Despite his relative youth, the 78-year-old police chief is said to suffer from severe diabetes, wobbly knees and a famously mercurial temperament.
The fabled women of France, the quickwitted, mercurial, exciting girls who made a man's heart quicken when he thought of the flashing streets of Paris and the South, all seemed to have escaped Christian.
Harvey Cox calls it “diverse, volatile and mercurial”.
She has been a steady and successful finance minister, no mean feat with a boss as mercurial as Nicolas Sarkozy.
He was a mercurial, volatile man who could be very charming and indulgent, and quite bright [when] sober, and could be a bitch on wheels when he'd had too much to drink.
In the wake of Mara's funeral, Luke turned his attentions to Jacen and his mercurial motives.
Always remember that weather markets are mercurial, extreme in price fluctuations, and very difficult to master. Forecasts of weather beyond a few days are not reliable.
One is a hard-working pragmatist, the other a mercurial idealist.
She has a mercurial turn of conversation.
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Always remember that weather markets are mercurial, extreme in price fluctuations, and very difficult to master.
Whenever you hear the term "Mercury retrograde," it is a signal that conditions around you are in flux, moving in a sudden, fast, mercurial way.
Next to the hyperactive, mercurial Mr Sarkozy, however, his bid for the title of “normal president” could carry a certain appeal.
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