Part of its power lies in the undercurrent of sexual tension: Inger's birth cries sound weirdly coital (they were reportedly the real thing: Federspiel really was pregnant and Dreyer tape-recorded her voice while giving birth) and the final embrace is intensely sensual.
It wasn't the first girls' comic to focus on the supernatural – Misty launched only a few weeks after DC Thomson's similarly themed Spellbound was merged with Debbie – but it was the first to embrace it so intensely, so darkly.
Ms. Clinton and her mother embraced, perhaps more intensely and for a moment longer than usual, before Mrs. Clinton began a sweeping paean to women, from the suffragists and Harriet Tubman to Sally Ride.
Having made some of the most influential and popular films of his time, Nolan's work has been as "intensely embraced, analyzed and debated by ordinary film fans as by critics and film academics".
He embraced his new persona intensely and publicly donning the black suits and wide-brimmed hats worn by some Orthodox men.
It was the one-offs that shone through in arthouse cinema, too: the amazing one-take German thriller Victoria; transporting Amazonian epic Embrace Of The Serpent; and intensely focused Holocaust drama Son Of Saul.
How, after all, were Democrats supposed to trumpet a president who remained intensely unpopular, or embrace a health care law that's consistently polled poorly, or make a coherent argument that they deserve power when a string of events has caused voters to question their competence?
Mr. Nolan, after all, was responsible for "The Dark Knight," the most widely viewed, intensely debated, passionately embraced movie of the summer of 2008, and the spell that the movie cast over that season has proven remarkably durable.
The eastern European auteurs embraced briefly, after which the intensely intellectual Pawel breathed: 'He's the only man who makes me feel like a flibbertigibbet.' Addicted to Love Director Anand Tucker could barely make it through the shoot of gala film And When Did You Last See Your Father?
