She is a seductive beauty, alternatively charming and difficult, sensitive and fierce.

These pieces are written in closely packed prose, like miniature short stories, but they have a fierce lilting beauty that marks them as poetry.

The fierce beauty and nobility of the leonopteryx gave the species a place in central Na'vi lore and culture.

I admire its strength, its fierce beauty, its determination to survive.

And a rare, fierce beauty that hardship had only intensified, but he knew she would not believe that if he said so.

Then she turned to look out at the fierce, stormy beauty of the Draavids.

The harsh landscape in which Orringer's characters dwell corresponds to the fierce beauty of her writing.

Somewhere he had gotten a red slash on his cheek, which should have been ugly, but it gave him the fierce beauty of a wild cat.

The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them.

The spectacle was horrible and degrading, yet even in their hormone-induced fury, the animals were possessed of a fierce beauty.