Mr. Clinton supplied the volatile words that set events in motion, the famous 1992 campaign pledge to "end welfare as we know it".
They had a secure enough friendship to squabble like teenagers over the last slice of pizza, then forget the volatile words and resume the relationship.
High conflict individuals are prone to blaming others in a very intense way, using volatile words and accusations, often rapid-fire.
It should be remembered that bourgeois was a volatile word in the 60s, frequently an insult.
But "negotiate" is a volatile word in some circles, because talking itself is seen as a surrender, even if it may be the best way to secure a dictator's surrender, with the lowest humanitarian toll.
At Stevenson, from South Africa, Meschac Gaba shows an array of children's clothes, all embroidered with volatile French words: Kalachnikov.
Also in 1871, at the Polytechnic, he performed three more sketches, The Puddleton Penny Readings, Theatricals at Thespis Lodge and The Silver Wedding (including what would be one of his most popular songs, "I am so Volatile", with words by his father).
This could happen because the word "volatile" is highly reasonable in modifying the word "device" in this context.
Over the long run, goes the theory, equities will always produce higher returns than safer assets such as government bonds and cash because they are riskier (more volatile, in other words) and because shareholders benefit from economic growth whereas bondholders do not.
Defining your life by volatile antitheism in other words, clinging to something you don't believe in isn't just annoying, it's actually pretty backward, and, in some cases, culturally malignant.
Although Mr. Isaacson is not analytical about his subject's volatile personality (the word "obnoxious" figures in the book frequently), he raises the question of whether feelings of abandonment in childhood made him fanatically controlling and manipulative as an adult.
