Sentence examples for concentrating intently from inspiring English sources

They are hunched over tables in hotels and convention centers, concentrating intently as they compete for trophies.

To a player who is concentrating intently in a point, such an unexpected pause is like half of the musicians in a symphony inexplicably stopping.

Many jurors listened with mouths open, concentrating intently on Ms. Thurman's testimony, as if they were watching a dramatic performance in a hushed theater.

When you looked into the Cardinals' dugout, you noticed a man built like Popeye or King Kong, depending on your angle, and concentrating intently on the game while blowing bubbles with his gum.

ADHD can be a confusing condition because people may be fidgety and unable to focus and yet – as Phelps so spectacularly proved – are capable of concentrating intently on an activity they find rewarding.

We move beyond anything like sub-vocalizing instructions, deliberating or reflecting and yet we are concentrating intently on the behavior.

"You ruined my talk!" shrieks the sweet-faced boy who must concentrate intently to string his words together.

This requires a marked ability to focus energies, to concentrate intently either upon the audience directly or upon a fellow actor and, thereby, indirectly upon the audience.

"Being alive, however, I'd ask readers to view the difference between the Cloud Atlases less like a director's cut versus the original release and more like two very slightly different versions of the same song, recorded with the same musicians, in the same room, at the same session, with differences of only a few notes and a few words, which you can only spot if you concentrate intently.

I was concentrating so intently that Bob later told me that he thought that I might be in an advanced stage of hypothermia, and was on the verge of pulling me out.

The contributors are too polite to comment on his artistic decline in his last three decades, but by concentrating so intently on the fresh, vibrant New York street scenes he painted between 1904 and 1919, they make a strong case for his best work.