"But Paul was outdoors through the whole thing, until 3 in the morning, with a kind of ferocious physical energy."

Past and present don't fit seamlessly together here; they collide with ferocious energy.

But there is also, toward the end of the exhibition, a ferocious overriding energy.

All of them played with such ferocious energy and skill that, for the next nightmarish seven minutes, she didn't touch the ball.

They worked with a ferocious energy which was out of all proportion to the actual result achieved.

He continued running them all with ferocious energy.

But all that ferocious energy should not be allowed to go to waste.

The ferocious energy of the dwarf was terrible to see.

She had climbed up the ladder with ferocious energy a few minutes before.

The little man fixed her with a glance of ferocious energy.