When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. From LearnThat.org. [George Bernard Shaw]
Anyone notice the increase in ferocity of these things this year?. From Wordnik.com. [Salmon Fishery: Another Ecosystem on its Last Gasp « Colleen Anderson] Reference
And ferocity is required of Ree, since she is the only one who can keep disaster from her family's door. From Wordnik.com. ['Boxing Gym': A Bout With Human Nature] Reference
He's worked on his blocking -- he said he had to develop some "ferocity" -- and he's quick enough to line up as a slot receiver. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
The ferocity was the equivalent of having buckets of water thrown over your head. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
I also recall the ferocity of the werewolf, and his insatiable hatred for humankind while in that form. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
My head wants to thank you for all of your pain, because after all this work, your ferocity will be my mane. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to “Lox”] Reference
If Bob can recall the ferocity that made him a star then … I'm really not convincing anyone with this am I?. From Wordnik.com. [Ringside Report] Reference
They should have been out there fighting with this kind of ferocity and passion from the very beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Reid Rips Washington Post Editors As "War Cheerleaders" Unconcerned About Facts] Reference
If not, may you be abducted forthwith and probed with the kind of ferocity usually only found in wild beasts. From Wordnik.com. [Take a bite out of burnt irony] Reference
But you get hit with the same kind of ferocity, the same kind of—sometimes pathetic, sometimes intimidating manner. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
No doubt the natural senseless ferocity which is the basis of such. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
They were now more precious than ever, and a kind of ferocity had come into my desire to possess them. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspern Papers] Reference
He watched with a kind of ferocity until the passing of the staff made him duck back into the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fleece] Reference
To speak generally, I should say that the headgear then supplies them with a kind of ferocity of indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women, and Boats] Reference
But what marked his own contributions to these affairs was the intellectual "ferocity," in the weight and content of his criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
On the other, he seems to think the "ferocity" of attacks on the book struck some sort of nerve and perhaps revealed a "larger truth?". From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
She began to whisper with a kind of ferocity, "Don't cry!. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
A particular kind of ferocity in this which was new to her. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
She chews gum with the angry ferocity of an ex-smoker. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRIME OF HELEN MIRREN] Reference
Streep, smartly, doesn't try to emulate Angela Lansbury's steely, imperious ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW, SEIZING THE THRONE] Reference
Friends said Thomas was taken aback by the ferocity of the "presidential level" scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [A Crisis Of Leadership] Reference
Once nominal allies of the Bosnians, the Croats have recently turned on them with ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [What If We Do Nothing?] Reference
But in both parts he fills the screen with a quiet ferocity that's chilling, and thrilling. From Wordnik.com. [Babs’s Stepson Also Rises] Reference
We announce with great ferocity and at once what the rules of the household have always been. From Wordnik.com. [Love And Marriage] Reference
One of the great Method actors, De Niro hurls himself into timidity with his accustomed ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [A Groundhog Has His Day] Reference
Half a world away, people who understood the ferocity of Islamic extremism could see the coming storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To September 11] Reference
He combines charm with a sudden ferocity that can startle even the most polished minister or civil servant. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Prince] Reference
"But today we live in a troubling new stage of this struggle that differs in scope and ferocity from previous ones.". From Wordnik.com. [Public Or Private?] Reference
His ferocity in combat won him an honorific stripe: "Captain Bull," rebel comrades in the Liberian outback called him. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Soldiers] Reference
Perhaps they sense that they are being judged with the ferocity of those accustomed to being judged harshly themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Leather, Impure Thoughts] Reference
He's working for KeyserSoze, a Hungarian crime lord whose homicidal ferocity has made him a figure of terrifying legend. From Wordnik.com. [Crooks, Creeps And Cons] Reference
(Once you get over the distractions of her fame and beauty, Jolie plays her with admirable restraint and slow-burning ferocity.). From Wordnik.com. [The Horror Of It All] Reference
But, he says, "I've never encountered anything else that would approximate the ferocity and scale of what happened" in Jedwabne. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting A Massacre] Reference
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