And our gunners mercurially loosed their rounds on the bunker complex.

Oh, well; there is always that wonderful orchestra, mercurially conducted here by Marco Armiliato.

Mr. Chen turned mercurially and leaped with ardor.

Then she shifted moods again, mercurially.

Their moods seemed to shift mercurially.

She conveys a mercurially eruptive spirit that makes Pauline mysterious and utterly captivating.

Cisco, whose fortunes rose and fell mercurially with the Internet bubble, is acquiring companies at a markedly slower pace.

Her expression mercurially alters to sadness.

Mr. Edwards leaped mercurially.

Tuppence's spirits rose mercurially.

He is mercurially skittish as the bell-bottomed tar in Red Peppers executing jaunty scissor-like leaps.

It seemed to have been meticulously rehearsed, with the instruments precisely blended and mercurially responsive to Gergiev's tweaks of tempo and mood.

In both literal and soaringly figurative terms, "The Blood Knot" - a stunningly apt title - travels mercurially between the specific and the universal.

The Obliques reveal it as a mercurially shifting, gently malicious narrative, whose creepy opening chromatics are eventually drawn out to near-Minimalist dimensions.

In some artists, it is true that the face can seem a mirror of the soul: Rubinstein's expressions shifted mercurially as he played, Rachmaninoff's face was a mask.

There are encounters with backwoods oddballs, some sinister, some redemptive; episodes of cruelty stared at squarely, never shied from; humor mixed mercurially with horror.

Mr. Boggs, who appears especially responsive to the stylistic demands of contemporary choreographers, bounded mercurially through his pas de deux with Dana Stackpole.

Instead was an ocean of elementary particles, as close together as quantum mechanics allowed, mercurially interchanging natures with each other, at densities which men could measure but never conceive.

And then, his mood appeared to mercurially change again as he leaned back to the center of the table, taking care to move his cup and saucer delicately to the side.

Stephanie Tooman and Mr. Grimes passed mercurially through states of affection and belligerence in "Dialogue," to the accompaniment of electronic music by Mark Ballora.

A result is often a repeat of NBC's fiasco with Tea Leoni in "The Naked Truth": a mercurially charming star jammed uncomfortably into a jerry-rigged idea.

Then, mercurially as he had begun, he turned to the woman on his right, the curvaceous Helmsman who drove her Gantheisser to second place behind Valentin in the previous year's race.

The mercurially talented Ms. Watts had to endure an unfair share of humiliation on her road from obscurity, including stinkers like "Tank Girl" and a host of similarly forgettable fare.