As often happens on a busy night at the hotel, the front desk was obscured by a line of people blithely nursing drinks, babbling into cell phones or listening more or less intently to the winsome singer, Lisa Miskovsky.
Small grasslike plants at Whiteman are normally favoured, the Xanthorrhoea species may have been browsed less intently because they were not as apparent to the herbivores as larger species.
"It's not pretty or glamorous," he says intently, talking less about his battered face than the training ground at Oadby as his gaze sweeps across the muddied field and back to the brick laundry room where we've been huddling against the cold.
Exercising his usual restraint, the actor (working as his own producer) pruned every redundant word from his own role, making Bullitt perhaps the most taciturn hero of the 60s – McQueen knew that the less he said, the more intently the audience focused on him.
The relationship between the C.I.A. and the I.S.I. was far less complicated when the United States and Pakistan were intently focused on one common goal: kicking the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan.
The original, which has sold one and a half million copies, according to its publisher, W. W. Norton, has been read by more or less everyone on Wall Street, often intently.
Running Wednesday through next Sunday, it's less a fully coherent statement than an intently messy region of inquiry, bursting with collaborative energy and artistic disclosure.
Of a writer friend of the Calloways, whose first book was an unexpected success, he writes, "Everyone listened to him just a little more intently these days, as he listened less attentively to everyone else".
Zuckerberg explained that his company was intently focused on whether more ads meant less engagement.
Those who had stayed on listened intently to the roar of the new V10 engine, a less striking sound than the soprano scream of its 12-cylinder predecessor.
They're all grouped more or less as Mr. Marti found them in storage, with St. John staring intently at the drums, and Aesop looking off to the side like a distracted parent.
