When Martínez opposes the Yankees, the intensity soars even higher.
"Gospel Cha Cha," a Langston Hughes setting, featured lively Haitian-inspired melodies, call-and-response choral writing and a grand solo part for the baritone Stephen Salters, whose soaring delivery intentionally conjured the intensity and singsong cadence of great black orators.
— JIM LUTTRELL Their intensity and quality soaring ever higher, Federer and Djokovic remain toe-to-toe through five games in the fifth set, exchanging first-strike blasts that would seem to dispel previous claims that the court was playing slow this year.
The climactic gunfight, with its three minutes of intro music and flashbacks (including the big revelation) and two seconds of gunplay, achieves an almost orgasmic intensity through Morricone's soaring, slashing score.
The soprano Christine Brewer sang splendidly, floating the soaring solo lines yet bringing some Wagnerian intensity even to hushed pianissimos.
The hastily organized and fast-spreading protest, which the estimated 2,500 participants coordinated by mobile telephones and e-mail, caught fire because of the intensity of feeling against the soaring price of gasoline and diesel fuel.
The soaring heat, which has retained much of its intensity despite the end of the El Niño climatic event, is unprecedented in at least 1,000 years and probably much longer, scientists have said.
The soaring economic, military and human costs reflect the intensity of the fighting in the breakaway republic and the inability of the Russian forces to bring the conflict to an early close.
And an ongoing American drought is sending commodity prices soaring and threatens to match the Dust Bowl in intensity.
On Sunday night the cast was anchored by Margarita De Arellano in an excellent performance as Lulu, infusing Berg's soaring spiky vocal lines with great lyricism and dramatic intensity.
