Sentence examples for out of ferocity from inspiring English sources

"Out of ferocity, avarice, and ambition, the three vices which run throughout the human race," Vico says, "legislation creates the military, merchant, and governing classes, and thus the strength, riches, and wisdom of commonwealths.

As a former New York City pupil, parent and parent organizer, let me shed some light on the "lead-follow-or-get-out-of-the-way ferocity" that Mr. Friedman admires.

It is the whatever-it-takes-tenacity of the Geoffrey Canadas; it is the no-excuses-seriousness of the KIPP school (Knowledge is Power Program) founders; it is the lead-follow-or-get-out-of-the-way ferocity of the Washington and New York City school chancellors, Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein.

Full of ferocity and exploit, hip-hop is the rumble of the dispossessed world that the Broadway musical left out of its song.

It did not indicate a satisfactory degree of ferocity.

Mascots, in order of ferocity: Wildcat, Jayhawk, Cardinal, Buckeye.

Justifying the purge, which was spoken about euphemistically but carried out in secrecy, the Argentine military espoused a brand of anti-Communist ferocity that echoed Franco's Fascist witch hunt, which had previously devastated Republican Spain — a brand of ferocity that also shared his deeply entrenched ultra-Catholic and anti-Semitic views.

We always think of ferocity when we think of bulls.

Lord Bauer is a small, courtly man given to flashes of ferocity.

My clients represented the whole continuum of ferocity toward women.

Scarlett Johansson purrs, mewls, and occasionally hisses as Maggie the Cat in the new Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but there is not much of the claws-out, feline ferocity that make Margaret Pollitt one of Tennessee Williams' most desperate characters.