Sentence examples for sustained intensity of from inspiring English sources

The stylistic stripping away of love leaves this novel lacking in the sustained intensity of The Bluest Eye or Beloved.

Here too the earlier work seemed the more fiercely exploratory, although the sustained intensity of Bartok's score still trumps Webern's short movements.

No vice-presidential search process can match the sheer sustained intensity of a two-year presidential campaign when it comes to the scrutiny given to candidates.

In London the Metropolitan police defended their policing of the relay, during which 37 people were arrested, but admitted they had been surprised by the sustained intensity of the protests.

The soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, as Gustavo's platonic lover Amelia, had a weak start, her big Act II scene lacking the sustained intensity of her finest performances; only in "Morrò, ma prima in grazia" did she finally glory in the dark colors of her voice.

This is one reason why, among the 1980's retrospectives of Abstract Expressionist painters, only the 1982 Pollock exhibition in Paris has the sustained intensity of "The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect," at the Cincinnati Art Museum through March 2.

This was a stunning display of sustained intensity.

Where to begin with these masterpieces of sustained intensity?

"There are few who are capable of such sustained intensity and eloquence while playing so quietly and contemplatively, as revealed in her series of Schubert sonata recordings," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians reports in its entry on her, "although to some she has made the composer retreat to a world that is too ethereal and idealized".

The shot has the sustained intensity and the compositional intricacy of Robert Altman's best work.

I haven't seen a performance of such sustained intensity all year.