Example Sentences

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At Carnegie Hall on Thursday, they fared better in the large-format sentiment of the final two movements compared with the ever-shifting terrain of the first two, which require the virtuosity of making mercuriality sound organic.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

It’s all there, from the start: her verve and her mercuriality, her talent and lack of discipline, her charismatic rebelliousness..

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2020

Ms. Faust seems thoroughly at home in an early-music style that favors intimacy and mercuriality over monumentality.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2016

But he added that he’d always fancied himself mercurial, and mercuriality is hard to come by when you’re playing the same character for 10 years straight.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

Cooking Issues is marked by a stop-and-start mercuriality: the co-authors find a subject that appeals to them, unleash a fusillade of experimentation and eventually release their findings, at whatever length they feel appropriate.

From Time • Sep. 22, 2010