Sentence examples for ferociousness from inspiring English sources

His ferocious hits, then, were not due to any innate ferociousness, but rather to the laws of physics.

Then there was no escaping his size and ferociousness.

— At some point Saturday, the glare was supposed to be too much for the Texas A&M Aggies, the new arrivals in the Southeastern Conference, who were not supposed to be ready for the ferociousness of this kind of SEC road game.

While Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow pound manfully on the door, Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith knock politely, little preparing you for the emotional ferociousness with which they plan on making themselves at home.

The other said linebacker James Harrison, then with the Steelers, because his perceived ferociousness would batter stereotypes.

You see these shifts in Mr. Thompson's physicality, which marries arch deconstructions with a particular ferociousness; you can pet him, but he isn't housebroken.

Mr. Frank said his decision to photograph the fights in black-and-white was directly related to the ferociousness of the sport.

And if it has no humanlike awareness, it is endowed, like the polar bear, with "irresponsible ferociousness".

That you can't gain a competitive edge with just any diploma from just any college is reflected in the ferociousness of the race to get into elite universities.

He had just transferred his football ferociousness to baseball, Yonamine explained.

Torch songs like "Cry Me a River" and "When the Sun Comes Out" became roller coasters of psycho­drama, yet she never played the victim; one felt her ferociousness ­every time she lurched for a high note, then seized it as though she had scaled the Matterhorn.