Into the beautiful Tanat Valley now, and after half an hour on a road gently winding through intense greenery, we are in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.
And yet this gently spoken, lissom, slightly intense chef has the kind of CV most cooks would kill for.
The founder and director of the acclaimed Bach Collegium Japan, Mr. Suzuki brought long, almost tidal phrasing to this monumental work, a sense of steady momentum that encompassed both Bach's gently reflective and his furiously intense passages.
It was hot, passionate; adrenaline rushing sex, as our bodies gently stroke one another during this intense intimacy.
The atonal vocal writing illustrating "The Dream," Louise Bogan's intense poem, contrasted with the gently lyrical settings of Christina Rossetti's "Echo" and Willa Cather's poem "The Hawthorn Tree".
Cook them slowly and gently and the meat turns soft and succulent, with intense flavor and luscious richness; you don't even need sauce.
It is an account of the last years of the Habsburg empire, a gently lyrical, romantic tribute to the strengths and weaknesses of that intense time, when the sun inexorably set on the old aristocratic values for ever.
The substitution of La3+ for Sr2+ and Li+ for Cu2+ in SrCuSi4O10 gently changes the color of the pigment from sky-blue to intense blue and as a result the band gap of the pigment powders increases from 2.59 to 2.68 eV.
It's raining gently around us and, lunch over, Ramsay, by turns animated, reflective and intense, is ordering a second large glass of white wine.
