My father was a very volatile man.
"My life is very volatile, man," Mr. Carl said.
And then there's that mysterious and volatile man with the sinister glare on the loose.
On paper he seems the most one-dimensional of the three main characters, but Mr. Folsgaard reveals the tortured, volatile man-child behind the buffoon.
Pistorius's trial exposed the athlete's darker side, offering glimpses of a dangerously volatile man with a penchant for guns, women and fast cars.
There in the late 1970s he created the impish Pee-wee Herman, a volatile man-child descended from the likes of Peter Pan and Willy Wonka, and imbued with Mr. Reubens's own love of toys and kitsch.
On Thursday, as a stunned nation grappled with its deadliest terrorist attack since 1995, a portrait emerged of a disturbed and volatile man who was known to domestic intelligence, having been put on a watch list several years ago.
(This happened to Shecky Greene, who emerges in the biography as a far more interesting and volatile man than one could have ever imagined, and, weirdly, to Jackie Mason, who had shots fired at him, apparently for dissing the Chairman).
Mr. Arafat himself is far from popular with his fellow Arab leaders, who refer to him in private as a volatile man who has a tendency to choose the right stand but at the wrong time.
