ferocity

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

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

“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

Of all the beasts brought from far-off countries to please the crowds with their ferocity, the tiger was one of the most formidable.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never had more intentions—what do I say?—more ferocities; I am sitting in my boat and my oars rhythmically creak.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James