Of course, my ruminations about a less-aggressive America inspired by a less-fierce national bird occurred before Lizzy and I were attacked by the turkeys.
With the contentious battle to host the 2012 Olympic Games coming to a close, a no less fierce competition has touched off among top corporations looking to secure highly coveted Olympic sponsorship rights.
But just because segments are softer, does not mean the competition is any less fierce.
The angel has landed again, and she's looking a little less fierce.
Conversations with actual Egyptians proved to be a lot less fierce, even when they ran the same course.
If the lovers were just a touch less fierce-looking, Mill and Taylor would make as good a Victorian love story as Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett.
Weighing in at 90 pounds of rage on the page and a hair heavier and less fierce on the screen, where she's played by Noomi Rapace, Salander embodies a host of au courant fantasies.
We would spend the day off Montauk Point, pursuing a smaller, inedible, but no less fierce or lovely tuna, the false albacore.
Less fierce, though a better craftsman, is R.K. Narayan, who has published nine novels (as well as many short stories), among them The Guide (1958), The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), and The Vendor of Sweets (1967); his work has a wider circle of readers outside India than within.
If executives were all paid 5% of current levels, the competition between them (a questionable virtue anyway) would be no less fierce.
