Sentence examples for quite intent on from inspiring English sources

She is quite intent on making people feel at home.

I'm always quite intent on switching gears radically".

The doctors were told HCA's regional executives were "quite intent on pursuing this program at least for the time being and fully expects us to comply.

Mr. Roy said he was "quite intent" on buying a Vespa for a long time "because they are fun, and because of vanity," but they weren't available until recently.

"I think the senior leadership of the United States is quite intent on building a good, solid relationship with the People's Republic of China," Mr. Armitage told reporters, brushing aside the hawkish, guarded stance of some in Congress and inside the administration.

It seems the man was quite intent on making sure that his co-workers believed in the literal truth of Jesus' words in the Gospel of John: "I am the way, the truth, and the life.

I did not find him theatrical; he seemed to me quite unselfconscious, and intent on his work with a gusto that amounted almost to voracity.

It's quite a statement of intent, on Bier's part, to start on such a note of elemental cruelty.

Once these quantitative imagery values were established, Paivio was able to show, in various experimental designs, that words with high imagery values were consistently remembered significantly better than those with lower ones, quite regardless of any conscious intent on the subjects' part to form relevant images (Paivio, 1971, 1983, 1991a).

I'm not sure Curtis is quite there yet: anyone that intent on arranging the tendrils of climbing rose that adorn his hero's parents' beach-front cottage evidently doesn't feel ready to renounce perfectionism and all its discontents.

Rather, they are intent on personal aggrandizement.