Mr Cameron must therefore hope that the majority of migrants who choose Britain as their destination in 2014 are as intent on working as Mr Spiresau.
How to Eat is as intent as ever on settling (as if), the best way to eat the nation's favourite dishes.
Unlike the comrades in "Band of Brothers," a series that was as intent on the bonds of fellowship as the trials of combat, these three were not best friends who got one another through the war.
It opens (in black-and-white, of course) in Kansas in 1905, where a second-rate fairground magician (James Franco) is as intent on fooling local beauties as he is on fooling his meagre audiences.
Squatting before the fireplace, Mr. Glider was as intent as a surgeon -- a very filthy surgeon -- as he sent a small metal twisting brush skyward on a long rod to clean out the cavity.
If he disciplines himself to be as intent on enriching the world as on enriching himself, he could write a constructive and surprising last chapter to this most novelistic of modern presidencies.
Gates observed that Clinton was widely perceived as Mrs. Jellyby, the character in Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" who is as "intent on improving humanity as she is cavalier toward actual human beings . . . the zealous reformer with a heart as big as all Antarctica".
Mrs. Jellyby, you may recall, is the Dickens character in "Bleak House" who is as intent on improving humanity as she is cavalier toward actual human beings; thus she heartlessly neglects her own family while high-mindedly pursuing charity abroad — "telescopic philanthropy," in Dickens' classic phrase.
And Donny Ross's pursuit of Ann was as intent and tense as a stalking cat's: invisible to everyone else, it seemed to her to flash through all the disparate, hazy successive phases of the afternoon like a sparking, dangerous live wire.
"Breaking Bad" is as intent as any show since "The Sopranos" on making its audience realize the monstrous man they've been watching all along.
