deadliness

Sara: I don’t think its deadliness is the issue — it’s that there is no long term storage

The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Nuclear Option 2010

I don’t think its deadliness is the issue — it’s that there is no long term storage.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Nuclear Option 2010

(I say "deadliness" with some justification, for it compares very favorably with, say, the poisonous snakes of India, whose bites take more hours to bring on death than the jambi does minutes.)

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

She saw a man now -- wild, white, intense as fire, with some terrible cool kind of deadliness in his mien.

The Man of the Forest 1919

She saw a man now -- wild, white, intense as fire, with some terrible cool kind of deadliness in his mien.

The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905

But if there was nothing dastardly in this, neither was there anything heroic, since I was proof against that kind of deadliness if Bob was not.

No Hero 1893

So where does swine flu fit in on the scale of "deadliness"?

World Hum 2009

I don't know about the overall "deadliness", but the lung cancer is caused by the

unknown title 2009

But what really works with this story is that it grabs you with the sense of deadliness and betrayal being associated with the most familiar settings and people that are supposed to be safe.

MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

It quickly becomes grating, rather than unnerving, even as the violence itself increases in deadliness.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kidnapped Marshall Fine 2011