Next month, Mr. Gentile is up against a former Republican state senator who is fiercely trying to make a political comeback.
She asked that The New Yorker not publish her name because she feared that Earl's fans would harass her, and she is fiercely trying to protect her teen-age son from the exigencies of sudden fame.
In trying to stitch that broken bread back together, I see a life that has been torn apart through sickness and loss that is fiercely trying to make something whole.
And you can expect tech giants to fight tooth and nail against laws being drafted and passed — as indeed Facebook, Google and others lobbied fiercely to try to get GDPR watered down.
Formerly marginal people came together, competed fiercely and tried to resolve their own uncomfortable relationships with society.
Fiercely competitive, she would try to outthink and outwrite the competition on the job, and she could outdrink and outsmoke it off the job.
Clinging to their work, the miners reacted fiercely when soldiers tried to arrest one of the men at the site.
It was more of a command than a question, and we were soon racing toward Beef Island in a Hobie Cat, its pontoons slapping the water fiercely as we tried to keep up with two boats carrying friends of his.
Everyone in this piercing memoir — Seek's ex-boyfriend, her dying father, the generous and dedicated adoptive parents, and the earnest and observant person her son becomes — tries fiercely and exhaustively to make these relationships work.
"It has worked great for him to have two cities competing so fiercely, with everybody trying to make the maximum efforts to meet his wishes," Xavier Trias, the mayor of Barcelona, said earlier this year.
