In the end it was just that intensity that critics -- and now audiences -- are keying into.
"He's got a gift for really keying into the disenfranchised, and the power of the people," Mr. Ridgely said.
"O.K.," I agreed, slowly keying into the secret politics of an American company trying to claim French ground.
"They are not keying into what he is presenting as important material," says Ms. Healy, who tells her students to notice the lecturer's gestures and volume of voice.
"Their thinking is keying into one of those half-lost traditions in British politics, which is the grassroots community activist, co-operativist or associationist tradition.
A deeply satisfying massage in itself, it's also an emotional experience keying into some atavistic urge buried deep in our moisture-loving genes.
In an interview in the Gap showroom in Chelsea last week, Mr. Robinson said he could best describe his vision for Gap as one of "optimism," keying into an emotion conveyed by the company's past advertising campaigns that spotlighted bright colors and made wearing khaki seem like a swingy choice.
By keying into Microsoft Office, it's created what it calls a "Git for documents".
Patel and Beattie say that they're working on ways in which the Kiwi could help with early alerts for health problems – detecting heart attacks in advance, for instance, by keying into early warning sings.
The startup is keying into the idea that content farms have become the bane of content production, spamming search engines with low-quality, SEO-optimized content that takes up space rather than inform.
The app works by keying into users' existing calendaring systems, allowing them to update and share items either from within the app or from outside applications — like Google Calendar, for instance — and then syncs up all updates between the couples and their calendars of choice.
