quicksilver
Example Sentences
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All would be lost, however, without Mays’ quicksilver brilliance — the way he can shift from savage irony to vindictive rage to godless despair in the space of a line.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
But one challenge can make the whole exercise feel like quicksilver.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
Simpson’s trial coincided with the internet becoming an established phenomenon, which would decisively upend the already shrinking world of hard Gutenberg print and lean into the ephemeral, quicksilver phantoms of a digital web.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
A series of quicksilver phases was capped with Steven Luatua and Tumua Manu's deft hands putting Nigel Ah Wong into the corner.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023
I pressed my forehead against the mirror’s cold surface, poised my fingers over it, feeling as if any moment I’d sink through the pane as though it were a pool of quicksilver.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
