According to him, Madonna's compositions were serious, and intense, directing the creative direction of the songs into a deeply personal territory.
Likewise, low-intensity fluorescent lighting is ideal for dracaenas; more intense, direct light can be damaging.
The effect is something like emergency writing for our times: intense, direct, daring, and also somewhat limited and repetitive.
The plantations are tightly managed and mechanically irrigated, with close plantings and little shade, and exposed to an intense direct light that makes the trees hyperproductive.
Although I'd never grilled them before, I knew that the intense direct flames could render the shoulder chops tough and chewy.
Shostakovich's genius, like Beethoven's, was to subsume formal complexity and innovation into a style that achieved intense, direct communication with large audiences -- in large part because of that very complexity and innovation.
While miso loses some of its subtlety when it is exposed to intense, direct heat, grilling isn't about subtlety anyway, especially when you add ginger, garlic and chili.
Whether in your own oven, a wood-fired one or even on a skillet over a barbecue or open fire, the intense direct heat reduces the water content in the fruit, concentrating its flavour.
A gas grill or hot oven will work if you let the eggplant skin practically turn to ash, which takes longer than it would over the intense direct heat of the grill.
Electrochromic glazing or exterior shading devices offer shading of the intense direct sun, reduce glare, and improve the daylight luminance within buildings.
