Bharati Mukherjee

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.

Indian Writer

Sabine Baring-Gould

Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

English Clergyman

Gillian Flynn

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.

American Author

Mal Peet

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

English Author

Havelock Ellis

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

British Psychologist

Jim Mattis

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

American Public Servant

Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

British Philosopher

George Vecsey

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Irish Playwright

John W. Gardner

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

American Educator

Used to emphasize strong emotional responses and reactions.

Emotional Intensity

Often implies negative actions or events, though the emotion behind them can be positive or negative.

Negative Connotation

Can describe both physical aggression and abstract concepts, like a storm or debate.

Physical and Abstract

 How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.

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 we're creating strong communities of tradeswomen as a microcosm for what we believe the industry needs at a macro level. We're filling their toolboxes with drills and saws and ferocity and joy. These are the young women who will go forth to build the world we all want to see.

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 and they were met with attack dogs, people, private security officers, wielding attack dogs in. But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her

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 I loved her, but the ferocity that a child has sometimes before she understands that love also requires letting go. But my clearest and sharpest memory of my auntie, is also one of my first memories of life at all.

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 mascot it is a rural cleaner playing a vital role in the ecosystem by devouring carcasses that might otherwise lead to disease full-grown Tasmanian devils are famous fighters their ferocity is

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 I just got this eye shine coming back up the fusa has a long live elegant form but its ferocity gives it the power of an animal many times its size this is my

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 is new to the world of the undead you can tell by his incredible strength and ferocity there are four distinct

Ferocity