Fury, fulminations and ferocious debate about taste, hurt and perception.
Is it, as Ry Cooder said, that "perhaps she was just too ferocious for mass white taste"?
The guitarist and producer Ry Cooder says, "Somehow she got lost in the tail end of the soul era — perhaps she was just too ferocious for mass white taste — but she certainly is and was the greatest female soul singer, in a hard-core vein".
One thing he did have, says Diaghilev biographer Lynn Garafola, was "a ferocious will and infinitely discerning taste".
Tres's taste for excess is as ferocious as his addiction to fiery food, and the fearless joy he takes in his roughneck adventures gives a real kick to this colorful series.
For almost two hours, the audience looked on as epic and often metaphysical questions — of faith, language, taste, value, ownership, legacy — were debated with ferocious intensity.
I haven't been able to hear a word Justin said, I can still taste silt dust and it's been the toughest, most ferocious 88 miles of my driving life.
37 min: Pereira gives Bosingwa a taste of his own medicine, bombing past the Portuguese before unleashing a ferocious low drive that fizzed just past the post.
The ferocious row over "The Skeptical Environmentalist", a new book by Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician with a taste for economic analysis, is a case in point.
When one of them pulls out a real piece in the middle of a ferocious argument with a rival gang, everyone on both sides is deeply pained by this error of taste.
