Sentence examples for formal intensity from inspiring English sources

Familiar as the players were with one another, the game had a formal intensity about it.

Made about the time of his "Weeping Woman" series, it has all the colorful, late-Cubist formal intensity and zany figurative distortion of the period and none of the pain.

His poetry is complex, philosophical and witty, and in Russian it has a formal intensity and semantic density that is impossible to reproduce in English, much to Brodsky's disappointment.

Prince's songwriting heyday, which stretched from 1979 to 1988, is rivalled only by the Beatles' in generosity, formal variety, and intensity.

He is a unique mixture of coolness and intensity, superb formal ability and awkward daring.

Their painterly intensity and formal composition derive from Henri Cartier-­Bresson's definition of photography as "the decisive moment," the juncture of maximal effect and maximal information.

But it has a searching, unbroken intensity, a formal difficulty, even a forbidding quality, that Binet's very appealing novel lacks.

This isn't to say that Merrill ever sacrificed formal polish for emotional intensity; his lyrics at all stages of his career have a lapidary smoothness and mosaic fit that recall not his beloved Greeks but, if anyone, the Roman lyricist Horace -- another poet who was haunted by the specter of time and death even as he puckishly pursued the pleasures of life.

In 2001 our reviewer, Daniel Mendelsohn, praised both the formal skill and emotional intensity of Merrill's work, saying "his lyrics... have a lapidary smoothness and mosaic fit that recall not his beloved Greeks but, if anyone, the Roman lyricist Horace -- another poet who was haunted by the specter of time and death even as he puckishly pursued the pleasures of life".

The spiritual drive of French Impressionism was an appetite for sensuous intensity, steadied by formal rigor and an almost scientific detachment.

Formal rehabilitation programmes vary in intensity and duration.