Sentence examples for but intently from inspiring English sources

"And you look around," she went on, quietly but intently.

Their young Brooklyn eyes took in the gold leaf and shimmering lights, shyly but intently.

From one bed, eyes watch drowsily but intently; from another, a gurgle: "Ahhh," then, faintly, "mennnn".

"It's becoming increasingly difficult to live in Westchester because of Andy Spano's tax increases," said Mr. Astorino, speaking softly but intently.

Eric Silver, a sociology professor, said: "My sense of the situation is that the community is following the trial quietly but intently, and that folks here will be relieved when it is all over.

Outside the courthouse, perhaps a hundred protesters who had been gathering through the night, their numbers building as the hours passed, began pumping their fists in the air, waving placards and chanting, "No justice, no peace!" Sheriff's deputies lined up inside the courthouse, watching the crowd, who were chanting peacefully, but intently.

He'd danced comically but also intently.

I remember he seldom said much, but listened intently to everything, often laughing at something he alone found amusing.

He did not "ignore" the choir's version of Blowin' in the Wind but listened intently and applauded.

The women sit cross-legged on a worn rug on the dusty ground, heads lowered shyly but listening intently.

Like other recent productions of this opera, but more intently, this version exposes the plot mechanism involving partner swapping for the cynical gesture it is, while unleashing the torrent of genuine emotions the scheme provokes.