We all know that intensely human matters contribute: directorial taste, personal talent, discipline, health and character.
Mr. Weaver is known as intensely driven and impatient with underlings who do not work hard enough to suit him.
Mr. Preljocaj, 56, is one of France's foremost contemporary dance choreographers, known for intensely physical, formally complex pieces that often invoke narrative without making it explicit.
From his first days at Apple in 1998, Mr. Cook, who is known as intensely private, worked in the shadow of Mr. Jobs and other prominent leaders.
The Senate is, as everyone knows, an intensely collegial club, where members of widely divergent views generally manage to coexist in an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual respect.
Simon is a photographer and installation artist known for intensely researched, large-scale projects that blur the line between social documentary and contemporary art.
Even by the standards of the Cuomo world, where loyalty is highly prized and grudges long kept, Mr. Percoco is known as intensely devoted to Mr. Cuomo and quick to respond to slights, real or perceived.
Marchesa, the label of the designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, is known for intensely gorgeous dresses and the sense of drama they impart on a red carpet, like that unforgettable wacky, wadded-up tissue mini worn by Heidi Klum back at the Emmys.
The first was Karl Amadeus Hartmann's "Tanzsuite" (1931), a light-spirited, zesty quintet by a composer best known for intensely emotional scores like the "Concerto Funèbre," and for having removed himself from German public musical life as a protest during the Nazi years.
Creators Digipedi bring an element of jarring visual abstraction to K-POP, a scene known for intensely sugary production and a general rule of extravagance on all fronts.
