The Belzbergs' mercurial style and their 70 percent holding of First City's common stock has caused some analysts to drop First City from their rosters.

Evatt adopted a "mercurial" style of leadership.

Some say Ms. Eggleston's problems stem from her mercurial style, which former and current staffers, as well numerous social service providers, describe as often compellingly insistent but sometimes needlessly inflammatory.

But the most important influence on him was Dinanath Mangeshkar, and Vasantrao was the sole true inheritor of Dinanath's mercurial style of singing.

It played here with suppleness, sophistication and a fine sense of the composer's mercurial style.

This was a controversial choice but an intriguing one; it's hard to guess how Keaton, with his mercurial comic style, will play the hitherto-stolid character of the Dark Knight.

Mixing all of these elements, Tricky created "a mercurial style of dance music that immediately finds it own fast feet."

Indeed, many missions have been surprised by what some view as Mr. Boutros-Ghali's imperious and mercurial style.

And in general, Mr. Machover's mercurial style seemed better suited to the fast-paced first act than to the static second.

Laura Davies overcame nervousness, an untimely rain delay and her own mercurial style today to win the McDonald's Championship.