It wasn't so long ago, of course, that Simon Cowell's serious political endorsement was ferociously sought by both major parties, with Gordon Brown said to have been in agonies to discover that the Sun's splash on the morning of the 2010 general election featured Cowell coming out for the Tories.
Again, my first instinct is that they must have been rubbernecking, the sordid allegations having made HRH a rather grim sort of draw, or at the very least not as ferociously dull and pointless as the rest of the apres-ski programme.
White and Black witches are divided into ferociously hostile factions with notorious skirmishes between the two.
Patrick Ensor (obituary, July 3) was a ferociously sharp journalist, clever, dedicated, hugely industrious - shamingly so to many of his colleagues like me - and hugely creative.
He hit so ferociously that the BBC's highlights could not keep up; but it was as well tactically that he did - including off Lawson's two accidental beamers - because the runs plundered that evening would not have been half so readily available next morning, against fresh bowlers and a new ball.
"It was always an argument we intended to make and I am absolutely convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that the reason the Better Together parties reacted so ferociously to that was that they knew how important it was," Sturgeon recalled.
She names each bird (Chip and Putt; Seve and Monty) and guards them ferociously.
The oil and coal lobbies are ferociously opposed to the EPA rules, as is the Republican leadership in Congress.
For a man as ferociously intelligent, quick and gregarious as Hawking, the complete inability to interact normally must be a catastrophe.
Gethin Jenkins, celebrating his 100th cap, and Richard Hibbard, tackling ferociously, were unyielding in the battle with the famed Argentinian scrummagers.
There's a skull on a bookshelf and, on the wall, a photograph of a Victorian man glaring ferociously.
