While some Broadway insiders complain that the coming Tonys lack breakout hit shows like the 2011 contenders "The Book of Mormon," "Anything Goes," and "War Horse," this year's competition is expected to be more ferocious than usual in several races, especially for plays, while some of the musical categories are harder to predict.
The exhausted firefighters battling fires that have menaced Los Angeles wouldn't normally expect to be dealing with such ferocious conflagrations with Christmas just a few weeks away.
"I expect there to be ferocious and very aggressive attempts to communicate to the ownership how important this paper is to the city of New Orleans," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu, himself a former paperboy.
With Greek bonds again under ferocious pressure on the financial markets today, Papandreou said Athens was not expecting to be bailed out by the other 15 members of the single currency.
I was a ferocious singer and the only people he allowed to be ferocious were David Ruffin and Levi Stubbs.
Almost every moral code, religious and secular, implores us to claim this responsibility -- to be ferocious protectors, as opposed to ferocious conquerors.
Given that their Premier League status for next season is confirmed and the title is now out of reach, Burnley might have been expected to allow their ferocious intensity to drop just a little.
(In addition, hurricanes draw their energy from the warm surface waters of the oceans; as sea surface temperatures rise, storms are expected to become more ferocious, and, since higher temperatures also produce evaporation, storms will drop more rain).
