After performing an intensely packed sequence, the dancers walk away, seemingly dropping out of character.
And above all, the spectacle of the young Icelandic composer Kjartan Sveinsson and his fellow artists drifting across the waters of the Arsenale in Venice, performing an intensely moving lament for the drowned sailors of the past: a ritual crossing of the bar.
Despite the fact that it will be a closed set (even Creed will leave the studio for each take), he foresees more difficulties in trying to get people to perform this intensely personal act than in persuading people to throw up - although the inhabitants of LA have proved more than willing.
Bathed in a golden light in the altar area of St. Mark's, Ms. Johnson evokes an enlightened ideal before compressing her body into shriveled mortality: an intense dance, intensely performed.
Many groups performed songs with intensely ideological positions, and much of the repertoire was in the vernacular kwéyòl language.
Nearly everyone who loved Chesnutt's music loved it intensely; his lyrics performed the rare trick of communicating both hallucinatory intensity and an offhanded, almost conversational quality.
At the other is a disturbing heat that suggests a man performing from an intensely private core.
Make no mistake, France have enough talented players to think they should be making some kind of positive impression in Brazil, but the impetus to gather as much momentum as possible ahead of a tournament on home soil – where expectation to perform will be intensely magnified – is important.
Furthering the sense of sameness is the film's cleverest device: with one exception, all the voices we hear apart from Thewlis's are performed by one actor, the intensely creative Tom Noonan (you may remember him as Wild Bill in Manhunter and the guy with the bespoke bank heist in Heat).
Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar is an intensely affecting set of songs performed by musicians in their later years.
