The cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness — the woman who said she was raped — was hardly as volatile because the defense lawyers were deliberately gentle.
The current band sounds hardly less volatile than the group on the rehearsal tapes and live bootlegs that are all the original Rocket From the Tombs left behind.
Mr. Brand, though hardly calm, is volatile in a cool, pseudo-self-aware, pointlessly articulate way, whereas Mr. Hill resembles one of those round cartoon bombs with a lighted fuse on top.
The situation of Muslims in France, while volatile, is hardly as desperate as Hussey suggests.
It could hardly meet in more volatile circumstances.The leading presidential contenders are now jockeying for position, exploiting deep divisions in almost every major party.
In the mid-fifties, he bounced from label to label, producing remarkably volatile recordings; hardly thirty, he was developing a later style, with rich and strange harmonizations taking the place of his lightning right-hand runs.
Caught between these two forces, it is hardly surprising that markets are volatile.
At his lowest point, Burns says, he robbed local drug dealers and committed violent crimes, even though he was hardly the most sadistic or volatile member of the crew he ran with.
Added to this, it hardly helped that Shaye was a volatile figure at the best of times, frequently clashing with his directors.
