"His novels have long been attractive to film-makers," says Field, "for the very primal reason that his work examines our core, the two faces of violence that co-exist in every savage act – brutal strength of purpose holding hands with a desperate and cowering weakness".
(MB) Donatello's art has savage force and strength.
Alexandra's friend Carl, the one who saved the kitten, says to himself about the prairie "that men were too weak to make any mark there, that the land wanted to be left alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness".
In O Pioneers!, the first generation of homesteaders arrive in this "stern frozen country", to find that "the land" — as Cather repeatedly, definitely, calls the prairie — just "wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness".
Odysseus carried a large skin with this wine, in case on the way he had to deal with some unknown savage of great strength who "would respect neither right nor law".
Meanwhile, the back cover of my edition features no less than Angela Carter proclaiming it to be a "novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength" which filled her with "wild, savage envy".
The subsequent battle of Meuse-Argonne, in which Pershing, Mr. Eisenhower writes, seriously underestimated the strength of enemy resistance, saw some of the most savage and costly fighting in the war.
An uncanny ironist, as a prophet must be, Emerson is archetypically American in his appreciation of power: "In history, the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty - and you have Pericles and Phidias - not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility.
And such is the strength of Nigerian music that it's drawing people back home – Tiwa Savage was a UK X Factor contestant on 2006, who subsequently signed to Sony and became an in-demand songwriter with US R&B stars.
