Sentence examples for once fierce from inspiring English sources

He was at once fierce and kind, intensely serious and very funny.

They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa.

Ferrari and Maserati, once fierce Italian rivals, now share and share alike, playing nice within the Fiat family.

But they were once fierce and, like others with turf to defend, held a vital stake in battles and weapons.

"Desai's novel seems lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender," Pankaj Mishra wrote in the Book Review.

For one thing, the Manchus, once fierce warriors on horseback, had grown too used to the sedentary ways of the Chinese they had conquered.

In addition, the overcrowding has forced Mr Straw to drop Labour's once-fierce opposition to privately owned and operated prisons.

Even Julia Child didn't want to cook like Julia Child toward the end, abandoning her once-fierce preference for homemade mayonnaise in favor of Hellman's.

In recent years, the once-fierce criticism from liberals about the legitimacy of any use of military detention and tribunals has become muted.

Now, suddenly, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and a long list of other once-fierce opponents of the undocumented and their families want only to help.

Axl and Beatrice are granted permission to leave their town, and early on in their journey they encounter bloodthirsty pixies, a once-fierce dragon made weak with age, a passionate warrior who harbors a lust for vengeance, and a stubborn boatman whose route leads passengers to an Eden-like mythical land.