Sentence examples for with focused intensity from inspiring English sources

His own principal instrument was soprano saxophone, which he played with focused intensity.

Ms. Parnas played it with focused intensity, attention to Hindemith's constantly changing textures and an appealing touch of wildness when the music was at its most heated.

The bartender, Christine Jeanine Nielsen, worked with focused intensity as she mixed her signature riffs on classic cocktails: pisco sours rounded off with earthy beet juice, Aviation "snowball" cocktails served over finely crushed ice.

She brings colour to the depths of emotions with focused intensity, best of all on Epic's haunting, melancholic "Don't Do It", or otherwise lays bare those dramas, as on "Serpents", when she sings: "You enjoy sucking on dreams/ so I will fall asleep with someone other than you".

Svrcek played the sonata with focused intensity.

My daughter studied the world around her with focused intensity.

And Ms. Gunn digs into the play's meatier material — the sudden death of Pierre, and Marie's subsequent, scandalous affair with Langevin — with a focused intensity that enlivens the play's later scenes.

At the show's opening-night performance on Friday, this peerless ensemble created by Mr. Marsalis made period jazz come to life with a focused intensity and rhythmic savvy that left me open-mouthed with wonder.

Previews and Openings After Midnightt' (in previews; opens on Nov. 3) Reviewing "Cotton Club Parade" in The New York Times in 2011, Stephen Holden called it "thrilling," adding that the show at City Center "made period jazz come to life with a focused intensity and rhythmic savvy that left me open-mouthed with wonder".

Everything is played with a focused intensity and a sense of risk-taking that make for compulsive listening.

But he approached everything "with such focused intensity that he drew criticism as a lightning rod draws electricity".