ferocity
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Djokovic’s strokes lack the ferocity of his prime, which is no surprise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The ferocity waxes and wanes in the works that follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Blackrock added that Slattery played "with ferocity and grace, but without ego or theatre".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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
He had lost weight, though he looked stronger, with a lean and stringy muscular ferocity.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The intensity and power of that terrible genius would have had their attraction, but the minute ferocities of Hogarth’s ruthless irony would certainly have revolted him.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
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