ferocity

Officials in London always knew that such a dramatic shift in policy towards Israel-Palestine was going to elicit a hostile response, but seemed taken aback by the speed and ferocity of Israel's reaction.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The ferocity waxes and wanes in the works that follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In fact, they responded with the sudden ferocity of a Zinédine Zidane head butt to the chest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Anybody who disagrees with his notion of how war is to be fought, which is with incredible and relatively unrestrained ferocity, they’re also suspect.”

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

There was a look of mingled ferocity and stupidity about him.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Whitman relished these energies; these ferocities in our beings. 

From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2015

Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a small mews cottage in London's arty Chelsea, Osborne lives with his wife, Actress Ure, and spews out his ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robespierre identified his "Supreme Being" with nature, of whose ferocities the poor Girondins soon had tragical evidence.*

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway