| He forced through his reformation by terror, against the wills of almost all his subjects, by savagely suppressing dissent. |
| Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote. |
| At the weekend, he goes out and hacks savagely at the undergrowth of the garden. |
| She mocks their employer savagely behind his back and displays a kittenish charm to his face. |
| The novel is 130 pages of dialogue, savagely satirical and lively, with lines that would not disgrace a top-flight sitcom. |
| She was the mastermind behind a robbery in which her estranged husband was savagely beaten with an axe. |
