Sentence examples for so intent on taking from inspiring English sources

I was so intent on taking notes, in fact, I missed much of the physical demonstrations.

DOH! Licsko has intrinsically captured the very dangerous essence of distracted walking in his 5' x 4' oil on canvas "OMG-LOL!" which depicts a man on a city street who's so intent on taking a smartphone photo of the mushroom cloud ahead that he's missing the whole point, that nuclear devastation is underway.

In fact, he is a Jain, so intent on not taking life that he will only eat an apple that has fallen off the tree without being picked and won't drink from a bedside glass of water in case he swallows insects that have landed on it.

But White seems so intent on getting us to take Rogers seriously that he plays down the humor.

And that, oddly, turns out to be the problem: the show, written by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader and directed by Mr. Belgrader, is so intent on demonstrating how seriously it takes the topic that the material is not allowed to simply speak for itself.

But he adds: "He was so intent on that one thing, on collecting data.

"Maharishi was so intent on participating and hearing, and he took great satisfaction.

Mr. Gore was so intent on reaching as many voters as possible that he insisted on taking his motorcade today into the teeth of an ice storm in Berlin in northern New Hampshire.

Unfortunately, as in so many other things, this government seems intent on taking us backwards.

In fact, the show seems so intent on pushing a soft reset on Richie that it takes Devon out of the picture entirely.

Years ago, when Tony Blair was fresh in Downing Street, I asked one of New Labour's top economic advisers why the Blair government, which took over in 1997, was so intent on establishing a reputation as fiscally responsible and socially moderate.