Over the years he has been called brilliant, idealistic, dedicated and passionate, but also volatile, self-righteous, ruthless, vicious and dangerous.
Ray Winstone stars as the volatile, self-pitying Raymond, Kathy Burke, who won the best actress award at Cannes, is his put-upon wife, Valerie.
Mr. LaBeouf was replaced in "Orphans" during the second week of rehearsals last month after he and Mr. Sullivan, the Tony Award-winning veteran director, butted heads over Mr. LaBeouf's acting choices and his behavior in the rehearsal room, which four members of the production team described as volatile and self-centered.
"Unlike self-esteem, self-acceptance is inherently unconditional and therefore may better buffer individuals' self-worth against inevitable failures and hence serve as a less volatile alternative to self-esteem for promoting well-being," the researchers wrote in the study.
The area is a volatile mosaic of self-governing groups that range from those with left-wing pretensions to outright criminals.
But as a dramatic character Wigand is stale bread when compared to the volatile Whitacre, whose self-inflicted fall features multiple suicide attempts and, ultimately, prison.
It will be a long time before a Wotan comes along who can convey the internal torment of this volatile, despairing and self-destructive god, who never, as Mr. Morris plays him, loses his stiff-backed, godly dignity.
The director Henry Bean's modesty was evident when he accepted the Grand Jury Prize for Drama for "The Believer," a tense and involving story of a volatile, bright and self-hating young Jew caught up in the pretzel logic of membership in a fascist movement, when he mentioned what led him and his team to submit their film to Sundance.
It's a volatile remark about self-determination in the music business (though not Prince's most barbed -- he once protested his contract at Warner Music by writing "Slave" on his face).
Moreover, by showing that plants receiving the volatile emission cues from self-cuttings were damaged less than plants that were signalled by non-self-cuttings.
Either way, her moods are volatile — now she's self-assured, now she's in shock.
