Sarah's parents, teachers, agents and record producers have a ferocious desire to see her transcend the novelty years to become an enduring star.

Its hostility toward her, its inanimate and yet ferocious desire to inflict destruction on her, became overwhelming; she cringed from the disc's touch.

To the return of Rodolfo, Peregrina will have to face the unique man whom she has loved, whose enthusiastic love has become hatred and a ferocious desire of revenge.

But he also was spurred on by a ferocious desire of vengeance.

She emerged from Soviet life filled not with hate, but with a ferocious desire to tear the Soviet heart out of the new Russia.

People who wanted so badly to destroy America, not with a revolutionary's wish for utopia, but with a ferocious desire to be the new masters of their type of order.

Friends say Mr. Puccio is motivated in his cases by an unusually ferocious desire to win.

This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" (1996) celebrates the unfettered imagination and the ferocious desires it can unleash.

Despite the favoritism shown by Mr. Marcos, Mr. Tan also displayed a ferocious desire for his companies to succeed on their own merits.