Sentence examples for turned ferocious from inspiring English sources

In the Firestone case, Mr. Tauzin, who typically spools out Cajun humor in policy debates, turned ferocious.

Thus it was that Anonymous came out very strongly against Acta, and the lobbying against Acta turned ferocious.

But what appeared to be a minor fire in a hardware store on Astoria Boulevard in Queens turned ferocious when cans of combustible fluids apparently erupted in a tremendous explosion and a tumult of bricks and rubble.

"In the end I visited them when they were dead". Abu Bahri, a smart 45-year-old man with a close-cut beard, recounts how the town dug fresh graves a few months ago when the fighting in Aleppo province turned ferocious.

But the beautiful mermaids turn ferocious, sprouting fangs and hissing like cobras; pirates harpoon dozens of them.

Throughout "Correspondances" Ms. Xaba and Ms. Noël undercut despair with humor — friendly hip bumps turn ferocious, yet the scene is more funny than violent.

At last, Burton lets his voice out: playing his role as inadvertent betrayer of Mundt, he turns ferocious, telling Fiedler he's nuts to suspect Mundt of bad conduct.

In the wake of his defeat the attacks on Howard's legacy will turn ferocious, but at their heart will be an unease, a ritual exorcism of something deeper that Australians would perhaps rather not admit.

There the simple, amiable, good-hearted and altogether too cute rustics turn ferocious when their settlements are threatened by Indians; the British are nearly invisible, represented almost entirely by a vulpine, eye-patched John Carradine, who incites the Indians to commit their atrocities.

Later, she writes, "Whole Foods turns ferocious" -- implying that all of this "do-gooding" is sheep's clothing for a voracious wolf eager to gobble up anyone who steps in its path of profit.

They deploy their legs like lethal weapons, their arms like whips, their torsos like undulating pythons; they dive perilously into each other's arms, and spiral over each other's shoulders -- yet we never hear a footfall or thud, never witness a shudder or rebound, even when the choreography turns ferocious.