fieriness

Example Sentences

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She’s done that partly by diluting some of her rhetoric and fieriness.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

Yet if Ali wore his fieriness like a badge of honor, he also knew how to charm and disarm with humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2021

Fortunately, Jeanette’s fieriness is matched by the pastel majesty of the mountains towering over the town, and later, the apocalyptic terror of the inferno that converts proud trees into “the standing dead.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2018

It’s a lot for a child character, but the young Mr. Totah is superb: His comic energy is astoundingly well calibrated, and he allows just enough genuine humanity to show through Michael’s haughty, campy fieriness.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

Her face, outlined to express a gentle gravity, was now haughtily passionate; nostrils and lips thrilled with wrath, and her eyes were magnificent in their dark fieriness.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George