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Start with the complex, intensely mineral white, then move on to the fragrant, rosé-like fanino.
This was what Dodd calls her "unresolved sadness" and is perhaps a key to both her intensely private nature and also the miraculous intuition of her work, in which she finds people out with her seeing eye and her camera lens.
And in the 18th century, French high society became intensely amorous, a culture of desire that is gloriously immortalised in the art of Watteau and Fragonard.
But if he doesn't, it will come to seem like an omen on a night when the public reminded the politicians that, however watchful and untrusting voters might be, they are also intensely , even ruthlessly engaged.
Recent Labour governments have been intensely aware of the media's influence on public opinion – hence their concentration on crime, refugees and asylum seekers.
I went for a short walk to the shops yesterday, and in just those few minutes I bumped into two people worrying intensely about how to get everyone to vote Labour, and what hell it will be if the wretched Tories get in again.
It was, according to the post-election MacKenzie headline that Murdoch disliked intensely , the Sun that won it (for John Major).
In the intensely debated Environment Award sponsored by CAFOD, Guardian environment editor John Vidal triumphed for his article Sold Down the River, which appeared in the Guardian Weekend Magazine.
Still, a lot of these problems could be forgiven if Gravity didn't commit the worst sin of all: being intensely boring.
The whole thing has such an unmistakeable air of murder-suicide about it – at one point the younger rabbit even says "Goodnight, nobody", which is easily the most upsetting thing I've ever seen written in any book – that the whole thing seems like an intensely misjudged novelisation of Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent.
Is it a coincidence that Ukip is suddenly plunged into the same sort of intensely personal in-fighting that has been disrupting its far nastier rival, the French Front National, across the Channel?
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The adverb "intensely" primarily functions to modify verbs and adjectives , emphasizing the degree or strength of an action or quality. Ludwig AI confirms its role in amplifying descriptions, as showcased in examples such as "He pursued his studies intensely" and "an intensely private man."
Expression frequency: Very common
