Some commodities have endured ferocious price falls: oil peaked at $115 a barrel in June, and by early December was trading at around $70 a barrel.
Along the way, he develops a ferocious addiction, falls out of favor with the public, squanders money, chooses the wrong women and generally self-destructs.
He is a ferocious dropout, a falling leaf with a master plan.
The Standard's biggest coup today is getting journalistic icon and founding figure of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, to pen a three-page short story, a "compellingly ferocious take on the fall of the back and corporate chiefs and hwo they must cope with the loss of their trappings of power".
Like every other aspect of education, gift-giving has fallen prey to ferocious competition among middle-class parents.
The Thunder made the best of a tough schedule last week, beating both the Spurs and the Pacers before falling to a ferocious Knicks team Sunday.
Many Alarms Rang Before MF Global Crashed | While the commodities and derivatives broker MF Global fell apart with ferocious speed, the collapse came after regulators raised warning flags for more than four months.
Few operas elicit anger like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's still-ferocious 1930 satire "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," currently being powerfully sung and acted at the Manhattan School of Music.
There were some sizable voices to be sure, but they barreled their way through the music, sweeping away details like ornament and intonation in their wake: rather alarmingly in the case of Irina Gordei's Lady Macbeth, who pounced upon the opening notes of phrases with a ferocious swoop, like a vulture falling on defenseless prey.
David Jeffries of Allmusic claimed the album is "a great informal introduction to the ferocious and melodic witches' brew Shadows Fall always seems to nail".
