"look intensely" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It means to gaze or stare at something with strong concentration or focus. Here is an example sentence: She looked intensely at the painting, trying to decipher the artist's hidden message.
The animosity between Saakashvili and Putin made the summer war look intensely personal.
Yet the results look intensely, eccentrically aestheticized: craft as art, and vice versa.
They share perhaps a certain instinct for rawness as an element in dance, or, at any rate, those qualities that do not look intensely schooled.
"I hang about outside the front door smoking, doing my best to look intensely literary," he wrote me from a four-month teaching stint in New Zealand.
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller, who also directed Mr. Keach's film debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," the performers manage to look intensely earnest even as the production grows more and more pointless.
The hour-long conversation forms the soundtrack to Byrne's imagery, with the three artists answering questions on "the evolution of the new abstraction", while on the screen three actors in a radio studio drink whiskey, smoke cigarettes, look intensely at one other and conspicuously do not ever speak the dialogue in the recording.
Simon Rattle looked intensely happy.
The entire physique of each performer looked intensely motivated.
In almost all of them he looked intensely self-possessed, exuding gravity even in repose.
His appearance contrasts markedly with his verbal manner: he looks intensely – improbably – relaxed.
On one wall is a big framed black-and-white photograph — an aerial shot, taken at night — of the twin towers, looking intensely romantic.
