The match was intense and strange.
I have heard people call Burt awkward, but I think what they mean is that he is intense and strange; he's nothing if not confident.
The spectacular central staircase, with its classical caryatids and bunches of stone fruit, is a dreamlike and atmospheric way to go up to the second floor, where Picasso's intense and strange surrealist art holds sway.
Fairy tales are dark and intense and strange," Cunningham tells me.
Skogerson, a 2008 Whitney Biennial artist and MacDowell Colony veteran who currently teaches at MassArt, has a history of capturing the kind of intense isolation Strange Play promises to understand (former subject matter include immense industrial wastelands and the commercial aftermath of Hurricane Ivan).
In real life, in Camden, you don't try that with intense-looking strange guys, no matter how absurdly scrawny they are and how insulting their behaviour is.
A sceptical Ted Hughes, invited to read on the first Arvon course, was taken aback by "the strange, intense euphoria... the voltage of new-found imagination".
They smile when, as Koroleva said, "our arms are burning, our legs are burning, our buns are burning and we get this strange intense pain and cannot control our bodies".
The one whom Kinney mainly latches on to is, like many of his counterparts in this strange, intense, rather stressed-out sub-culture, a troubled soul lacking any sort of settled existence.
Such intense interest is strange since Empire is hardly a blockbuster; it is a dense, 500-page tome by a jailed Italian revolutionary and a previously unheard-of American academic called Michael Hardt.
