Born in a small South Dakota town, Mr. Epp, gangly, boyish-looking and intense, embraces the troupe's most physically and comically demanding roles.
His music might embrace intense, Coltrane-esque laments, hinted funk grooves or sighing love songs but he's also a master of texture who can recycle a shapely phrase with barely perceptible shifts of nuance.
And what I find exceptional about the people who live there is their rare capacity to embrace intense chaos--or what would seem to be chaos to a visitor's eye, and enjoy life with an unmatched depth of gratitude, unfettered by the circus of life dancing all around them.
Obama also embraced the use of covert drone strikes, intense vetting of visa applicants, and the stepped-up use of surveillance technologies, angering many on the left.
Here, both Cupid and Psyche are nudes of intense beauty and their embrace is proof that love conquers all.
It is the Black Swan that presents Nina her greatest challenge -- to break free of her inner walls and embrace the intense power within her.
There was no inherent conflict between intense emotion and world-embracing artifice, between authentic expression and creative simulation.
But a number of the students embraced this intense focus on the future, saying it gave more meaning and direction to their lives than idle hours in front of the television.
The record moves away from the gentle and restful mood of 2013's Nepenthe, instead embracing more intense contrasts.
They were equally determined to start down different roads, embracing an intense spirituality and often moving in the direction of the abstract.
