorisation.
Artist Jillian Mayer, whose playful work examines humanity's complicated and mercurial relationship with technology, has created Slumpies, a series of sculptures designed to support the texting body.
Wood, ARK Invest's chief whose bull case famously sees Tesla at $4,000 per share in five years, defended Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk's mercurial nature.
Monroe's almost a surrogate son to his mercurial boss, Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer), which doesn't stop Brady from constantly resenting Stahr and especially his creative street cred.
She has been painted as the defiant Gloriana of Spenserian epic, uniting the land in religion and peace, and the mercurial crone lusting after her younger courtiers.
Some Democrats, meanwhile, are warning that the way to confront Trump — a mercurial figure known for lashing out at his adversaries — is to avoid playing his game.
The team will be hoping that the mercurial tradition does not re-emerge on Sunday when it takes on Iceland in the quarterfinals of the European Championships.
The mercurial Drouin, a supremely talented forward who had spent much of the season in the minors, was a forceful presence, contributing a goal and an assist.
Yet skeptics warn that a single adviser will have a tough time reining in the mercurial Bolsonaro, whose embrace of free-market economics runs hot and cold.
Political shifts are notoriously difficult to predict, even when they do not involve the mercurial Mr. Trump, and it is unclear what might happen if he loses.
For many of us, feeding our children is a daily crisis, fraught with financial issues, mercurial palates, behavioral problems and an endless series of bribes and tradeoffs.
Chronicles of the Trump presidency have often described a West Wing that's constantly trying to manage a president's mercurial whims—and harness them to their own advantage.
The kingdom's market management was not helped by a mercurial White House, which threatened to push Iran's oil exports to zero and then granted generous sanctions waivers.
The word "mercurial" applies well to Geminis; as an air sign, they're intellectuals who are quick on their feet, but they're also extremely hard to pin down.
Jaap van Zweden, in his second program as the Philharmonic's new music director, conducted this teeming, mercurial 11-minute piece as a curtain-raiser to the symphony.
There's also the small matter of the Golden State Warriors preparing to work in the mercurial DeMarcus Cousins as they chase a fourth championship in five seasons.
The Kremlin is cautious about his mercurial moods, and Democrats will continue to challenge the president over Russian actions, particularly the election meddling described by Mr. Mueller.
The fear of a mercurial boss, the constant pressure to misdirect — it played out on live TV across his face, a grimace that gave the game away.
Without intelligence in their heads, the lower classes are never more menacing than a rabble, even if they are sometimes sullen, sometimes mercurial, not yet completely predictable.
In May, at a 2150-year retrospective tasting of Cigare, Bonny Doon's mercurial proprietor, Randall Grahm, described it as a Burgundy lover's take on Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
In her studies, Cummings showed that surfperch living in dim or murky waters generally preferred shiny ornaments, while surfperch inhabiting zones of mercurial brightness favored bold colors.
Cerebral but disarmingly earthy, mercurial, self-protective, and intolerant of imperfections in all things, particularly music, he was as complex and uncategorizable as his sui generis music.
While such mercurial action might seem confused or irrational, it can be seen as the market relentlessly hunting for buyers and sellers with conviction about the outlook.
There, it proved the director right: While Ms. Mitchell has poured impressive craft and experience into her reimagining, it is consistently one step behind Woolf's mercurial prose.
The portrait of Trump in the Wolff book is of a deeply mercurial man who seems to distrust everyone around him in some sort of rotating order.
Rachmaninoff, represented here by his mercurial Étude-Tableau in A minor, held his own quite well with all these living composers, thanks to Mr. Tao's subtle performance.
This much is clear to many strategists: Mr. Trump's mercurial tendencies will bring heightened volatility to individual stocks as well as to the securities markets over all.
Others said Pompeo's ability to influence a mercurial and impulsive President -- and push back when he disagrees on a policy issue -- is another open and crucial question.
Trump, on the other hand, is more mercurial, so it is harder to predict how far he will go to wipe out Obama's imprint on the country.
But it is a mercurial business that rewards youth and status above all, and remains one in which new companies face a relatively high rate of failure.
Always impetuous and mercurial, those traits seem to be heightened when Trump feels constrained -- limited in the choices he can make or the people he can trust.
While kowtowing to Trump could raise questions about Saudi leadership, failing to send a clear signal to the mercurial U.S. president could put OPEC in Trump's crosshairs.
Price hangs over the individual market like the sword of Damocles, giving a mercurial president the power to destabilize the exchanges with the stroke of a pen.
Last year, it was because he was playing a friend and mercurial opponent in Nick Kyrgios, who felt awkward winning against a competitor he was close to.
The mercurial soap opera star, however, emphasized that his apology was meant for the public, not the reporter who probed him about his fraught relationship with his son.
The FUTUREHOOD founders' song approaches pNp from a first-person narrative, bringing the extremely complex emotional space of its subject matter to life with mercurial, rapid-fire verses.
That changed on Monday, when Bercow broke from tradition and waded into the bitter international debate about how longtime US allies should deal with the mercurial new president.
For those who have followed Flake closely in the Senate, he's known for this kind of mercurial behavior — and he usually ends up siding with his own party.
Friends and colleagues who saw the film before me warned me of Malek's prosthetic teeth, but on their own they actually seemed the most Mercurial thing about him.
The Hawks have their own issues at point guard due to the mercurial nature of starter Dennis Schroder, but he stepped up with 216 points in Wednesday's triumph.
So too was her attachment and protectiveness toward animals, and maybe even a slight preference for four-legged friends over the more complicated and mercurial two-legged peers.
It seemed like every decision he made—some more mercurial than others—served as fuel for a growing contingent of ruthless Bucks supporters who blamed him for everything.
Easily charming when he wants to be, Jaime is mercurial in the manner of someone so cosseted by wealth that he has never had to rein himself in.
The mercurial midfielder punted the ball into the box where Platt's stunning volley on the turn beat Preud'homme and drove a stake into the heart of Belgian dreams.
The company's growth has been mercurial but it has also come with problems as the company entered China's tech spotlight and became a truly mainstream service in China.
Along with the mercurial winger Andy van der Meyde, Mido and Ibrahimovic formed a roguish friendship group: a trio of prodigious rebels with the world at their feet.
It is quite likely that Cameron's successor will be Boris Johnson, the bombastic, mercurial and sometimes fact-lite former London mayor with his trademark mop of blond hair.
But also present are impressive performances, especially a compellingly mercurial turn by the horror veteran Ms. Carter (a star of Mr. Keating's "Pod" and Lucky McKee's "The Woman").
In the end, however, the greatest challenge to Pompeo's success or failure won't be the leaders of North Korea, Russia, China, Iran and Syria but the mercurial Trump.
The mercurial Trump has largely steered the defense strategy thus far with his own brash public statements, insistence he did nothing wrong and refusal to cooperate with investigations.
Progressives don't like Jefferson, and an increasingly long list of others, because the values of his life were out of sync with their mercurial values of the day.
Trump has never forgiven Sessions for recusing himself, and sources warned the mercurial president could get rid of his attorney general at any time, despite the possible repercussions.
The mercurial Australian huffed and puffed in a miserable first set but eventually found some rhythm to come through a tricky encounter 1-6 6-22 26-24.
Evidence built that Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick would be Indiana's governor, Mike Pence — though some Republicans have warned that their mercurial candidate could still change his mind.
The President is a hugely judgmental man who also happens to be incredibly mercurial; people he loves today may be people he hates -- or at least distrusts -- tomorrow.
"My soul is broken," said the mercurial Maradona, who had led his country to the World Cup title in 1133 and back to the final four years later.
And it's in Trump's handling of that mercurial, nuclear-armed regime that the widest gulf between what Trump says about foreign policy and what he does has emerged.
Why open a new factory that's only economical because of tariffs when the very existence of the tariffs depends on the whims of a mercurial and unpopular president?
There some books—airy, slim and cool, and guilty-sexy—that might be distinguished as "quicksilver" novels, meaning that if they are not exactly shifting, they're somehow mercurial.
Nor has it gotten the speaker on the same page as his mercurial president—Trump has contradicted Ryan on policies like healthcare and outright ignored him on trade.
As skimming and mercurial as its approach is, Lo and Behold is an ode to that kind of thinking, specifically about that thing that is shaping our thinking.
Anyone who has ever been fascinated by the mercurial hues of oil swirling in a puddle, or mesmerized by a mood ring, knows the power of color-shifting.
George Seferis's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
We need from the Democrats sustained interest in resolute enforcement, and from this mercurial president a far more tailored enforcement focus than his AG or his base favors.
The track sees Gallant trading the mercurial, often wrenching vocals of his debut for a more seductive delivery that would feel restrained if it weren't so damn smooth.
On Monday, his advisers said he was leaning toward Mr. Kudlow, but stressed that the mercurial president is hard to predict and could change his mind several times.
Mr. Xi arrived in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, on Thursday for a two-day state visit with Kim Jong-un, the country's mysterious and mercurial leader.
Given the mercurial man behind the trade war, and the chaotic churn of American politics, some executives are holding fast in hopes that it will all go away.
Judging by images of him in painting and sculpture he was a genial, if mercurial, teacher, alternately baby-faced and beaming or stern in a nice-dad way.
The real-life 45th president of the United States has shown himself to be an increasingly arbitrary and mercurial leader who, when under attack, lashes out against immigrants.
Anthony Rizzo, the first baseman who joined the Cubs in 2012, compared Castro to another mercurial free swinger who played for the Yankees and the Cubs: Alfonso Soriano.
In this haunting début novel, two unnamed brothers move from Kansas to New Mexico with their mercurial, charming father in the wake of a divorce and custody battle.
Using the hashtag #PayUpHollywood, assistants working in the entertainment industry have been agitating in recent months for higher wages and more considerate treatment from their sometimes mercurial bosses.
Analysts in Japan said that over the 16 months that Mr. Trump has been in office, Mr. Abe's government has learned how to deal with the mercurial president.
But if you were stoic enough to weather a yield-curve inversion, mercurial trade talks, and weakening Purchasing Managers' Indexes, your portfolio was rewarded with a 29% return.
In this account, it was a mercurial fantasy, rich with fluttering cello bursts, alternately stentorian and whispered sung passages, skittish piano flights, and sliding riffs for electric guitar.
My body was too turbulent a home for a baby, and I knew the addition of mercurial hormones and morning sickness would be more than I could handle.
The Democrats' campaign arms, meanwhile, are flooding supporters' email boxes with messages accusing congressional Republicans of demonstrating a "lack of moral clarity" that has empowered the mercurial Trump.
As The Crown's third season closes, the two sisters—dutiful queen and mercurial princess—talk, one rigid and upright, the other reclined, luxuriating on a wide canopy bed.
Ms. Devos is mercurial yet vulnerable throughout, with enough lucidity to see that Boris (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) has trapped her into the role of the other woman.
Their unlikely friendship helps Conor grapple with the impending loss of his mother and the mercurial nature of life in this touching adaptation of the Patrick Ness novel.
The mercurial Shia LaBeouf is the star of Man Down, about a former Marine named Gabriel Drummer who's searching for his wife (played by Kate Mara) and child.
Chengxi copes with the resulting fight by moving in with Jay (to the displeasure of both adults), drawn to the man's mercurial nature and relationship with his father.
But with advancing age comes clarity of sorts from an unreliable self-chronicler whom this mercurial performer and her observant director, Jonathan Kent, bring brilliantly to the boil.
Several awful things happened in the world's democracies in 2016, and the election of a mercurial and ignorant president injects a troubling degree of uncertainty into international relations.
The mercurial actor, who delivers an impressive performance as the leader of a crew of traveling salespeople in British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's new drama American Honey, is visibly addled.
The SEC then investigated, leading to an initial settlement, which Musk agreed to and then pulled out of, causing the agency to sue the company and its mercurial founder.
But the mercurial former mayor and his legal aides argue that technically, the Philippines never actually joined the ICC, because it was not announced in the country's official gazette.
As the Thunder have become arguably more Westbrook's team than Durant's over the past two seasons, skeptics have fired even more critiques than usual at the mercurial point guard.
If the Saudis and other producers do take steps to limit supply in order to support prices, this will almost certainly spark the ire of the mercurial U.S. president.
And though much will be made of the personal lyrical details, its genre detours and mercurial eclecticism are just as important, reading like a particularly confessional, emotionally unscrewed mixtape.
I doubt the mercurial Trump has the commitment and concentration it would take to implement a fascist dictatorship, nor that the stroppy American public would easily fall into line.
US, Hilaria, a 34-year-old yoga and wellness expert, said that she, and not her actor husband -- who has been known to be mercurial -- is the alpha parent.
What's obvious is that Corker believes Trump is wildly unpredictable and mercurial, lurching between love and hate based on the last thing you said about him on TV. 23.
Hip-hop production is an even more mercurial game than rap itself—teenage sensations emerge overnight, catching stars' ears with FL Studio loops made in 10 minutes after school.
The citizenry would not be subjected to mercurial rantings from the White House in which government policies change within the same day depending upon the number of "likes" received.
They were focused on providing a modicum of stability in the midst of the tempest that is Donald Trump; on mitigating the president's temper, wild instincts, and mercurial moods.
Macomb County is ground zero for that test -- the spiritual home of the mercurial "Reagan Democrats" and a place where dozens of blue precincts flipped to red in 270.
It also may be the most dangerous: A misstep could lead to open conflict with a nuclear-armed dictatorship run by one of the most mercurial leaders on earth.
But in a moment defined by fundamentalist self-certainty on both left and right, One and the Other is an example of a more mercurial meditation on human violence.
While Beto is ideologically mercurial, he was widely perceived as more moderate than the Warren-Sanders wing of the party before dropping out of the race earlier in November.
During passages of this mercurial, mostly subdued piece, the music shifted from sustained, focused and elemental sonorities, to passages of swaying rhythmic figures and collective bursts of fidgety lines.
But leading lawyers in Washington and New York have repeatedly spurned overtures to take over the defense of Mr. Trump, a mercurial client who often ignores his advisers' guidance.
Roosevelt's wooden dialogue does few favors for the talented actor Brian Geraghty, who was so mercurial and menacing as an obsessed Prohibition agent in "Boardwalk" a few years back.
First, however, Mr. Lighthizer will need to keep a mercurial president from wavering in the face of queasy financial markets, which have suffered their steepest annual decline since 20113.
Hyperinflation is a mercurial phenomenon, a rupture that occurs when a government persistently spends (or prints) money that it doesn't have, and the public loses confidence in the process.
And because I stood up for myself, my vision, Team OV, and early investors I am no longer with the Company I started and am labeled 'difficult' and 'mercurial.
Both people familiar with the president's thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, cautioned that Mr. Trump was notoriously mercurial and liked creating drama around important personnel decisions.
He is viewed as a mercurial jurist, having briefly jailed Officer Van Dyke earlier this month and repeatedly threatening to hold Daniel Herbert, the lead defense lawyer, in contempt.
Trump's mercurial, and sometimes vituperative, actions have not only battered his staff's confidence, they are starting to erode something more important: the American citizen's trust in their own institutions.
Mr. Nézet-Séguin boldly plumbed the music for wayward harmonic turns, mercurial shifts and weighty orchestral depths, as in the Dutchman's long, brooding monologue when we first meet him.
The host's decisions were often so mercurial, producers have said, that they would have to go back and edit the episodes to impose some appearance of logic on them.
Watching Mr. Jobs, who was famously mercurial with employees, and getting older has taught him to be careful how hard he comes down on people who work for him.
Perhaps Trump, who is unpredictable and unorthodox himself, may be about the only President who could forge a relationship with the mercurial Kim, and ultimately will make Americans safer.
Developments in the past three years have thrown a spotlight on the mercurial world of K Street's political consultants and lobbyists and their hiring by democratic and authoritarian governments.
The Soul Train Awards featured throwback revues from Dru Hill, Carl Thomas and Brandy, celebrated internet stars like Jay Versace, and were hosted by a chipper, mercurial Ms. Badu.
And she has cast herself as someone who can sway her mercurial boss on everything from Russia sanctions to refugee resettlement to the value of the United Nations itself.
The mercurial quarterback has done more good than bad during his time in Chicago, but his career usually boils down to a montage of casually-tossed interceptions and terrible optics.
Another major destabilizing influence is Trump himself, who looms over the administration as a mercurial figure supercharging controversies with Twitter rockets and still appears obsessed with his own political fortunes.
The mercurial Australian has been sanctioned for a litany of tennis offences, accused of tanking matches and slapped with a heavy fine for a crude remark about a player's girlfriend.
Pushy parents and coaches might also look to the cautionary tale of Nick Kyrgios, a mercurial Australian tennis player who gave up his beloved basketball at the age of 14.
Sadr, a 45-year-old mercurial cleric who presents himself as a man of the people, is backing the ongoing wave of anti-government protests against corruption and economic hardship.
The paintings address her in a literal manner, with a towering portrait of the singer/songwriter that sadly lacks her mercurial qualities and photographs of Winehouse glued onto various canvases.
If Johnson beats the less mercurial Jeremy Hunt, unconventional candidates might therefore stand a better chance of taking over from Carney, whose term finishes at the end of January 2020.
Why it matters: A similar previous U.S.-China trade tussle flipped from confrontation to accommodation, leaving experts and lawmakers wondering what the mercurial Trump administration's endgame with Huawei will be.
But the project goes back as far as the 1970s, when Beatty says he first saw the mercurial aviator/entrepreneur in a hotel lobby and became fascinated by his story.
Indeed Prince was so influential and prolific, and so mercurial as a personality, that he fuses neatly with his myth, making it impossible to tell the truth from the fiction.
Before I sign off, even if you don't take the advice of this mercurial genius, the best of luck on the whole production, no crap, that comes from the heart.
But Saudi anger, shared by the UAE, Jordan and Egypt, is directed at Qatar's mercurial and independent foreign policy, which includes cordial relations with the Islamic republic across the water.
THE breathtaking beauty of the Lake Kivu region, resting between the volcanoes and steep hills of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, is exceeded only by its mercurial temperament.
Some in Trump World argue the problem is most acute on the press and communications team, which has constantly been under fire for struggling to speak for the mercurial president.
Suddenly, she found herself a near-constant presence by Mr. Trump's side, flying in his jet, living rent-free in a Trump-owned apartment and attending to his mercurial moods.
Sure, they aren't for everyone, but as those of us lucky enough to own a cat (or two) know, there's something magical about being loved by a creature so mercurial.
One is that the mercurial American president, who just erupted in fury at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, perceives failure or disrespect from Kim that draws him toward military conflict.
"We can tolerate some degree of unpredictability and mercurial policies on the tactical level — it's worth it," Mr. Frolov, the Russian foreign affairs analyst, wrote in response to written questions.
But in the 20 years since "The Velvet Rope," pop attention spans have shortened, information has multiplied and the state of the art has gotten more intricate and more mercurial.
But nearly all agree that most of the major issues in art of the last half-century were highlighted in one phase or another of Mr. Morris's prolific, mercurial career.
For Republicans nationwide, it's an acid test: side with a mercurial president who demands devotion, or with the attorney general, who insists on probity and the letter of the law.
Himes had a mercurial personality and led a thrilling life that might tempt a biographer to conjure a book in the spirit of its subject, but Jackson avoids this pitfall.
Often mercurial and dark, Trump is using the power of the presidency to share his fear and anxiety with the country, and to stir the same feelings in its citizens.
Woodward's reporting paints a picture of Trump as politically ignorant, mercurial and antagonistic to his staff, who in turn vent rage against him and, at times, undermine his own agenda.
But Barr's allies described a reverse dynamic— Barr was one of the adults in the administration, one of the few people who could deftly manage the mercurial president, they said.
All this, plus Mr. McCarthy must retain favor with the mercurial Mr. Trump, who makes his displeasure with recalcitrant Republican lawmakers known in ways that have cost them their jobs.
But Creutzfeldt-Jakob is mercurial: She had a cousin with the gene mutation who was healthy at 93, but who had watched her daughter and granddaughter die from the disease.
But putting his fate in the hands of a mercurial president would be a risky, if not reckless, course by Mr. Flynn, who faces up to six months in prison.
He has told advisers and friends that he wants to be careful not to become such a regular public critic of Mr. Trump that he alienates the mercurial new president.
While other tech titans like Mr. Jobs and Mr. Gates were known for their sometimes brash and mercurial leadership styles, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin were low-key and cerebral.
Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell, said the president's "mercurial temperament and predilection to undercutting his own negotiating team" had complicated the already challenging task of striking a deal.
Yet she was also the most thrilling to watch, and virtually flawless as she navigated her mercurial part's taxing blend of harsh double stops, screeching high notes and soaring melodies.
The result of that rebirth is Blackpaw, a collaboration with longtime friend and producer George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow, blending stark post-punk minimalism with mercurial neo-electronic melodies.
"The mercurial President Trump has signalled via Twitter this morning that his mindset is shifting ever farther from reaching trade deals," warned Eleanor Creagh, a strategist at Saxo Capital Markets Australia.
While conservatives are concerned by Cohn, they note that Bannon is still part of Trump's mercurial administration and that Cohn could fall out of favor as quickly as he has risen.
Five years later, the bigger, faster, more mercurial Kaepernick is out of work for non-football reasons, and Smith is going into his fifth season as a starter in Kansas City.
"I know that there have been some judging that have been very controversial in the sport of boxing, but I say I bring my own judgings," the mercurial Thurman said Wednesday.
It was vintage Diaz, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's most mercurial star, who made it clear there are a lot of others places he could be besides the octagon on Saturday night.
Last week, the former congressman passed the 400-day mark in one of the toughest jobs in Washington, and his mercurial boss gave him a public vote of confidence (The Hill).
The situation reflects mounting legal and operational risks facing infrastructure companies in Brazil, where the government has for decades proved to be an onerous and sometimes mercurial partner, the people said.
Her newfound psychic abilities let her cut through office maneuvering and appeal straight to the desires of hot potential client Jamal (Shane Paul McGhie) and his mercurial dad-manager (Tracy Morgan).
The Senate majority leader's approach to the mercurial president has been to let Trump decide what he wants and then put varying levels of legislative elbow grease into making that happen.
BEIJING (Reuters) - When they met at U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in April, China's President Xi Jinping found a way to charm the mercurial former real estate mogul.
Hence, 1974's "Young Frankenstein," on which Brooks and Wilder collaborated as screenwriters and which which starred Wilder as the mercurial, yet oddly endearing descendant of Mary Shelley's quintessential mad scientist.
But today America's mercurial foreign policy is weakening that new friendship with Vietnam, and the hatred between the country's right and left has risen to levels not seen for 40 years.
Big personalities help to draw eyeballs: Elon Musk, the mercurial founder of Tesla and SpaceX, got 7m hours of attention in a year in which he was sued for securities fraud.
Those concerns should have been aired at the board level and the company's directors should have exercised their ability to manage the mercurial Musk as his public actions became increasingly unmoored.
His reputation at home as a mercurial novice bulldozing through the intricacies of the Oval Office will make him an intriguing yet potentially toxic ally, vulnerable to exploitation, or worse, misinterpretation.
Still, the "Mad Money" host commended the president's dexterity and said investors should not sell ahead of the May 1 tariff deadline as the mercurial leader could still change his mind.
Trump's mental fitness for the job had come under intense scrutiny after a recently published, controversial book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," portrayed him as childlike and mercurial.
By hammering on the idea that France's "identity" is being challenged at a moment of deep unease over terrorism, the mercurial Mr. Sarkozy may be on to something with the electorate.
In Congress, there is a bipartisan belief, likely reinforced by intelligence briefings on the demise of Khashoggi, that the mercurial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, aka MbS, is not reliable.
Lots of fans find him on YouTube, where he is an unusual sort of celebrity, a stern but mercurial lecturer who often holds forth for hours, mixing polemics with pep talks.
Sometimes called the 'Trump of the East' because of his brash, mercurial style, Duterte has threatened repeatedly to scrap U.S. defense ties, saying he "hates" having foreign soldiers in the Philippines.
And while the successes of both gaming's premier hedgehog and glam metal have been mercurial throughout their lives in popular culture, one thing's for sure—once upon a time, Sonic rocked.
Every minute of every day, Trump debunks that old "science" when he shows that the gossipy, backbiting, scolding, mercurial, overly emotional, shrewish, menopausal one in this race is not the woman.
As an article in The Boston Globe suggests, Mr. Trump's dealings with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, given the two men's "mercurial speech patterns," is a potential minefield of catastrophic miscommunication.
Kim's old-school methods demanded an overwhelming amount of training, but while the easygoing Youman adapted readily to it, the legendarily mercurial Nyjer Morgan lasted only a month with the club.
Individually, his team, like all the others, is a collection of MAAC players—point guards who are too small, shooters who are too mercurial or unlucky, young people who make mistakes.
Raising eyebrows in economic circles, Lawrence H. Summers, the mercurial Treasury secretary for President Bill Clinton, has leveled a barrage of increasingly personal criticism at the current Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
You could liken it to "The Sims," except in that long-running series, you supervise mercurial characters who will throw fits when ignored and even pee on the floor in defiance.
The Silver Lion Grand Jury prize was awarded to Yorgos Lanthimos for "The Favourite," starring Olivia Colman as the mercurial monarch Queen Anne, opposite Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as courtiers.
But the move has not been finalized, in part because of the president's mercurial decision-making process and also because of Mr. Shine's reluctance to walk into a chaotic West Wing.
The transparency that reporters' work fostered put businesses on firmer footing in navigating mercurial markets: some of China's largest conglomerates, like the e-commerce giant Alibaba, were founded in that period.
He will need to employ those traits to manage advising a mercurial Trump who has cycled through several national security advisers, Defense and State secretaries and other national security team members.
His father abandoned the family when Robert was 10, leaving him to deal with a mercurial and emotionally scarred mother, according to "Dinner With Mugabe" (2008), a biography by Heidi Holland.
He will need to employ those traits to manage advising a mercurial Trump who has cycled through several national security advisers, Defense and State secretaries and other national security team members.
In addition to the legal quandary, dealing with Mr. Assange, a mercurial personality who is considered a criminal by some people and a hero by others, is fraught with political complications.
Hired in 22014, Mr. Morris was put in charge of selling Magnum's pictures to magazines, running its offices in New York and Paris, and managing its mercurial and far-flung photographers.
This mercurial, formidable 25-minute piece is thought by some to be overly impetuous and episodic: It can come across in performance like outtakes from recording sessions of the Rachmaninoff concertos.
The man who stood to gain most from the dismissal betrayed nothing through his expression and gentle clapping - a survival tactic honed during five decades of service to the mercurial Mugabe.
Norms are notoriously mercurial and thin protections, but we can do more to educate people and help preserve them, like decreasing the use of internet-connected devices and facial-recognition technology.
It was Parneros, the company said, who initiated litigation against Barnes & Noble, claiming in a 2018 complaint in Manhattan federal court that he was scapegoated by Barnes & Noble's mercurial founder, Leonard Riggio.
It is a wonder how this mercurial, overweight, cigarette-puffing 32-year-old playmaker wound up on the south coast at all, but Fratton Park is a richer place because of it.
The hope of appointing Kelly to manage a fractious White House appears to be that Kelly's military experience and demeanor will "discipline" the factions warring for influence with the famously mercurial president.
Similar to mercurial artists like Sade, Fiona Apple, and Lauryn Hill, the control and intrigue Ocean commands and elicits around his projects has earned him a horde of obsessive, die-hard fans.
And the controls are as mercurial and unpredictable as the beast at the center of the game's plot, with basic actions like gripping onto an object often failing for seemingly no reason.
When the mercurial Suniye Finger (Mary Shultz, a dervish of quicksilver emotion), who has a boyfriend we never meet, proposes moving in, Tony accommodates her, only to find her withholding the rent.
Even before Trump clinched the party's nomination in May, GOP leaders voiced their apprehension about appearing at the convention and potentially hemming too closely to such a mercurial and widely disliked candidate.
A mercurial emirate On the face of it, for Riyadh and friends to place a fellow member of the Gulf Cooperation Council under siege is odd if their real enemy is Iran.
Because truth and fact are such elusive comments for Trump, his staff is continually struggling to serve their mercurial boss while also maintaining credibility with the reporters who cover them every day.
Mr Sarkozy's head-spinning mercurial style, and his tendency to prefer grandiose gestures over policy follow-through, have lost him support among centrists, who see Mr Juppé as a less divisive figure.
Perhaps even more alarmingly, though, the Trump administration has allowed this same kind of incoherence to bleed into the foreign policy realm, where Trump has also touted the merits of being mercurial.
MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Max Verstappen compared himself to Manchester United's mercurial Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Thursday when Formula One rivals questioned the teenager's aggressive driving at last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix.
The free trade agreement with the US will allow Georgia to attract more international investment and strengthen Georgia's position as a significant U.S. partner, helping to stabilize the often mercurial Caucuses region.
Known as the billionaire boîte for its high-profile clientele, Mirko's was much beloved by locals and tycoons alike, and three decades qualifies as an eternity in the mercurial Hamptons restaurant scene.
In his first extended action on "The Walking Dead," Mr. Morgan shifted seamlessly between malevolence and mercurial charm, reveling in the character's overblown mannerisms while keeping him grounded in a calculating intelligence.
And indeed, some on Capitol Hill were clearly unnerved by the administration's belligerent talk of preemptive military action against an autocratic nation ruled by a mercurial, thin-skinned, and unpredictable leader. Sen.
Kremlin officials, speaking in private before the summit, acknowledged that it has been difficult to figure out how best to deal with a U.S. leader who is mercurial and flouts political etiquette.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the lonely and chaotic twilight of his career, mercurial Chicago architect Louis H. Sullivan (19173–21917) was reduced to taking whatever commissions came his way.
Yet it can never have been easy to keep company with a moody, mercurial, compulsive human being, one noted for his prodigious appetites for sex, alcohol and drugs and his lacerating tongue.
Yet it can never have been easy to keep company with a moody, mercurial, compulsive human being, one noted for his prodigious appetites for sex, alcohol and drugs and his lacerating tongue.
The government's star witness, Todd R. Howe, a disgraced Albany lobbyist, described Mr. Cuomo as a mercurial, volatile figure; several witnesses said they understood Mr. Percoco to speak with the governor's authority.
When Chuck responded by divulging a story of emotional abuse from his childhood — in which the lesson from his mercurial father was that all women crave domination — Wendy was horrified, of course.
That the mercurial president is already threatening to reverse course, as the number of domestic cases tops 3303,000, speaks to a more fundamental problem for Americans in this crisis: Trump doesn't care.
Ms. Rowell is his mercurial wife, Kitty Barringer, fresh out of rehab and intent on clawing her way back to the top of divadom as her character — wait for it — Blue Sylla.
They helped acquaint him with the violence-plagued jails of Rikers Island and guided him through his first interactions with the mercurial Norman Seabrook, then the head of the correction officers' union.
His misgivings only deepen when the drunken, mercurial man who greets him (Stephen McHattie) provokes a confrontation that leaves Norval facing more mayhem and mounting gore than his sensitive soul can comprehend.
It's that tendency that has shielded the former member of Congress from Trump's mercurial mood swings, swaying in the wind where Bolton has borne the brunt of them and wound up shattered.
The characters and specific storylines rotate, but the theme -- staffers pitted against each other yo-yoed in and out of favor by the mercurial boss in the Oval Office -- stays the same.
The mercurial hip-hop dancer Raphael Xavier brings his pared-down "Point of Interest," and Ragamala Dance Company explores the textures of night in "Nocturne," drawing on lineages of classical Indian dance.
Johnson is a mercurial political figure who has a record of being socially liberal while Mayor of London but economically Conservative since re-entering parliament and becoming the leader of his party.
For example, it dispatched a faculty member to the first semiconductor company in the Valley, founded by the mercurial William Shockley, co-inventor of the silicon transistor and a Palo Alto native.
The mercurial president is eager to tout major accomplishments on health care — and undercut a traditional political strength for Democrats — but has little patience for the glacial pace of making federal policy.
Instead, I believe Robson and Safechuck because, for me, the weight of evidence indicates that Jackson, that mercurial, troubled, talent-kissed child of the gods, could also have been a child molester.
Few knew if they were valued by a mercurial president, and the actions of many top officials could be explained — if not forgiven — mostly by their will to survive in the administration.
To get these mercurial voters, Chris D'Aniello of Axiom Strategies advises clients not to try to run to the middle but to bring the middle to them by focusing conversations around issues.
Fidel played the mercurial, genius director spewing bold visions, while Raúl was the producer backstage, making sure that the microphone worked, that the actors were paid and that everyone followed the script.
I get hypervigilant on a packed subway car and my manic, mercurial co-workers can sometimes startle me, prompting a time-out in a secluded spot until I'm sure I'm breathing again.
At a time when much of the world's focus is on North Korea's mercurial leadership and nuclear capabilities, this studio's work is quietly making its way beyond the borders of that hermit kingdom.
Nike's introduction of the blue-chrome and gold Mercurial – sported by Brazilian legend Ronaldo at the 1998 World Cup – played a significant role in changing perceptions, both among ordinary football people and designers.
"What is important is for one to be able to discern between what is noise and what is fact," he told Reuters in an interview when asked about concerns about Duterte's mercurial style.
An erratic and mercurial man in possession of football's best pair of spectacles, he is so hip that he even has a recognised tactical system named after him in the form of Bielsista.
In one act, a mercurial and generous Jeff Bezos would bestow a city with riches beyond their imagination: an all-American tech company, tens of thousands of jobs, and $5 billion in investments.
Given that Mr Alter is 83 years old, this is understandable, but it further illustrates how mercurial language can be, and how even the most careful translations can miss the mark on occasion.
Selling merchandise and subscriptions through other platforms isn't just a way for creators to make more money, it's also a way for creators to insulate themselves from YouTube's ever-mercurial rules and algorithms.
Though, what is undeniable is that both men put on one hell of a show, despite the cynical, mercurial and money-centric roots of this fight coming to fruition in the first place.
Most importantly, the Europeans want assurances that if side agreements are reached, the United States will stay in the deal, a hard commitment for American officials to make given Mr. Trump's mercurial nature.
For 90 minutes they sat in Trump's triplex atop his eponymous tower—the first head of government with the determination and the mettle to earn an audience with the mercurial new American leader.
Like Kelly, though, the next chief of staff will be pressed to manage White House infighting, a mercurial President and the free-flowing discourse between Trump and his kitchen cabinet of outside advisers.
You set the intensity of a training session and determine managerial philosophies, such as the tone and the language you want to use when suggesting that a mercurial superstar fire his meddlesome agent.
Thus for Moscow, Trump — besides being mercurial and thin-skinned — represents a departure from current U.S. policy and will assemble a team with which the Russians will now have to develop new relations.
Given Trump's mercurial behavior, its not clear how far the administration will go against China, especially when it comes to the possibility of the trade war spiraling out of control with additional tariffs.
Her colleagues often compare her relationship with the mercurial boss to the one he had with Hope Hicks, his onetime communications director who during her tenure acted as Trump's closest White House confidante.
In Syria the Russian-backed Basher al-Assad regime is credibly charged with using sarin gas against its own civilians, while the mercurial North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues his saber rattling.
Last week's ouster of its mercurial CEO was the culmination of a series of scandals that included allegedly harassing employees, mistreating drivers, spying on customers, playing rough with competitors and deceiving authorities worldwide.
BFF's with limits While Graham has heaped unexpected praise on Trump at times, he's still approaching the mercurial President with caution and realizes there are limits to the kill-him-with-kindness approach.
Decades later he would hire the gifted, mercurial Paul Liebrandt as chef at Corton, which received two stars from Michelin and three from The New York Times but brought Mr. Nieporent no peace.
Moreover, Trump's snap decision to accept Kim's invitation to meet underscores the risk of a mercurial president leaping into actions — which is one of the reasons we got into the mess in Iraq.
The question now is whether fans — who have weathered years of diminishing returns from Mr. Corgan's mercurial antics, broken promises and odd decisions — will allow themselves to trust the band enough to care.
The ballot was billed as a referendum on the mercurial president, with the focus on his bid to boost his influence over an upper house vital to him delivering on his reform agenda.
Mr. Pompeo's handling of these myriad challenges has gotten mixed reviews in an administration dominated by a mercurial president whose blistering tweets overshadow, and often undermine, what the State Department seeks to accomplish.
Ms. Haspel has done a masterful job of building a relationship with a mercurial customer with a consistent record of disdain toward senior women and an apparent skepticism regarding the C.I.A.'s intelligence.
Rice and his descendants sketch out scenarios as nothing more than a container — and a leaky one at that — holding the constant shuffling and re-shuffling antics that ensue in their mercurial works.
Gates adds another layer by demonstrating how hard it is to fix the meaning of such a mercurial phrase, which takes on a different meaning for each viewer based on their cultural knowledge.
But in President Trump, his mercurial partner in the White House, the speaker deftly found a foil to deflect some of the anger that had felled the man he succeeded, John A. Boehner.
That is largely because of the personal involvement of Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim, both mercurial figures with a gift for self-promotion and a hunger to be actors on the world stage.
Mr. Trump is supposed to make his first presidential trip to Beijing in November, and Mr. Xi will certainly want to demonstrate that he can work with and manage the mercurial American president.
With a poetic libretto and mercurial score, its ideas shift in and out of focus, slippery and only suggested: the ephemerality of inspiration; the stifling frustration of doubt; the ecstasy of cultivating beauty.
Nest co-founder Tony Fadell stepped down in June 2016, after the company failed to quickly refresh its product line, and the former Apple executive faced criticism over an alleged mercurial management style.
But given the Trump administration's record of mercurial policymaking, trade hostilities could again flare up at the president's whim, undermining the certainty businesses need before making decisions about their investments and supply chains.
Johnson is a mercurial politician who has repeatedly shifted his position on the EU over the years and may well opt to maintain a closer relationship with the EU than he has promised.
Others cautioned that the mercurial Mr. Trump could easily change his mind if offended, and that Mr. Abe had made himself vulnerable by seeming too eager to align himself with the American president.
And they're counting on his United Nations envoy, Nikki R. Haley, to be a coolheaded adviser, even as they wonder whether she, his not-so-long-ago critic, has her mercurial boss's ear.
At one point, when the mercurial Marcello Magni, playing Ariel, concluded a reply to Prospero with the words "were I human," he lingered for a second on "human," with a hint of regret.
And Trump is almost supernaturally mercurial, meaning that what he says and does on a Wednesday shouldn't be expected to tell us anything about what he will say or do on a Friday.
Ryan is aware that such votes could do damage to the electoral prospects of some of his members, prospects already darkened by a presumptive presidential nominee of mercurial temperament and stratospheric unfavorable ratings.
OTTAWA — Just over a year after he became prime minister with promises of inclusion, optimism and internationalism, Justin Trudeau unexpectedly finds himself dealing with a mercurial American president who largely rejects those values.
Mohamed led a mercurial band of players there — including his opposite number in Sunday's final, America's Miguel Herrera — who brought an unprecedented splash of colour to both their dusty barrio and Mexican football.
Now they face a tougher test: Killing the latest Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and persuading the mercurial president to work with them to shore up shaky health insurance markets.
But concerns about sexual harassment at "60 Minutes" have emerged over the years, dating back to the era before Mr. Fager succeeded the show's mercurial creator, Don Hewitt, as executive producer in 2004.
The problem: Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka, the Lakers' nascent front-office power duo, signed a slew of nonshooters and, shall we say, mercurial personalities who, as a group, prompted instant second-guessing.
Dramas roiling the president-elect's transition process in recent days show him to be the same, mercurial, sometimes thin-skinned, gregarious, truth-challenged, media taunting and unpredictable figure who won a stunning election upset.
In 2016, knock-it-long players – who in any other era would have been sporting thick, black, steel-toe-capped boots – wear lilac-coloured Nike Mercurial Superfly Pros with a protruding built-in sock.
The announcement puts back on track a high-risk summit that could be a legacy-defining moment for the American leader, who has matched his unconventional deal-making style with the mercurial Kim government.
There was no clear explanation for the about-face by the mercurial Duterte, who has cultivated warm ties with China, ostensibly to attract loans and investments and lessen Manila's dependence on the United States.
Almost alone among Europe's leaders, Mr. Macron has struck an apparent rapport with the mercurial American president, who has taken pride in testing, even alienating, some of the United States' oldest and truest allies.
"This is not going to happen tomorrow, and given the mercurial nature of the U.S. administration, the whole issue could well disappear before anything really happens," said Marshall Gittler, chief strategist at ACLS Global.
Nadal later raised a furrowed eyebrow, accused Kyrgios of "lacking respect for the public, the opponent and toward himself", adding "there is a reason" why the mercurial Australian is struggling to sustain his form.
Given his mercurial personality, is it possible, many South Koreans wonder, that Mr Trump might resort to some sort of pre-emptive strike despite the horrendous loss of life that would almost certainly entail?
Or even when they do know, Trump himself changes it the next day, so very, very high-level people end up being wrong about stuff all the time because Trump himself is so mercurial.
Whether you plan to lay low until the messenger planet goes direct later this month or have already gotten embroiled in some Mercurial drama, these tips just might save you a headache or three.
Optimistic senior officials in Asia hope that this is a careful double-act, in which mercurial Mr Trump and steady Mr Mattis pressure and persuade the North Koreans to step back from the brink.
ABOUT THE GIANTS (2-3): Manning is having trouble developing a connection with mercurial receiver Odell Beckham Jr., who caught his first touchdown pass last week but has only 27 receptions despite 51 targets.
Last month, the mercurial leader Kim Jong Un abruptly canceled the Beijing leg of the tour of his all-girl rock and roll band Moranbong; this month he's promising to up his Armageddon game.
At the behest of Rebekah Mercer, the mercurial daughter of New York billionaire Bob Mercer, Trump installed Bannon and Conway, at that point already a Trump pollster, at the top of his campaign organization.
Putin would need to keep a close eye on Donald Trump himself to see if his mercurial and contradictory positions on various issues during the campaign were ever reflected in his approach to Russia.
The mercurial former mayor had initially welcomed last month's announcement by the ICC of its preliminary examination into a complaint filed by a Philippine lawyer accusing Duterte and top officials of crimes against humanity.
While there are other drivers of commodity prices next year, the mercurial U.S. president looms large over the sector, and the actions of his administration will either amplify or partially nullify the established trends.
Sacramento lost eight of its last 95 games preceding the All-Star break as Karl continues to have troubles reaching players such as All-Star post DeMarcus Cousins and mercurial point guard Rajon Rondo.
Conventional political wisdom has it that Mr. Trump's mercurial debate performance, while pleasing to his core supporters, did little to persuade other demographics, like women and college-educated whites, whose support he desperately needs.
Self-aggrandizing oratory, the mercurial backstabbing of loyalists, callous disregard for anyone else's well-being: The party's bedrock principles would bring a tear to my eye if I had the capacity to feel tenderness.
Part of the answer to that question could be shaped by a mercurial trial judge's take-no-prisoners approach to the first major bribery case of a sitting US senator in nearly a decade.
Khachanov is not far behind at 48 while the mercurial Medvedev, who stunned three-times grand slam champion Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon last year, has been slightly later developing and is ranked at 84.
So began my first cruise — a weeklong stint on the 22-passenger Safari Quest as it made its way around the moody, mercurial Pacific Northwest islands off the coast of British Columbia last fall.
Ms. Ireland moves between Darja's mercurial moods with a fluidity that makes us sense the calculations behind them, the ever-present sense that she is continually forced to make compromises to keep herself afloat.
The intimate friendship that forms between Philip and Farinelli forms the core of the play, with Philip by turns caressing and covetous, and Farinelli half admiring and half fearful of his patron's mercurial temper.
Mattis also seems better at handling Trump's mercurial nature; according to the New York Times, Tillerson frequently annoyed the president in meetings by (among other things) saying, "It's your deal," whenever Trump overruled him.
But any qualms he might have fallen from Trump's mercurial favor since then were quickly quelled as they both delivered full doses of mutual adoration at a press conference a couple of hours later.
But it is mostly a portrait of Mr. Lydon, now 62 and still a witty, mercurial figure fascinated by commercial fame and constantly wrestling with the challenge of making viable art within that framework.
Confined for much of the time to an uncomfortable chair in Giacometti's dilapidated studio, hair slicked back, attired in an immaculate coat and tie, Lord seems the stoic opposite of his unkempt, mercurial host.
"The president's nature is so mercurial that it would be wrong for Russia to become an instrument in Trump's unpredictable statements," said Dmitri Trenin, the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research institution.
There have been mistakes; by his own admission, Soros erred in championing Mikheil Saakashvili, the mercurial former president of Georgia, and also became too directly involved in the country's politics in the early 2000s.
In addition to Neymar, Butler enjoys a budding friendship with the mercurial Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba — whom he met over FaceTime in July after a chance introduction to Pogba's mother, Yeo, in Senegal.
All of Robert Caro's books on L.B.J. Because of Caro's almost maniacal research, the books are lush with fine details about events, about the people in Johnson's life and about the mercurial man himself.
But in the end, Trump decided to impose tariffs, a stance that the often mercurial President has consistently held in the face of hard evidence that such protectionist actions end up costing American jobs.
And his populist appeal and resilience to controversy paved his way to the White House, stunning Democrats who wrongly believed the mercurial reality TV star would be a drag on Republicans down the ballot.
For example, NATO members were probably forewarned that they really really should meet their promised 2 percent obligations of defense spending before a mercurial trash-talking Trump went ballistic — and did who knows what?
The mercurial swingman, who was a part of Pacers' teams that went to the conference finals in 2013 and 2014, is combining with Aaron Brooks to form a potent backcourt on the second unit.
No one who's seen a New Yorker chew out a stranger on the street would be surprised by that last one, but fewer of us associate the state of barbecue and rodeos with mercurial tempers.
There has never been any concerted effort to use their leverage to hold Trump accountable, or try to mitigate the consequences of a venal and mercurial man holding the most powerful position in the world.
That hegemony was finally breached in November 2015, when Tyson Fury, a mercurial 28-year-old Briton who styles himself as the "Gypsy King", unexpectedly beat the younger Mr Klitschko on points by unanimous decision.
The mercurial Volquez is coming off a solid outing Friday night in a 3-2 loss at Milwaukee, giving up only three hits and a run over six innings with two walks and four strikeouts.
Biggest weakness: The mercurial Australian is a ticking time bomb, struggling for consistency on the biggest stage, and has been accused of lacking the stomach for a fight when things are not going his way.
As practitioners of the medium begin to adopt some of the mercurial standards of contemporary art, works like Verstraeten's risk falling into an in-between space, becoming neither good comics nor interesting works of art.
"At some point I think people have to start wondering would this company be better off with a calmer managerial presence in charge as opposed to a genius leader but a mercurial leader," Ingrassia said.
Finally, it's worth following the mercurial story surrounding that Trump Tower meeting in 2016 between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and top Trump campaign officials, including Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Then again, that's a pretty good description of the entirely foreseeable nightmare that the network braved by jolting "Roseanne" back to life -- and getting back into business with its mercurial namesake -- in the first place.
The very qualities the mercurial big-city Mr. Sarkozy made fun of, according to Mr. Buisson — Mr. Fillon's rural origins and ponderousness, "his legendary caution and his silences" — earned him favor with the crowd here.
When we next see Lyra Belacqua, she's 12, a ward of the college, dreaming of being an explorer and begging the mercurial Asriel to take her on one of his scientific (and possibly heretical) expeditions.
Facing a divided Republican conference and a mercurial president of his party, they say, he has little choice but to curb some of his own instincts, work behind the scenes and steer Mr. Trump gently.
They are also treading carefully to avoid antagonizing a mercurial figure whose mind they still hope to change as they have in previous cases where he drifted from the party line, such as on immigration.
For aides, it was a recognition that they were working for a mercurial, truth-bending chief executive who often asked them to do things that crossed ethical or even legal lines, then denied it later.
Republicans know from experience that the president is mercurial, and they do not want to vote for a bill that the Republican base will denounce as amnesty, only to watch the president change his mind.
Tehran's leaders probably thought that their limited use of violence would lead Trump, who in the past was highly cautious about a confrontation with Iran, to step back — a clear misjudgment of a mercurial leader.
None offer easy or simple solutions, and some carry real risks of missteps or miscalculation on the part of a mercurial President not known for carefully thinking through the costs and consequences of his actions.
They describe internal processes that are so dysfunctional, so mercurial, so back-stabbing and destructive that other nations and their leaders -- whether ally or enemy -- will see in them more proof of an unreliable partner.
Still a mercurial and easily offended provocateur capable of head-spinning gyrations in policy and politics, Mr. Trump nonetheless at times has adapted his approach to both the job and the momentous challenges it entails.
He has survived an epically rocky first year, during which he had to adjust to public sector life while serving under a mercurial boss who, at times, publicly undermined his diplomatic efforts on social media.
However, risk in aligning with Mr. West, the son of a Black Panther father and a mother who taught at a historically black university, is that his ideological allegiances have typically been mercurial, and even apolitical.
They're fun to watch, score as many as the concede, and with a player like Payet running things in the middle they've found an heir to the mercurial talents of Paolo Di Canio and Carlos Tevez.
One statistical indicator should indeed keep Italian fans up at night: only one Azzurri member nominated since 2007—the mercurial Mario Balotelli, who has not represented his country since 03—is under the age of 30.
Unlike the more mercurial president, to be sure, Mr Pompeo seems in many ways a reliable foreign-policy realist: pessimistic about alliances and supportive of free trade, albeit with a hawkish enthusiasm for using military power.
Germany's match against Italy is a bona fide headliner, but the game in Marseille looks set to be a far more capricious and mercurial affair, and nobody can be sure quite what it will serve up.
But the knotty infrastructure of the Beggars' imprint seemed lacking of the elasticity and reflex best-suited to the intensely mercurial Pink—an artist who doesn't shapeshift so much as he inhabits multiple psychological aspects concurrently.
Democrats performed particularly well in the suburbs of Eastern states such as Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where vulnerable GOP incumbents struggled to insulate themselves from the midterm backlash against the party of the mercurial president.
Despite having recieved many awards for his science fiction and fantasy stories, his reputation suffered, particularly toward the end of his life, from his mercurial and sometimes violent temper, which led to transgressive and criminal behavior.
Kelly's defenders assert he has handled a near-impossible job with stoicism, seeking to manage the mercurial moods of the president as well as the vicious rivalries that rumble on among his aides and broader circle.
The president's knowledge of world affairs is so limited, his temperament so mercurial, that it's difficult to know how long he'll stick to any particular policy stance or what will cause him to change his mind.
The mercurial leader, who says he must be tough to protect the people from the scourge of drugs, has criticised rights groups by saying they were "trivialising" his campaign and unjustly blaming the authorities for bloodshed.
But he surpassed expectations, managing to lead the economy into a period of modest and relatively steady expansion, presiding over a winning Olympic bid, and skilfully finessing mercurial relationships with both Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump.
For the American military, the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies, focusing more on hostages is a way to show an often mercurial commander in chief that the government is responding to the priorities he has set.
A former Soviet apparatchik, Mr. Mirziyoyev served for 13 years as prime minister to the mercurial and heavy-handed Mr. Karimov, who in his final years had taken to imprisoning even members of his own family.
And even though Rajon Rondo is only on a one-year deal, all four of his All-Star seasons came under Rivers, who was able to establish a comfortably rocky relationship with the mercurial point guard.
The progress made by Sara Howard, John Moore, and the Isaacson brothers in the absence of their mercurial mentor is a surprise only in terms of the centrality Kreizler was given by the story before now.
In "The Favourite," his new film, two women vie for the affections of an impressionable, mercurial Queen Anne, well aware that losing her favor would put an end to their ambitions of power, status, even survival.
Book News LONDON — A mercurial American president is about to launch a nuclear war against North Korea after exchanging childish taunts with its dictator, prompting two senior aides to hatch a plot to assassinate the president.
In contrast with the prosecution's depiction of him as a mercurial and controlling figure, the defense sought to show Mr. Hernandez, who sat stoically through the trial, as docile and suggestible, especially after hours of interrogation.
Though he has his charms, Trump has been an often rude, mercurial and poorly informed character whom many voters do not trust with the keys to the Oval Office and the codes to the nuclear arsenal.
Then he will test his theory that he can force the mercurial North Korea to surrender its nuclear arsenal through "maximum pressure" coupled with threats of military action followed by high-stakes one-on-one diplomacy.
And whether the irascible and tough-minded John Bolton will keep his new seat -- or is a bright, shiny but temporary fix in the mind and mood swings of a mercurial President -- remains to be seen.
She's a little bit mercurial, in that you could be waiting several days or a week to get an audience, but then when she invites you in, she could be talking to you for five hours.
Pompeo forged a close bond with the mercurial President through the daily intelligence briefings, which the former Republican congressman from Kansas delivers in person three to four times a week, White House officials have told CNN.
Federer's third-round opponent could be the entertaining, if mercurial, Nick Kyrgios, the 22th-seeded Australian who had 27 aces and 26 double-faults while defeating Radu Albot 26-113, 211-21, 210-4, 6-2.
LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray saw off the mercurial challenge of Australian Nick Kyrgios with little fuss on Monday, before just as smoothly playing down growing expectations that a second Wimbledon title is his for the taking.
Like other executives in the go-go days of the music industry, he led a fast lifestyle of his own, and even in a business of strong personalities he stood out for his brusque, mercurial manner.
CreditCreditElizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times For nearly two decades, Ryan Adams, one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of his generation, has been heralded as a mercurial creative genius and a respected industry tastemaker.
For all we know of Hernandez -- and it's a lot -- his brother's book reveals a number of new stories, details and quotes of the mercurial football player, including new stories of his abuse and sexual molestation.
Even as other Trump allies moved in and out of the president's inner circle, Hicks, who never did TV interviews and largely stayed out of the public eye, managed to stay in the mercurial president's good graces.
Although our initial assumption was that Chelsea is a wizard and planet whisperer, it turns out she just knows how to ride the Mercurial wave — with patience, a clear goal in mind, and open lines of communication.
Either past personal failings come to light, or petty self-dealing scandals emerge while in office, or they suffer a sudden decline in the appraisal of a mercurial boss who likes a good firing now and again.
He's not kept up with much of Napalm Death's post-Bullen output, although that is no reflection on its quality because there is no band that his "mercurial" tastes would allow him to follow for thirty years.
On top of the new rules, Fantasy Flight Games announced that another of its LCGs Warhammer 40k: Conquest, had been given the axe when the business relationship between Fantasy Flight and the ever mercurial Games Workshop ended.
Before the show begins, I find myself sitting through a staff pep talk in which the chef paces up and down the floor, switching from wisecracks to furious rebukes with a mercurial speed that borders on manic.
" Notoriously mercurial, Stefansson swung during a thirty-minute conversation from quoting T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to expressing fear for how much he takes after his father, whom he called "a nasty bastard.
At the same time, Kudlow's long history of (often failed) prognostications has perhaps given him an ability to shift with the winds, which could be an invaluable asset in a White House helmed by a mercurial president.
Based on the jittery reactions and hushed tones of the Pence associates I spoke with for this story, they are often walking on eggshells, worrying that something might be perceived as a slight to his mercurial boss.
" Carlson underscored some notable aspects of the piece, which included the host paraphrasing the author's portrayal of the president as an "unpredictable and mercurial boss who is light on policy detail and given to say outlandish things.
Abe has sought to build a strong personal relationship with the mercurial Trump, visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and inviting the president and first lady for a state visit earlier this year.
The blood isn't a surprise visit from mercurial Mother Nature, but from a battle wound that its protagonist Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) knowingly risks—making her braver than any boy for attempting the feat in the first place.
Instead, Mr. Gillum's fate will depend on how well his aspirational vision plays in the nation's largest, most mercurial battleground — a place of such cultural and economic diversity that it's truly more like five states in one.
With Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron visiting Donald Trump this week, much of the commentary has focused on how wildly different the staid German chancellor and the globally minded French president are from the mercurial American president.
Kim Kyong Hui and her husband were once a power couple that formed a kind of regency in the political world of the North behind its young and mercurial leader, who succeeded his father in December 2011.
Some of that same blitzing energy was heard in "Bloom," by Mayu Hirano, an academy attendee — a sharply orchestrated work that reveled in punchy rhythmic elements and gradually massaged mercurial, knotty piano chords into a memorable progression.
But the Baltic states remain on edge: Mr. Trump demonstrated a mercurial streak during the campaign, and they are the most at risk if he should change his mind again and decide to back away from NATO.
WASHINGTON — As crazy as it seems — though in this world, that's a high bar — the mercurial president accused of racist comments and the bombastic rapper accused of supporting him have long seemed to enjoy each other's company.
The object of our affection is the collection's sterling silver link bracelet, rendered in the sturdy mercurial metal with a hidden clasp designed to blend in with the rest of the bulbous links for a seamless appearance.
Thousands of small shareholders in Carige have signed up to attend a meeting on Friday in an attempt to push through a last-ditch rescue plan that could be sunk by the Italian bank's mercurial top investor.
Still, it was always difficult with "Roseanne" to completely separate its mercurial star from her character, and similarly, efforts to explain her absence can't help but evoke thoughts of the off-screen drama that triggered her exit.
Coach Herve Renard felt he could not assure the mercurial Ajax midfielder of a starting berth in his line-up for the Nations Cup and preferred not to have such a strong personality brooding on the bench.
Reckless and mercurial, a bully when he wants to feel his own strength, he luxuriates in the perks of the office he's grabbed for himself: the throne, the golden crown, the money he is milking from it.
Some independent observers suggest that Trump's mercurial approach is a problem in and of itself, since it makes it more difficult for Republican candidates to predict what the news agenda will look like on any given day.
Trump, who is known to respond well to flattery, has recounted praise from O'Brien in tweets and in conversations, suggesting that the new national security adviser also knows how to handle the President and his mercurial moods.
Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is having quite a moment as an actress (she stars in her other series, "Fleabag") and creative force, "Killing Eve" features some genuinely shocking moments, thanks largely to Villanelle's mercurial nature.
Marks and Atkinson managed to clean up that mess, which was no small feat, and now they are taking a calculated risk by handing the keys of the franchise to one of the league's more mercurial stars.
But beneath the surface there were fears that regional power Tehran, which before the vote said it would never let Sadr govern, would sabotage the mercurial cleric and set the stage for a showdown that could turn bloody.
However, I have always thought there was a Gemini element to her nature and appearance, and in the early afternoon this mercurial sign was rising, providing a perfect mirror image of her husband, William, who has Sagittarius rising.
The document prepared by the Democratic staff of the Veterans' Affairs Committee paints a picture of a medical office that was casual with the prescribing and distribution of drugs but terrorized by a mercurial boss, quick to anger.
Many believe that Trump, who is prone to mercurial rants and bullying, lacks the temperament for high office, and he isn't above bashing detractors on Twitter, a prospect that the more guarded Wall Street money managers find appalling.
While there are many parables about her mercurial ways—according to legend, she once killed the friend of her sister Hiʻiaka for taking too long to run an errand—the goddess never had it out for greedy tourists.
Saudi Arabia would like to curb the influence of Iran in the Middle East, while at the same time pursuing the often incompatible goals of keeping the mercurial U.S. president on sides while maintaining relatively strong crude prices.
A former Jesuit priest who defended Richard Nixon during the low point of Watergate, he became famous as the bombastic, mercurial news show host who quickly jumped from one topic to the next as he badgered his colleagues.
The mercurial Kyrgios put on a show for the sold-out crowd, fist bumping with fans during the first set, smashing his racket in the second and mixing in tweeners, underhand serves and slick no-look volleys throughout.
Both are exiled from family: Franckline from her parents and siblings in Haiti; Lore, parentless, from her chosen tribe in New York — the father of her child and her mercurial best friend, both of whom have betrayed her.
Photo courtesy Friends of Friends Mark Nieto has been making his way around LA's undergrond for a minute now, offering up experimental and electronic sounds over the mercurial airwaves at KXLU, as well as on the dance floor.
The mercurial Jay-Jay Okocha popped up with a beautiful individual effort just before half-time, leaving Bolton with a two-point cushion over their East London rivals once the Hammers' season had sputtered to its disastrous end.
Mr. Meadows, a retiring Republican congressman from North Carolina and one of President Trump's most ardent defenders, becomes the latest chief of staff for a mercurial president who dispatched the previous three after they fell out of favor.
This new reality is less about everyone transforming into their own brand or even becoming an independent contractor at the whims of a mercurial gig economy—it will be the very basis for life, or at least livelihood.
Mr. Mattis had repeatedly told friends and aides over recent months that he viewed his responsibility to protect the United States' 1980 million active-duty troops as worth the concessions necessary as defense secretary to a mercurial president.
I'd barely known my mother, and my dad, while I'd adored him, had been the worst kind of mercurial charmer — full of promises and charisma and too damaged by alcohol and trauma to see anything through to completion.
But the context provided by the New York Times journalists Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear in their exquisitely reported "Border Wars" reveals the shattering horror of the moment, the mercurial unreliability and instability of the president.
And the mercurial Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallstrom) has broken into his apartment with news that he is to be named the new chief executive of E Corp, potentially giving away the secret of their alliance to anyone listening.
This is both a survival tactic designed to navigate the ever-changing tides of a mercurial entertainment industry and perhaps also a defense mechanism: better not to get too attached to a project that doesn't get picked up.
Both Meg Stuart, in "An Evening of Solo Works" (four pieces from the last two decades), and the Canadian choreographer Dana Michel, the star of her own "Mercurial George," offered poetic portraits of the self unmoored from others.
Both players were both helped by Jameis Winston, who topped the NFL with 5,109 passing yards, and hurt by the mercurial QB's league-leading 30 interceptions, and a possible change at QB this offseason would bear monitoring. 20.
The mercurial reality-television-star-turned-politician's relentless and sustained assault on the most loyal of his cabinet choices, Sessions, stunned conservatives and now has them questioning how long they can "go along to get along" with Trump.
Justice has been a bit mercurial: Opposing major consolidation in mobile and broadband (AT&T/T-Mobile, Sprint/T-Mobile, Comcast-Time Warner Cable), but allowing Charter's acquisitions of TWC and Bright House and Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal.
At a Wednesday rally at the Javits Center in New York City, the Democratic presidential candidate came out against tipped wages, which force many service workers to rely on the whims of mercurial customers to eke out a living.
Looking for Alaska is based on the novel of the same name by Green; it's a beloved YA novel about a kid named Miles (Plummer) who enrolls in boarding school, where he meets a mercurial woman named Alaska (Froseth).
Nor could anyone have imagined that the mercurial starlet who at 18 tied the knot with a TV director nearly twice her age – the first of four marriages – would end up devotedly married to a retired Army drill sergeant.
North Korea's Kim is less constrained by his government institutions than is Trump, but we do not yet fully know how effectively America's governance culture and institutions can moderate the dangerous, destabilizing, and mercurial impulses of the US President.
The mercurial Drogon deposited Dany in Dothraki parts unknown at the end of Season 5, and while most of us were probably glad to see her finally leave Meereen, the circumstances don't seem much better wherever she is now.
Yovanovitch's testimony, along with top advisor to the Secretary of State, Michael McKinley, reveal in alarming detail how top State Department officials scrambled to accommodate Trump's mercurial positions on Ukraine, and handle the intrusions of Giuliani and his associates.
Duterte - sometimes described 'Trump of the East' because of his brash and mercurial style - had said on Wednesday that he would tell the U.S. president to "lay off" if he raised the issue of human rights when they met.
Anderson captures that with the loving, highly detailed looks at the garments that Reynolds designs and Johnny Greenwood's lush, florid musical score, which swells to crescendos and just as abruptly falls silent, reflecting the protagonist's mercurial moods and melancholy.
The nuclear missile crisis now involves another mercurial dictator who hates America, North Korea's Kim Jong Un. The third in the line of the Kim despots has accelerated North Korea's missile program, developing missiles that could reach American territory.
But the precipitous way in which Mr. Trump agreed to the invitation, and the fact that this mercurial president, ill informed and ill prepared on complex national security issues, will be across the table from Mr. Kim is worrisome.
Another part of it is that Mattis seems better at handling Trump's mercurial nature; according to the New York Times, Tillerson frequently annoyed the president in meetings by (among other things) saying "It's your deal" whenever Trump overruled him.
But, in the post-match news conference, the mercurial 24-year-old caused another stir after being asked about the $113,000 fine which followed his second-round defeat by Russia's Karen Khachanov at the Cincinnati Masters earlier this month.
Billy Connors, a pitching coach and executive for the Yankees known for honing the reliever Mariano Rivera's often unhittable cut fastball and for being a close adviser to George M. Steinbrenner, the team's mercurial owner, died on June 5003.
Violin Concerto and Ligeti's Violin Concerto; Augustin Hadelich, violin; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (Warner Classics) For this album, the brilliant Mr. Hadelich pairs Brahms's inescapable Violin Concerto in D with Ligeti's mercurial and ingenious 1992 concerto.
A Navy SEAL turned corporate executive, Mr. Harward cited family and financial considerations for refusing the national security job, but privately he was reported to be worried about the effect of a mercurial president on national security decision making.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that he will meet with Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in May or early June, setting a timeline for the historic summit between the American president and the mercurial North Korean strongman.
Earlier, the mercurial Kyrgios pulled out from the opening singles in Brisbane as a precaution because of a bad back, paving the way for hometown favorite John Millman to take down Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 6-2.
And therein lies one of the inherent tensions with a for-profit meditation company: In the rush to expand a business, it's easy to misrepresent, oversell or exaggerate the benefits of a product, especially something as mercurial as mindfulness.
It was founded in 1848 by a mercurial Vermont-based preacher named John Humphrey Noyes, whose followers pooled their resources and bought a hundred and sixty acres of land on the Oneida Reserve, named for a local Indian tribe.
Mr. Dunn used to tell the story as one about the mercurial, possibly vindictive Merce, until the writer Nancy Dalva suggested that Mr. Dunn think of the episode not as Cunningham upstaging him, but as Cunningham dancing with him.
But the tune's real star is Burden's mercurial voice, which you may recognize from her backup work with Warpaint's Jennylee, sliding between 60s pop decadence and Aladdin Sane fever dream before it all blows up into a grunge bridge.

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