(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(2) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(3) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(4) And there were moments when the ferocity of the disease made some clinicians wonder if anything would stand in its way.
(5) The ferocity of the battle, once the results of the prime minister’s negotiations with his EU partners had been announced, has taken Downing Street aback.
(6) Dozens have been injured on either side; the ferocity of the attacks has shocked the nation.
(7) "Dislike" is, in fact, far too mild: there's a depth of contempt, a cold ferocity of detestation, that can shock.
(8) The Huffington Post reported that some in the CIA have been pushing for the US to make a secret pact with Bashar al-Assad, the same dictator we almost went to war with a year ago – the same man who has suddenly stepped up his country’s ferocity of attacks on the US-backed rebels , ahead of the expected air campaign.
(9) In explaining his opposition to Adani’s plans, Ian Chappell said “you don’t need to be Einstein when you see the frequency and the ferocity of some of the weather events that we’ve been having”.
(10) June 8, 2014 2.34pm BST First set: Djokovic* 3-2 Nadal Djokovic goes 40-15 up with a flying crosscourt forehand from deep behind the baseline that lands perfectly on the line, a shot of beauty and ferocity.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Slowing his words in a way some viewers interpreted as patronising, Kellerman continued: “But he had to be hitting you with something because you weren’t attacking him with the same kind of ferocity that we sometimes see you attack.
(12) Now that ally is showing as much ferocity in striking at the "moderates" of the Free Syrian Army as against the regime.
(13) Most were still reeling from the ferocity and speed of the attacks.
(14) Slater has run scores of posts attacking the German, increasing in frequency and ferocity since Dotcom’s founding of the Internet party.
(15) You should not use bad language any time to police officers and I should not have used it.” He accepted that it was said that a chief whip had to have a mixture of charm and menace, and that he could be abrasive, but said: “I strive not to be abrasive.” He said: “I don’t believe any of my colleagues who knew me well would have believed I would call a police officer a pleb.” He added: “When there is a media storm of the ferocity which hit me – the extraordinary tsunami of vitriol which descended on my head over a prolonged period of time led by the Sun – it is not surprising that very few people would put their head above the barricade and defend me, although a certain number did.” Mitchell agreed that he had a temper, but not that he was quick to lose it.
(16) But as the equipment inspected the bathroom, Mohamed Merah burst out, apparently armed with several weapons, and fired with extreme ferocity … Raid officers returned fire.
(17) She once took on Nigel Farage on Question Time with a ferocity that impressed colleagues, but later prompted slightly different reactions when she said that Farage looked like “somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it”.
(18) She had never seen him play with such energy, such ferocity.
(19) The before-and-after photographs of Doron Baga, which lies 1.5 miles from Baga, reveal the ferocity of the onslaught, with more than 3,100 structures damaged or destroyed by fire.
(20) Certainly she struggled to keep up with Bouchard’s sustained ferocity from the baseline.
Vehemence
Definition:
(n.) The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
(n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(2) With all the vehemence I could muster, I took a spoonful of the spinach and threw it at the ceiling.
(3) On the way back he looks out over the fields and says with sudden vehemence: "Deer: I hate them.
(4) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
(5) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
(6) For the average climate science denier in the street (and there are a lot of them on some streets), there is often little correlation between the vehemence of their denials and the so-called "facts" at their disposal.
(7) To the south are Shia militias who have responded with vehemence and are transforming the frontlines into a sectarian showdown that pays no heed to the state.
(8) The taxpayer hasn't lost anything, the business minister insists with some vehemence.
(9) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
(10) Indeed, there seems to be some sort of inverse correlation between the ignorance of the speaker and the vehemence with which they hold their opinion.
(11) The vehemence of his attack will antagonise the pensions industry, already angry at Miliband's promise to clamp down on City predators.
(12) Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.
(13) In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists .
(14) What distinguished Rivers' work was the vehemence (and the delight) she brought to the task, the quality of the jokes (she was, above all, a great gag woman) – and of course the fact that the last laugh was always on her.
(15) So it is with vehemence rather than violence that they dismiss the Falklands' first referendum on sovereignty, due to start on Sunday, which is expected to reinforce at the ballot box what was determined by guns and tanks in 1982: UK rule over the south Atlantic islands and the sea lanes around them.
(16) Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business.
(17) Although sports fans may be a little surprised by the vehemence of Morrissey's reaction, an event that combined corporate sponsorship from McDonald's with the near-constant presence of the royal family was unlikely to win his favour.
(18) When she announced her candidacy she criticised the “financial industry” and “multinational corporations” that have “created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value, too much on complex trading schemes and stock buy-backs, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs and fair compensation.” She may not share Sanders’s vehemence on the issue.
(19) The rising number of interests in the war and the vehemence of the protagonists is, however, making attempts to control Lebanon evermore difficult.
(20) Mediated by cognitive variables persons with emphatic perception may develop an association between anxiety and allergic processes with high probability, the reciprocal influence of which can increase with vehemence.