At a town meeting in Saugerties, N.Y., site of the '94 festival, residents worry in advance about violence, rape and guns, all the volatile realities of the 90's.
Henry often seems absurdly findable for someone who's supposed to be hiding from the law, while Rhoda's own sense of safety or danger more frequently reflects the demands of the book's next plot twist than the realities of the volatile world she inhabits.
Israeli politics increasingly take place in the yawning gap between nice-sounding rhetoric and what is perceived to be a chaotic and volatile regional reality — always too chaotic and too volatile for meaningful negotiations to take place.
Encountering a volatile American reality that defies every political or philosophical attempt to define and control it, the Invisible Man comes to realize that his African American folk and cultural heritage, embodied in a series of black antagonists and enigmatic mentors, represents some of the most valuable wisdom he needs in order to discover his role and responsibilities in modern America.
But the numbers are far more volatile than reality because beliefs and hopes are inherently ephemeral.
But most dangerous of all is the collision between a volatile world, a leader unable to perceive external reality, and the often unbearable pressures of the presidency.
A subjective belief like confidence is far "more volatile than the reality on which it is based," John Allen Paulos has said.
In hindsight, it may have been smarter to hold on to it, but that's the harsh reality of the volatile stock market for you.
Then, coverage of the concert itself juxtaposes fabulous renditions of Stones tunes with the emerging reality of a volatile situation just off-stage.
The audience gets to be a fly on the wall of her acting workshop, where she refuses to sugarcoat the realities of her volatile industry while offering constructive advice to her aspiring students.
