The driving force is always Richie, whom Crowe plays with shambling, low-key intensity.
The Brendels played Beethoven with low-key intensity that kept the focus on the music, and their performance was fully collaborative, with the cello and piano lines as full partners in the dialogue.
Troy Cook, a baritone, brought out the lyricism in the two settings without overplaying it, singing instead with a low-key intensity that was abetted by Mr. Hersch's equally introspective performance at the piano.
This is initially funny, but the woman lip-syncs with such low-key intensity that it feels as if she were channeling Mr. Clay, who, in turn, sounds as if he were channeling the heart-wringing lamentation of a man who murdered the only woman he ever loved.
Jack (played by Kiefer Sutherland with low-key intensity and a notable lack of vanity) is on leave from his job, unkempt and despondent because the events that tangled his family in the assassination attempt also caused the death of his wife.
Mr. Descas's low-key intensity imbues the setup with a shiver of menace — despite the unhurried pace, it feels as if something heavy were at stake — an air of unease that's counterbalanced by the dryly amusing fashion in which the Creole's sidekick (Jean-François Stévenin) translates the orders.
Matt (played with disarming, low-key intensity, if not Hirschian perfection, in Briarcliff Manor by Danton Stone) has traveled from St . Louisto a farm near Lebanon, Mo., to see Sally Talley (the luminous Margot White, who also played the role at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton in 2008) and persuade her to marry him.
This action is a low key sign to tone down the intensity of whatever is happening between your pet and you.
Capello, like every other manager, has to work hard in the effort to ensure intensity from his squad on a low key occasion.
