6 June 2007

• Desultory: Lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful.
• The desultory, deflated mood that pervades the film is also its main satirical point. (A.O. Scott)
• Discussion was, therefore, desultory and unfocused. (Abby Henson) 

• Quicksilver: Unpredictable; mercurial.
• Yet in the past decade or so a handful of psychologists have argued that the quicksilver elements of personal narrative belong in any three-dimensional picture of personality. And a burst of new findings are now helping them make the case. (Benedict Carey)