Sentence examples for willful intensity from inspiring English sources
In highlighting the poignant and painful struggles that many great actors faced throughout their careers, Harvey suggests the peculiarity of an art that's essentially involuntary, despite the fanatically willful intensity with which actors pursue their artistic labors and their place in the industry.
For all its willful, shaking-and-shouting intensity, Black Snake Moan never lives up to its soundtrack, which is as saturated with the blues as Hustle & Flow was with the crunk sounds of Southern hip-hop.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.
This smoldering wild thing, whose recent portrayal of a Spanish courtesan in Catherine Breillat's film "The Last Mistress" burns a hole in the screen, specializes in willful sexual conquerors whom she invests with an intensity that is as scary as it is magnetic.
These strange, exquisite prose poems — a "crystalline jumble," as John Ashbery calls them in the preface to his new translation (Norton; $24.95), which, like the work itself, is sometimes willful but often has its own crystal purity — are intensely visual, bringing before your eyes fleeting images that have the oddness, the intensity, and the subterranean logic of dreams.
When Hesther bites Rohan in (feigned) self-defense, he responds with delight and admiration ("I never thought I'd find a woman with a spirit as willful as mine!"); the climactic scene involves the use of a horsewhip, applied with an intensity that transcends the purely punitive.
In this light, Weber's political virtue resides not simply in a subjective intensity of value commitment nor in a detached intellectual integrity, but in their willful combination in a unified soul.
He spoke with great intensity and fluency about his dealings with various banks and hedge funds, pointing to their "willful blindness" and their failure to examine discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information available to them.
No more willful blindness.
