Nikola - cosmopolitan, cultivated, universally feared - is highly intelligent but unscrupulous.

It is interesting that this may be the only area in which dependence is almost universally feared and resented.

In anyone but Kelson, the combination might have been deadly, for Deryni were almost universally feared throughout Gwynedd, and hated by many.

Universally feared and envied, universally respected for their enterprise, yet for their complacency very widely despised, the Americans were rapidly changing the whole character of man's existence.

Wizards see it as their duty to protect us, as we are universally feared and hated.

What's more, they're pretty much feared universally.

It was a quandary to which the academic-turned-police-official was growing accustomed as an outsider bent on transforming a police department that has been universally feared and accused of defects like ignoring lawbreakers, extracting bribes and even working in league with crooks.

Universally feared in the computer industry because of his company's domination of the software market, William H. Gates 3d has been attempting to stake out a similar claim to the emerging world of interactive television.

He was feared universally.

However, other factors also played major roles in the revival of a brilliant career often blighted by putting lapses and finally threatened by the universally feared yips.