Andrew Porter was a fastidious writer, a shy, intensely learned and lovable person, his glasses usually waiting to be wrinkled higher up his nose.
Irish dance ideas apart, the choreography of "Roaratorio" is Joycean in its neologisms (you couldn't put a Cunningham jig straight into "Riverdance"), its structural looseness, its sense of omnium-gatherum inclusiveness, its intensely learned references to tradition and its light references to folk culture.
I think that we are primed even more intensely for learning when we're mindful during an emotionally vulnerable moment.
Tall, quiet, infinitely courteous and intensely eager to learn, Prince Robert, 33, is the great-grandson of Clarence Dillon, the American financier who bought Haut-Brion in 1935.
Earlier in the day, he sobbed intensely when he learned of Mrs. Cohen's death, but he just kept blinking when he was told that his mother had died, Mr. Feuerstein said.
Above all, Munro writes about men and women who live long enough, or intensely enough, to learn profound truths about the people closest to them.
Mr. Wolfson, who is intensely competitive, reacted glumly upon learning about Mr. Lazio's high-tech operation.
Intensely inquisitive, Guardiola was always learning - from pioneers like Cruyff and Lillo, from his spells in Qatar, Italy and Mexico.
Like many of my co-workers, I felt lucky to be working in an industry I loved so intensely, and glad to be learning new things about how games were made.
"I'm learning why people care so intensely," Gallego said.
