Sentence examples for intensely played from inspiring English sources

While neither was ejected, the exchange was a flash point for an intensely played final quarter.

Set against dramatic scenery, rugged wranglers with weathered faces lived intensely, played hard and smoked contentedly.

Most of the first-game crowd stayed to watch D.C. United-San Jose, another intensely played game with a similar ending, an injury-time goal that lifted San Jose, 3-2.

Their most striking similarity is that each stars an actor whose performance is so intensely played and thoroughly inhabited, it can feel like psychosis, possession, a bit of both.

When Richard points to his marriage license, framed on the wall, he's curtly told by the sheriff, "That's no good here". Sheriff Garnett Brooks (intensely played by Marton Csokas) and others in the Virginia legal system are not portrayed as drooling bigots but rather as individuals who genuinely believe that this dreadful system of racial separation is what God mandated.

Almond, slight, singular and always intensely intense, plays an Everyman figure alone in an almost empty city, conjured in director Stewart Laing's nifty design by a forest of music stands with absent musicians, and a stage within stage that suggests not only the closed playhouses, but also the houses in which the infected are walled up.

Reduced volume satisfied the needs of Classical style; intensely beautiful playing implied bigger, more serious matters.

Everyone is isolated, intensely rivalrous, playing out their ambitions on a social-Darwinist battleground.

There, one of his instructors was Fred Hersch, a pianist whose intensely meditative playing style influenced him.

Mr. Katsumatsu's intensely disciplined playing and singing contrast evocatively with the largely irreverent tone of the evening.

But a not insignificant portion of the show was just the band's core four, harmonizing intensely and playing their instruments with ferocity.