Hume was tireless, his ponderous public style betraying a quicksilver ability to analyse the issues.
My sisters and cousins were married at 14! I have wasted three years and I will waste no more!" Having lost a role in The Opposite Sex (1956) to Joan Collins, Stewart left MGM to take on a two-picture deal with Universal, who changed her hair colour to quicksilver blonde.
Falstaff's miraculous music, written when Verdi was in his 80s, is lighter, defter, more quicksilver and far less lugubrious than any of Wagner's music-dramas.
There are some tedious passages, but Mr Chaudhuri is capable of producing that quicksilver compound of recognition and surprise, which is, of course, what so often distinguishes art from stage directions.Unlike Mr Mishra, Mr Chaudhuri allows us to be eavesdroppers.
The revolt of this class, he thinks, could be the defining characteristic of the election, counting more even than the rise of the (also mostly white, but mostly more affluent) tea-party movement.White working-class voters are the quicksilver of American politics: they are hard to catch and hard to hold.
Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae score highly in freshness and charm as Perdita and Florizel, and as a young shepherdess Beatriz Stix-Brunell is quicksilver.
In private his quicksilver manner can charm colleagues or just as quickly destroy them.
Correction to this articleTHE miracles of nature are everywhere: on landing, a beetle folds its wings like an origami master; a lotus leaf sheds muddy water as if it were quicksilver; a spider spins a web to entrap her prey, but somehow evades entrapment herself.
He moves like quicksilver from one intriguing subject to the next, but you get the uncanny sense that he is speaking to what interests you.Mr Anwar thinks he will soon need international support.
Quicksilver will reappear in Joss Whedon's "The Avengers 2", due out next year.Bryan Singer, director of two previous X-Men films, has done a clever thing: he has managed not to take himself or the whole time-travel minefield too seriously, yet has taken full advantage of the unusually high calibre of his cast.
Various vertical furnaces have been used to extract quicksilver since the earliest known crude furnaces were used at the Almadén Mine in Spain in the 12th century.
