Though he has written genuine poems, like "The Public Man" -- "His words rise, like water/Twice used, from the cistern pump/And then go out in a wavering line/As beagles run, intent on catching rabbits" -- he agreed most pols were dead to real poetry.
Gael García Bernal is the hotshot ad executive charged with running the "No" campaign, intent on proving a negative and selling the vote like so much soap powder.
If you do run, the intent should be to place as much distance between yourself and the elephant.
There was a striking originality and a purity of intent running through the music: it played itself out in quietly intense, trembly trances.
The couples never meet (Mr. Paskaljevic has said that the pairs of actors never met either until the 2009 Venice Film Festival), but they certainly have a lot in common, especially a knack for running into people intent on denying them the simple pleasures of love and hope.
The Powering The Welsh Economy report is its first statement of intent, running to 41 pages.
Ronald Reagan did not officially announce his 1980 campaign until November 1979 — but he was running for all intents and purposes from early on in 1979.
Reagan was quietly intent on running for president.
Christie, intent on running for office, made corruption his central issue.
But at this time, we are very much intent upon running.
