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With the antic eruptiveness of his stories and their self-undercutting elusiveness, Tarantino flaunts a narrative playfulness in “The Hateful Eight” that exceeds any he has displayed since “Pulp Fiction.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2016

Mild-mannered commanding officers sometimes amaze their subordinates by most unlooked for and unwelcome eruptiveness of speech when they feel that an unwarrantable liberty has been taken.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard

There is tragedy in Bismarck's soul, in its volcanic eruptiveness and its conflicts.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno