Don Paterson's new prose work is learned, intensely reflective, shot through with illuminating perceptions and sometimes baffling and sometimes maddening.
So, try to learn as intensely as time will permit you to.
After I learned to read, I read intensely but intermittently.
Your prologue warns about some great rabbis who learned really intensely about this material and had visions of God on a throne, and then went mad or became a heretic or died.
And I learned how intensely it is possible to love a theater and to believe in a city, so much so that some people may devote most of their adult lives, sometimes as volunteers, to keeping an old theater alive.
"In short, I dislike some Americans, few British, but could learn to hate you intensely.
They might learn something from the intensely strategic choices that go into an effective cross-examination.
This may not seem like a personal challenge on its face, but I think I'll learn more by focusing intensely on these issues than I would by doing something completely separate.
The concert programs are subject to change since resident musicians, who work intensely learning pieces, do not want to perform them until they feel ready.
Andrew Porter was a fastidious writer, a shy, intensely learned and lovable person, his glasses usually waiting to be wrinkled higher up his nose.
Irish dance ideas apart, the choreography of "Roaratorio" is Joycean in its neologisms (you couldn't put a Cunningham jig straight into "Riverdance"), its structural looseness, its sense of omnium-gatherum inclusiveness, its intensely learned references to tradition and its light references to folk culture.
