But negative experiences are instantly registered and intensely focused on, based on the negativity bias of the brain.
Two romantic comedies, the French "My Wife Is an Actress" and the German "Mostly Martha," registered more intensely because they were informed by autobiography -- one literally, the other spiritually.
In patients with hypochondria, experts say, ordinary discomforts appear to register more intensely than they do for other people.
In patients with hypochondria, ordinary discomforts are paid much more attention and appear to register more intensely than they do for other people.
This lets the lines breathe, and slows the reader so that sound and nuance are more intensely registered.
Mr. Lovett, who the authorities say took the rifles and ammunition from his father's collection of legally registered weapons, was intensely interested in violent video games and so enraptured by the science fiction action film "The Matrix" that he occasionally referred to himself by using the name of its lead character, Neo.
September 11th, Princess Diana's death and the O.J. Simpson trial registered the impact of what happens when humanity is intensely focused on certain events at the same time.
Although pain is an intensely subjective phenomenon, there is growing objective evidence of how pain is registered in the brain.
Although the issue is often painted as partisan, because conservatives are more likely to care intensely about gun rights, Webster said the broader group of voters who are registered as Republicans are more moderate on the issue.
One of the great triumphs of this book is the way that John Boyne manages the shift in register from the intensely concrete inner world of his child narrator - a place where an elder sister's pigtails or the corner of a bedroom window are branded on your inner eye - to something that borders on fable.
Mr. Manischewitz was an intensely private man who avoided using his own name to register in hotels and make restaurant reservations, Dr. Hoffman said.
