Despite critical mockery, the Cure has been commercially successful and intensely adored.
Nyro, vastly influential but only marginally successful, invented an intensely passionate and private, keyboard-based style that borrowed from gospel, folk, jazz, and Broadway.
Of course, not everyone's interest in science is due to an intensely personal reason, but a successful response to an interviewer's question about motivation simply needs to recall the emotions, and the reasoning, behind your decision.
In other words, a successful small company is intensely focused on productivity.
Intensely ambitious, he became a serious and successful student, but his studies were interrupted by the brewing revolt against Great Britain.
Robert Graham has staked out a successful career in that territory, making intensely realistic sculptures of attractive young women.
The successful isolation of radium and other intensely radioactive substances by Marie and Pierre Curie focused the attention of scientists and the public on this remarkable phenomenon and promoted a wide range of experiments.
The C.I.A. and British intelligence services were intensely focused on Libya eight years ago, before and during the successful effort to get Colonel Qaddafi to give up his nuclear weapons program.
Intel is a thriving company with some extremely successful products in an industry sector that's intensely competitive.
