As the first bird call came over the car speakers, I saw him searching intently out the back window.
At the ruins of the World Trade Center, Thanksgiving was a day to keep removing debris, to keep pouring water onto the smoldering wreckage, to keep searching intently through the rubble for anything that might be part of a body.
Jean highlights research showing that college grads searching intently for the perfect job tended to earn 20% more, but were not happier than their peers who were content with "good enough".
Russell: Hey Dad, Don't know if Mom shared what I wrote, but this week has been really tough, we lost a sailor over the side in the middle of nowhere, and searched intently for two days, we had aircraft, another ship and helos, but to no avail.
While we hear them howling nightly, we've never seen a coyote so close to the house, but with summer's bounty waning and winter's scarcity just around the corner, they're searching more intently for food.
The first is a small, roughly two-by-three-inch picture of a man in a suit standing among rocks on a beach, looking down as two barefoot children beside him search intently for something on the ground.
Just released from "10 years of hospitals and halfway houses," Tom is intently searching for signs of his past, now buried along with the family home under a reservoir.
This man, blinking through the haze of cigarette smoke, intently searching the room for her, rubbing absently at the scar above his eyebrow where, when he was a boy, a schoolmate had hit him with a badminton racquet — this was her man.
Look intently at the other "pupils".
For there I was, standing in a German library, searching for clues, peering intently at a photograph of a boy whose name will likely be forever lost, and replicating the very gesture of decipherment that the fictional character Jacques Austerlitz describes in Sebald's novel.
At Citigroup, he intently searches for the risks and rewards of investing in distressed Japanese debt or buying the investment banking operations of Schroders, the British firm Citigroup acquired in 2000.
