All that intense hand-eye coordination and blinkered focus cleared my mind of niggling minutiae.
It was an exhilarating time, he recalled, when the intense hand-to-hand combat among small software companies led to remarkably rapid technological innovation.
In the powerful and intense hand-coloured prints now purchased by Tate, we see how real colouristic brilliance, as well as a magnificent graphic boldness, enabled Blake to impose his unique vision on history.
Yet the specter of a strike has not spurred the kind of intense hand-wringing evident in the apartment buildings below 96th Street, high-rises and historic landmarks that, unlike Riverbend, offer doormen and an array of specialized services.
The intense, hand-talking, lifetime bureaucrat is trying to put out the largest financial fire since the 1930s, and wouldn't you know, he's picked up a lot of critics in that effort.
Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan, said: "Earlier witnesses put it that you were intense, hands on.
Although initially some progress was made, the Germans managed to hold Orsonga throughout December amidst intense hand-to-hand fighting.
Other officers too had noticed his absence and when Lord George Paget of the 4th Hussars, one of the last to return after some intense, hand-to-hand fighting, encountered a "composed" Cardigan, he challenged him to account for himself.
Intense hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches continued until 13 30, when the Ottoman trench line on the western side of Beersheba (stretching from the Khalasa-to-Beersheba Khalasa-to-Beersheba Khalasa-to-Beershebathe noroad was captured.
