One quiet morning, she and her students were intently working on puppets inside a softly lighted studio at the college.
The junior orchestra opened the program, and then the main group played, intently working its way through Schubert, Gounod, and Bizet.
They're hugely entertaining, Amin-Smith excitedly bopping about with his fiddle, Chatto beaming serenely behind her stand-up electric cello, the Patterson brothers intently working their instruments behind them.
In other words, within a group of talented people, what separated the best from the rest was how long and how intently they worked.
At the same time, she worked intently on her writing.
The team worked intently as flood-gauge readings were projected onto walls.
Sean M. Simmons, who was a Navy adviser at the Penn unit, said Midshipman Mosko was drawn to the field and worked intently to be selected.
In the small, dim room, four sets of child weavers worked intently, producing rugs in traditional Afghan designs for sale in bazaars in Quetta and other Pakistani cities.
But at the Upper East Side party Ms. Zomorodi attended, the stylist "who shall remain nameless" worked intently, deftly shaping another guest's blond bob, with little small-talk.
For the past four months my office has worked intently on a daily basis with the Development Corporation, along with the state and city and the competing institutions to explore a variety of configurations.
