Sentence examples for ferocious ability from inspiring English sources

Pepys's youthful bouts of illness left him with a ferocious ability to live in the present moment: to grab what happiness and pleasure he could, even as plague and political cacophony raged around him.

Because of his ferocious ability to rebound the basketball, Malone was given the nickname "Chairman of the Boards".

It's about having spent eight years with these people, and it's about the show's ferocious ability to get me invested in their lives.

Her concentration is ferocious, her ability to draw us into her world prodigious.

The international athlete is also known as "The Honey Badger", a title bestowed upon him after he declared the vicious mammal's ferocious defensive abilities inspired his game.

The speed at which Atlético counter-attacked was ferocious and their ability to drag Chelsea defenders out of position gave them space on which they capitalised ruthlessly.

A 5-foot-11 guy with skinny arms was not going to last long in this world unless he had something else going for him, and what McEnroe had was his ferocious personality, the ability to dictate the tone and dynamic of every match he played.

Some cells, such as the neutrophil, are particularly ferocious in their ability to destroy bacteria, but are very short lived and tend to remain within the confines of the circulatory system, exiting only when they are summoned by signals that emanate from the extravascular compartment.

Given his ferocious match-defining abilities, Shearer could easily have got carried away in an era when celebrity culture was beginning to infect football, but he was aware from the earliest England and title-winning days at Blackburn Rovers of the weight of his opinion.

He showed no mercy when sealing Masters success one year ago, just as glory at the US Open two months later demonstrated the matching of God-given ability with ferocious competitive spirit.

"He had a ferocious, brilliant intellect and the ability to write entertaining narratives," said Lynn Nesbitt, his agent since "The Andromeda Strain".