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

“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

“(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

“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

“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

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

World Hum

“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)

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

The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Kidnapped

“However, people have always been scared of nuclear waste far out of proportion to its actual deadliness, vastly more people have been killed by smog than by nuclear waste.”

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