Except for some slightly gutsier drives on the G string, Ms. Mutter's tone was intensely fine, brilliant and pure, with the shine of quick, rather wide vibrato.
And yet so intensely felt — and intensely fine — are the performances of Laura Linney and Brian d'Arcy James, playing journalists reeling from the trauma of covering the Iraq war, that the play's subtly accumulating power struck me with unexpected force.
Looking at her, it's not hard to detect the author of the richly empathetic The God of Small Things, her debut, Booker-prize winning novel about family life in Kerala, that John Updike described as a "massive interlocking structure of fine, intensely felt details".
So the usage, they're coming back, but they're not using it as intensely — and that's fine, because that's really the point," he says, adding: "We've got them embedded in the community, they feel like they belong, they've taken some of those relationships and are now engaging with those people offline or through Facebook or through Twitter — but we helped them get introduced to those people.
Mazzie is giving a thoroughly fine and intensely moving performance.
"NHS trust chief executives tell us they are intensely frustrated by these fines and see them as shortsighted, counterproductive and reflecting a sense of denial about how serious the problems facing hospital, community, mental health and ambulance services really are," said Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers.
Lincoln has a big heart, and Mr. Haysbert's intensely emotional performance is the finest of his career.
Calgary Herald writer Bruce Weir said the episode "is Homicide at its finest: brilliantly written, intensely acted and continuously surprising".
Giambattista Valli's collection was intensely Roman in the way the fine fabrics stroked the body, curving in at the waist and often swelling to fullness at the back.
The fine tenor Gregory Kunde sang intensely as Tamas, whose cry for liberty in an aria is said to have incited a demonstration at an early performance.
Funny, unapologetic and intensely readable, his novel has a fine sense of itself as a performance rather than something ominously lapidary.
