Sentence examples for volatile force from inspiring English sources

And Rebecca Warner, small and doll-like in blue, is a volatile force as she pivots to face the audience.

Nationalism is a volatile force, and it would be easy for protests to expand into criticism of the state.

This time, though, Gates lobbied on his old study partner's behalf; Ballmer, he argued, was no longer the volatile force who brought out Windows but a more circumspect executive with a tremendous understanding of the business's totality.

But the fact that this is a nuclear sub, powered by a glowing, volatile force that no one on board can quite understand or control, gives the malfunctions an extra dimension of eeriness as well as of danger.

The problem is that public and institutional opinion in China an increasingly volatile force as the country undergoes painful social and economic change could propel him to adopt a tougher stance than common sense would dictate in order to ensure he maintains his influence in the years ahead.

By all accounts the creative (and volatile) force behind a show in which broad sketch comedy and Nelson Riddle orchestrations put a prime-time sheen on antiwar fervor and youthful righteousness, Mr. Smothers, now 71, had declined to list his name on the 1969 Emmy ballot that nominated the "Comedy Hour" writing staff, worried about hurting the team's chances.

Spike Lee has chronicled the volatile forces that can explode the calm of a New York summer.

A simple device, used in many notable works of art: the deployment of great and volatile forces within a very tight structure.

WASHINGTON — This year's campaign for president has provided an extended test of attitudes toward race and gender, two powerful and volatile forces in politics.

Candidates and parties who become the vehicles of angry outsiders, as Mitt Romney is now, don't really have control of their own campaigns anymore; to a large extent, they are the instruments of volatile forces beyond their own reckoning.

These new attacks on diplomatic outposts highlight the continuing uncertainties of the region's evolving relationship with the United States, a result of the volatile forces unleashed in the so-called Arab Spring, which began early last year.