And yet she pressed on, leading to the moment, about midway through the episode, when she sits in a car, shrieks something fierce, calls her mother in tears and then turns to Nev Schulman, the show's host-facilitator-enabler, and utters with honest incredulity, "I'm a joke".
Nonetheless, it is a fierce call to action, as Rose challenges women to embrace a new feminism, one that "would have the courage of its contradictions".
J. Freedom du Lac of The Washington Post chose it as one of the best songs on I Am... Sasha Fierce, calling it a "fun, [and] tuneless, gender-twisting play".
Lean and brush-cut, rangy and fierce, he calls to mind an extremely bendy drill bit.
The Freedom Singers, who sang for rallies alongside Dr. King, are elderly now, but they tore into "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" with fierce, jubilant call-and-response.
Maharaurava (great-fearful): A person who indulges at the expense of other beings is afflicted with pain by fierce rurus called kravyadas, who eat his flesh.
At the one minute and ten second mark of the track, there's a spoken-word interlude, with a fierce voice calling out, "I didn't come to play with you hoes, I came to slay bitch".
As far back as 15 years ago, when activists and progressive Democrats like former New Jersey senator, Bill Bradley, suggested amending the Civil Rights Act to include gays, openly gay Congressman Barney Frank expressed fierce opposition, calling it "very controversial".
For a police officer, wisdom is being able to discern when gentle compassion is called for and when fierce compassion is called for.
In a time of fierce partisanship, he calls all citizens to common goals.
The volume of work is fierce: thousands of calls per year and 800 ongoing face-to-face clients.
