Word: fiercer
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...startlingly similar, as you can see in the entire room of heads painted by both artists. Bacon's 1971 Selfportrait shares some Cubist influences with Picasso's 1909 Head of a Man. But in almost every case Bacon's portraits reflect more motion, energy and distortion - and deliver a fiercer punch to the nervous system...
...even though it wasn’t the Crimson’s usual first-place finish, the competition was much fiercer with a number of nationally ranked teams. Harvard held its own, finishing atop the unranked teams with a score of 492 points for a respectable end to the meet...
...Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard recently accused Boeing of conducting a "campaign of untruths" - governments on both sides of the Atlantic have occasionally pushed the boundaries of diplomacy in trying to promote their respective national champions. Skyrocketing fuel prices and cut-back purchase plans have made the battle fiercer than ever, and last week a full-scale trade donnybrook erupted. Fulfilling a campaign promise, the Bush Administration filed a case with the World Trade Organization accusing the European Union of supplying Airbus with illegal subsidies...
...Boston this week, a wide variety of protesters gathered intermittently to pound out their own slogans in the environs of the FleetCenter. Some, scorning the Party faithful who gathered nearby, urged passersby to trust President Bush at all costs; others used the convention as an opportunity to launch a fiercer brand of anti-administration rhetoric than might have been allowed on the upbeat stage, lacing their words with righteous condemnation and the occasional expletive...
...smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...