Mercurial Definition

Mercurial Sentence Examples

• Even this did not tame the impostors mercurial temperament.

• The disciplined philosopher, who had devoted himself to the task of comprehending the organism of the state, had no patience with feebler or more mercurial minds who recklessly laid hands on established ordinances, and set them aside where they contravened humanitarian sentiments.

• They can be very mercurial, one minute docile the next skittish.

• Apart from the effects of varying precipitation and evaporation the atmosphere affects sea-level also by its varying pressure, the difference in level of the sea-surface from this cause between two given points being thirteen times as great as the difference between the corresponding readings of the mercurial barometer.

• Erv had worked with John previously, and seemed the only person prepared to ride the waves of John's mercurial temperament.