Sentence examples for bead of mercury from inspiring English sources

A fact is surely a fact, but what constitutes an error can be as hard to pin down as a bead of mercury.

Often the discussion got so slippery that trying to take notes felt like chasing a bead of mercury around the room.

My self, if anything, is like an inner bead of mercury, unstable, rolling around without boundaries.

"When we tried to address our opiate problem in a piecemeal type of fashion, it became very much like a bead of mercury you try to cleave it off, and the bead of mercury just scurries into other locations, towards other drugs," Virani said.

Exposures resulting from other uses, such as infrequent use of a small bead of mercury, could be well below currently recognized risk levels.

It broke, spilling beads of mercury.

Her words are like beads of mercury: they don't run together.

But when the inspectors returned a week later, they saw scattered beads of mercury.

As a result, even the most experimental of Chinese artists tended to draw tightly together like so many stray beads of mercury.

The firm's investigators said they soon determined that the beads of mercury had been in the house only a few days and that the house had never been equipped with a mercury-filled gas regulator.

What is illuminated is the hot, fetid world of real fashion -- where ideas run like beads of mercury down the page, and which is either off-putting or enticing, depending on your tastes.