She was propositioned from dawn to dusk, and she found the degree and intensity of attention from male soldiers to be overwhelming.
They gave him back to me with an imperative intensity of attention, and a sense that at that moment, it was the most important book in the world.
We have been surprised by the scale and intensity of attention our work has garnered around the world since the New York Times profiled it last week.
In the interview he presented a laundry list of reasons that his adventures in cyberspace generated what he apparently believed was a puzzling intensity of attention.
"If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention".
Skempton's modest English brevity might be worlds apart from Tarkovsky's epic Russian grandeur, but both are searching, through stillness, for what the film-maker described as a "special intensity of attention" from their audience.
