Sentence examples for intent on something from inspiring English sources
"He was intent on something else," looking in one direction and pointing in another.
"These people were intent on something," he said.
I would not have minded the piano version, but this technology has ample benefits for singers and audiences intent on something closer to an orchestral experience, however synthetic.
He was acting a little rough, and she did her best to slow him down, but he was intent on something, and it seemed clear he wasn't going to be slowed by either entreaty or design.
Intent on something more colorful than, say, the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble -- or as Ms. Barth put it, the Blah Blah Blah Quartet -- they considered Red Wheelbarrow, after a short poem by William Carlos Williams.
It doesn't sound like a European producer twisting Congolese music to his own ends; it sounds like the work of a band, albeit one intent on doing something not many bands in 2015 seem that interested in doing – jolting the listener with the shock of the new.
What we said: "It doesn't sound like a European producer twisting Congolese music to his own ends; it sounds like the work of a band, albeit one intent on doing something not many bands in 2015 seem that interested in doing – jolting the listener with the shock of the new," wrote Alexis Petridis, in his lead review for the Guardian.
In their own circumspect way, the members of Mogwai are purists, abandoning song structure not because they want to tear off in search of something new, but because they're intent on creating something even simpler and more intuitive than a song.
The three works on Program A (which included the New York premiere of "past-carry-forward" and last year's gorgeous "Gloria"), seemed to reveal two different companies: one straining to uphold ballet classicism; the other intent on creating something new, and appearing much more at ease, more elated, in the process.
"If you're totally intent on buying something with poor reliability ratings," he added, "in that case, you might get something".
"But I was intent on doing something else".
