It's an intense act to follow.
It was a refreshingly intense act with all the trappings of a potentially thrilling stage show -- death-defying stunts and a dashing daredevil performer.
Comparing this idea to Ai Weiwei's renowned Ming-vase dropping, "an intense act or aggression against history itself," with the destruction of beautiful objects.
This is not music to do the ironing to – it is best experienced live, as a kind of intense, collective act of listening, as will undoubtedly happen when Boulez conducts his own Ensemble Intercontemporain in October.
He's just an intense, act-first, think-later person.
It's an act of severe, intense solitude, partly now destroyed by the internet, and its deceptive promise of the ease of looking things up as you go along.
There is a long and gruelling section in the middle of Goat Mountain, in which the boy kills his first buck, which is one of the most intense and detailed examinations of an act of violence I have ever read in a work of fiction.
Lately, I've been thinking about the act of attention, the intense one-on-one receiving of someone else's pain and suffering.
Obviously, Patton Oswalt's sage words are helping many to heal from the intense pain of yet another senseless act of terrorism (domestic or otherwise).
The reader/writer relationship is more intense and more participatory, and really itself becomes an act of psychological reckoning.
