The fierceness came home to me in Xian when we went to see the warriors.

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The sun burns down so harshly that the contours of all visible items melt in its fierceness.

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Several times, the young woman repeated this motion of tremendous beauty and fierceness.

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There was a terrific fierceness about them some would stamp their feet and let out a shriek before grasping the bar but its focus was inward.

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Baritone Peter Mattei seemed to be living the agony of Amfortas, both in the fierceness of his singing and his halting, excruciating attempts to walk.

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As for the samurai themselves, beauty of armor and fierceness of countenance reinforced their own quasimythical status and helped them keep alive their sense of purpose.

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And came out full of snake wisdom and rhino fierceness.

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Yet the fierceness of the storytelling exerts an unbroken grip, and there is leavening, of a sort, from Michael Caine, who plays a joint-puffing hippie in the woods the last happy man in the world.

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