The immediacy gained by this approach to text setting is keenly dramatic, like some opera of the imagination, which is the only kind of opera this refined composer could have abided.
We have begun to behave like mobsters, keenly suspicious of places that might be bugged, conducting all of our subterfuge in loud restaurants and lonely parks, where we can meet one on one.
There are some moments of keenly observed comedy, like a cocktail party at which Mr. Harris, egged on by his ambitious, unfaithful wife (Elizabeth McGovern), flatters a bored visiting general played by Dean Stockwell.
I've been keenly watching groups like Sidewalk Labs, which aim to "build products addressing big urban problems".
The assault of Trump on our constitutional foundations is, in fact, daily, insidious, effective, and cannot be bracketed off into the realm of the unthreatening, however keenly, desperately, we would all like to do that, for the sake of our own sanity and civic health — which depends, after all, exactly on not being compelled to pay attention to politics.
Mr. Helm (the late Mr. Helm; he died of a stroke the following March) was a sombre man in his late fifties whose withdrawn manner veiled a nature keenly curious and watchful; he liked to know what was going on.
Nowhere are they felt as keenly as in places like Ciñera, whose very survival is bound to government support.
Extremism is vile and destructive, but that doesn't mean that it isn't also pompous nonsense into which good jokes, keenly deployed, may sail like poisoned arrows.
"It could be me next time" is the thought, unspoken but keenly sensed, which hangs like a sea mist over them.
White House officials say that he has long been keenly aware that he, like no other American president, stood as a potential beacon to the Arab street as the ultimate symbol of the hopes and rewards of democracy.
