For all their sweetness, the quality of a deeper attentiveness gives these photographs a special intensity.

"Nothing is real," she sang in a husky contralto, giving the line a startling intensity.

Gormley is a master of space, and he gave the performance areas a hallucinatory intensity.

Edmund is very athletic, has a feel for the game and gives us a high intensity on the defensive end.

The two had given her an intensity she had never had before.

But his continued use of a strong blue gives his work an overall dreamlike intensity.

A white students' pep rally is given a frightening intensity.

His way of speaking, stilted and strange, gave the words an intensity his tone lacked.

This gave the character an intensity of appeal that was at the time something quite new.

His gargantuan difficulties haunted us, giving our laughter an end-of-time intensity.