Then, very fast, after a pause, a Godard confession of intensity: "Talking about amateurishness, of course, if one wants to make a movie about one's daughter, no CBS or NBC is going to let you, but in Grenoble — we came here because we like mountains — in Grenoble you do what you want".
The Hilton hotel in Athens makes the perfect backdrop for high-intensity talks.
A respectable stage actor before he became 007, he brings the same fierce intensity to talking that he does to zipping across moving trains and zapping supervillains.
We will also assume that the intensity of talking depends on the similarity of the municipalities, as they are more likely to have interests in common.
He could dazzle his friends with the intensity of his talk, the "geysers of talk".
Yet his rather owlish manner gives way to frightening intensity when he talks of threats to his firm's intellectual property.
He is twenty-eight years old but exudes a quiet force that seems to have accrued over a much longer life; his face quivers with intensity when he talks about Ebola.
Given the stakes, as well as the length (18 months on and off) and the intensity of the talks, diplomats here argue that the splendour and comfort of the surroundings are appropriate.
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Every now and then the intensity lifts – "You talk to people in prison, and you listen to them talking, and you think, fucking hell, he should be locked up! Oh yeah, he is," – but his vulnerability is always there in the watchful tension of his gaze, and the way he hugs himself with folded arms.
"First, we didn't start the game with the intensity we'd talked about all week," Van Gundy said.
