ferocity
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The ferocity waxes and wanes in the works that follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And out of nowhere, Seehorn gives me a taste of Carol, growling the words, “Can you just get it?” with such ferocity that I’m almost physically blown back in my chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Blackrock added that Slattery played "with ferocity and grace, but without ego or theatre".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The ferocity of his command made me jump.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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
No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships.
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
Would Boone be able to curb their ferocities?
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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