ferocity

“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

The ferocity of the Lakers answer rattled Houston such that the Rockets were hit with two technical fouls on unbridled anger from Jae’Sean Tate and coach Ime Udoka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

City's cheers would have been heard all the way from west London - and the ferocity with which Guardiola, his players and the travelling fans celebrated showed how important a victory this was.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

As Linda, she exudes a tightly coiled ferocity in sharp contrast to the fog of despair in which Willy seems to move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The Marshalls have been active about the courts since the late forties, defending their good names with a most expensive 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

No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships.

From Time Magazine Archive

The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Occasionally a tender heart went back to Paris to record its sense of the necessity of some amelioration of these colonial ferocities; but the words of humanity were still spoken in the interest of slavery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various