Intense, nail-biting work, slogged out in motivational seminars and therapy sessions, meditation retreats and airport bookstores.
It's something in the way he blinks faster when he gets animated, in the twinkly good looks semi-subsumed by an intense, nail-biting intellect.
The extra levels are fiendishly challenging, and most of them are speed-run time trials that box the player into an intense, nail-shredding gaming experience.
She first became known for small, strangely enchanted paintings of historical heroes (Napoleon, for example) and rock stars (Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain), rendered in colors as intense as nail polish.
Mitch Nelson, the Special Forces captain, takes on the role of leading man in this huge cast (a list of the book's key players runs to more than 100 names), but the author sketches Nelson and his comrades in such bland macho superlatives that they all tend to blend into one intense, hard-as-nails G.I. Joe.
It depicts a black woman – topless, intense, fretting angrily – pounding nails into the skeleton of an enormous ship.
The German-Austrian actor's brilliant performance as the Jew-hunting SS agent Hans Landa provides both a screen villain worthy of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the genre's best and one of the most nail-bitingly intense opening sequences I've ever seen.
The building's "autopsy" included intense scrutiny of every component from nails to beams to the smallest screw to note what had failed and what had not.
The Hill points out that during her run at the Republican presidential nomination, Bachmann upped her style game with her impossibly bouncy hair, the clickity-clack fake nails and the intense makeup (done, the Hill notes, by Fox News Channel makeup artist Tamara Robertson).
Although Roberts's sexual identity was the worst kept secret in rugby league, he was still under intense pressure to put the final nail in the coffin and come out publicly.
