So it made sense that this young, scruffy boardwalk rat might be called "Boss" before his time, and, once he was allowed back in the studio, make a record that was a fierce, clear-but-bleary-eyed look at the hard truths of modern American adulthood.
NICHOLAS THOMPSON: Biden is fierce and clear, so far.
The protesters were listless in the midday furnace of the equatorial sun but their message was fierce and clear.
But listen to Mom when she says, "bravery resides in every heart" -- and yours is fierce and clear.
There isn't a lot of consolation to be found in their wary, damaged gathering - except in the prose, and the vision it reveals, which is brave, fierce and clear-sighted about blood, lust and loss.
Although the formal rules of succession are clear, fierce political fights are likely, and attempts by powerful interest groups to redistribute the country's economic spoils.
Our hard, clear, fierce winter cold felt as immutable as the peaks of the Alaska Range towering in the distance, across the Tanana Flats.
The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate over clear-cutting of ancient Pacific forests.
Its fierce opposition to clearing Garry's name illustrates a difficulty inherent in seeking justice for wrongful convictions: the offices that seek convictions are, years later, the same ones tasked with fairly assessing whether they might have been wrong.
In the second period of extra-time the Burkinabe came close again when Bance's fierce drives somehow cleared off the line by Afful.
After months of fierce fighting, he saw clear changes when he left Sangin in early 2011.
