Stories and novels, Walter Mosley once observed, "are entertainments that help us cope with the intense pressures mortality brings".
They had sights to see, minds to broaden, effusions to emit ("My mind was smitten with a feeling of sublimity almost too intense for mortality," gushed Emma Willard, who would eventually found her eponymous school in upstate New York) and journals to fill with ecstatic observations about the Louvre, the cuisine and the weather.
Industrial fishing has been identified as a cause for life history changes in many harvested stocks, mainly because of the intense fishing mortality and its size-selectivity.
The intense fishing mortality imposed on Atlantic cod in Icelandic waters during recent decades has resulted in marked changes in stock abundance, as well as in age and size composition.
John Betjeman, poet laureate from 1972 to 1984, shared both Larkin's intense consciousness of mortality and his gracefully versified nostalgia for 19th- and early 20th-century life.
By the following spring, densities of adults were more than three times higher in the Cape Foulweather region, implicating intense post-recruitment mortality in the Cape Perpetua region as the cause of regional differences in adult densities.
Suddenly, she couldn't have children, she had no control over her body's reaction to this intense medicine, and mortality became a more sensitive conversation topic than it had been in our glee-filled Glee Club years.
Bathed in a golden light in the altar area of St. Mark's, Ms. Johnson evokes an enlightened ideal before compressing her body into shriveled mortality: an intense dance, intensely performed.
Approximately 11% of the catchment area was severely burnt by intense fire, where vegetation mortality is higher.
