But they seemed even more intent on revealing depth and maturity.
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He seemed more intent that people not see him at all.
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Turkey, at least until recently, was more intent on ousting Mr. Assad.
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In public view, he seemed far more intent on giving and receiving praise.
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Drawing Hitler with semen, and Kim K in urine, had a little more intent.
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"I am more intent on ending this thing now with my vote," he said.
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China is at present more intent on defusing financial risks than on ginning up GDP.
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Recent Democrats seemed more intent on embracing Wall Street donations than solidarity with the Teamsters.
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But Amazon seems more intent on weathering the storm of negative attention than packing its bags.
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In fact, they seemed more intent on debating their records as attorneys general than anything else.
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Trump, however, drew a greater percentage and now seems even more intent on catering to that constituency.
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Clearly the government, much like the DFS, seems more intent on pursuing personal grudges than on enforcing laws.
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" Don't get caught up in the daily news cycle "We're more intent on finding the best possible companies.
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To my mind, the unions are more intent on protecting jobs for adults than improving schools for children.
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"You see people doing it because they don't understand internet norms and then you see behavior with more intent," Soman explained.
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Meanwhile, Britain seems more intent on defining its own self-imposed isolation through Brexit than embarking on any new global engagement.
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That functionality certainly makes the device a compelling proposition for students who are more intent on taking notes by hand than typing.
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Americans across the country are fighting to stay alive, while Trump acts as if he is more intent on saving the economy.
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The question of religious discrimination found little traction among the conservative justices, who seemed more intent on blunting it than exploring it.
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The more you catastrophize not getting a perfect night's sleep, the more intent you put into it, the harder sleep can become.
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Although Trump's high-profile warm-up acts suggested the president's speech would be about unity, the president was more intent on settling scores.
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Politics may loom in the background in these troubled times, but artists are more intent on using traditional music to get people dancing.
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"At the beginning of this age range, women are more focused," Bhattacharya said, meaning women are more intent on finding the correct partner.
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Vice President Mike Pence in particular seemed more intent on praising the President than delivering useful information to the American public on Friday.
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For now, though, she seems more intent on shaping an overarching message than she does on hammering out what exactly needs to be done.
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While he successfully negotiated a deal for Iran to curb its nuclear program, North Korea only seems more intent on ramping up its own.
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While the impact of such demonstrations can be debated, Brooks seems more intent on depicting these protests as a primal scream of identity politics.
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But in the polarised campaign ahead, parties seem more intent on rallying their own side than on venturing into the increasingly treacherous middle ground.
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Let's not forget, Mr. Obama had to work with an intransigent Congress, that was more intent on stonewalling him than serving the American people.
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On the wall, the president seems more intent on proving to conservatives his commitment to building it than to finding a compromise with Democrats.
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Sadly, as a Rasmussen Reports poll shows, the public believes the media are more intent in creating controversy than informing the public about issues.
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Yet on this day, West was far more intent on discussing the two lottery picks the Clippers have in the N.B.A. draft this June.
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The new Novartis is more intent than rival drug firms on using big data and digital technologies to improve productivity and offer new services.
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Since they got back together in late 2015, they've seemed more intent on enjoying each other's company than making a big official deal of it.
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"If you can expect things will get better, that can carry you far," Wallner said, explaining why Democrats seem more intent on staying in Congress.
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But she's more intent on tracking down Ben (Peter Krause), the vanishing fiancé who conned her out of her savings, her clients — and her heart.
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It seemed that 20-somethings across the city, while politically engaged, seemed more intent on becoming the next Québécois Steve Jobs than in fomenting revolution.
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Israel's leadership seems more intent than ever to rely on the use of excessive force to manage an unjust, oppressive, and entirely unsustainable military occupation.
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New Order has never been showy in their innovation, more intent of combining what they loved—morose pop and club bangers—than expressing willfully avant sentiments.
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Section 1373 specifies no punishment for noncompliance: It is a toothless tiger, passed by a Congress more intent on winning political points than punishing sanctuary cities.
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It's not simply that Americans are more intent on seeking happiness, then -- there's also a high bar for how intense that happiness is supposed to feel.
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The fire made them more intent on doing so, and the tapestries will go on display Tuesday, but not in their former places above the transepts.
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Both the Trumpian populists and the social justice warriors are more intent on denouncing the people they hate than on addressing the concrete problems before them.
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As a self-described Leninist who favors the "deconstruction of the administrative state," Bannon is the perfect advisor for a president more intent on destroying than creating.
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In Montreal, young people seemed more intent on finding the hippest cafe than whether they needed to order a coffee in the language of Shakespeare or Voltaire.
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"For every Trump follower who follows Trump through thick and thin, there is more than one Trump enemy who will be more intent, more determined," Soros told me.
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News outlets reported that the government initially covered-up the severity of the epidemic, describing a government more intent on good PR than the welfare of its people.
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But in an effort to start the day off right with a filling and satisfying breakfast, I wanted to bring a little more intent to my toast game.
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Until then, Democrats will keep swinging for a knockout punch, more intent on taking the President to the mat than they are helping out fellow Americans in need.
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At this point, the Amazon team seems more intent on demonstrating all the different products that can work with the Alexa ecosystem — even those that aren't particularly useful.
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The series' characters, deepened by the divisive second season, longed to come together and find connection, even as the world was ever more intent on keeping them separate.
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The repeal effort has only made Democrats more intent on protecting Obamacare, a law that much of their base doesn't think goes nearly far enough to provide health insurance.
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The presumptive GOP nominee aimed to cast Clinton as a fundamentally corrupt figure who is more intent on catering to moneyed interests than defending the rights of American workers.
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Dragging two estranged sons into the argument — both of whom committed the unforgivable crime of making their own choices — Brian seems more intent on elder abuse than active listening.
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I hope you will join me in doing everything you can to support those more intent on finding common ground than crossing swords with the party across the aisle.
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Instead, Trump has seemed more intent on lobbing accusations at another senator, Blumenthal, who admitted in 2010 to misrepresenting his military service after saying he had been "in" Vietnam.
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It's a movie that seems more intent on participating in the cultural debate about the film in our world than in developing a coherent internal politics of its own.
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Younger members of communities who partake in ayahuasca ceremonies, she said, are more intent on building materially successful lives in a global economy than they are preserving their local rituals.
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Compared to that of traditional brick-and-mortars, the design of the shops tends to be less aggressive about selling and more intent on introducing the brand to new potential customers.
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It seemed more intent on scoping out possibly unethical behavior by a woman whose husband had cheated than on exploring the full dimensions of an undoubtedly brutal period in her life.
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It is also possible that officials, for now, are more intent on curbing fake home schooling, involving parents who pretend to be doing it while illegally sending their children to work.
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Nevertheless, Trump traveled for the third time this week to the UN General Assembly more intent than ever on promoting his America First agenda in the place that appreciates it least.
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Given that he comes out of these encounters asking to see these women again, these scenes seem more intent on his character's humiliation than on showing any degree of understanding regarding consent.
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This doesn't seem likely to change, with the White House seemingly more intent on creating the so-called "Space Force," a new military branch, than investing in a real space exploration program.
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As the evening began to unfold, the overpowering pitching in the Mets-Giants confrontation give way to the tension of the later innings, and the focus on the televisions became more intent.
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They dominated possession, playing almost three times the number of passes than their Asian opponents, and were more intent on creating chances through the midfield rather than just directing long balls toward Ronaldo.
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Electronic "chatter", as well as information from defectors and serving Isis members, underscores that the group is now more intent than ever on exporting chaos to cities such as Rome, Paris, Brussels and London.
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Despite the imposition of unprecedented sanctions against Russia by the Trump administration and Congress over the past year, President Vladimir Putin only seems more intent on causing grievous harm to international peace and stability.
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"She held the proposal off for about three weeks, which I think just made him all the more intent on marrying her," a close friend of John's tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story.
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After two years shadowed by Mr. Mueller, Mr. Trump has the opportunity to reset his presidency, but as he strode with new confidence into a post-Mueller world, he appeared more intent on payback.
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He was angry, combative, sarcastic, and more intent on getting off personal insults and pumping up his impending Senate campaign than actually answering questions or getting Congress or the public any closer to truth.
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He was angry, combative, sarcastic, and more intent on getting off personal insults and pumping up his impending Senate campaign than actually answering questions or getting Congress or the public any closer to truth.
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He is a different style of player at this stage: more intent on shortening points with his improved serve, excellent volleys and advanced court position (when he's not returning serve near the back wall).
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But the navigation bar seemed more intent on promoting features Facebook wanted to be popular, like its Craigslist competitor Marketplace, which I rarely use, rather than its long-standing Events feature, which I access daily.
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In an era where the heads of federal agencies seem more intent on dismantling their agencies, rather than effectively meeting their congressional mandates, states have little choice but to lead on issues important to them.
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"These DCGS program owners seem more intent on protecting their own failed program than on adopting a far superior commercially available technology that has been proven to work," Palantir wrote in its complaint against the US Army.
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But the show seemed more intent on delivering on its "war is hell" theme in the biggest way possible than on crafting a narrative arc that aligned with what we already know about its world and characters.
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But there is no lavish master suite: "It's hard to call an 8-by-11-foot room a master bedroom," joked Mr. Page, who was more intent on providing enough sleeping space for their children and guests.
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"When a government cannot or will not protect its people, and when warring parties seem more intent on enriching and empowering themselves at the expense of their people, the international community has a responsibility to act," he said.
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In making his glasses and skulls, I get the feeling that he is not interested in making art, that he is more intent on looking at something ordinary, which was part of his and everybody else's daily life.
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While Madrid's play was nowhere near the brutal fashion of how José Mourinho used to instruct his players to kick the Catalans, Ramos did at times seem more intent at hacking away at Suárez than at the ball.
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But many analysts have said the Saudis are now more intent on a deal because of their planned public offering of Saudi Aramco next year, and the massive remake of the economy, led by the young deputy crown prince.
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As for the media, there are limited expectations: most are just opinionists acting as journalists, far more intent on driving their own false narratives aligned with their worldview than they are with anything relating to facts or the truth.
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As The Times reported, the president's intelligence officials warned House lawmakers in a briefing that Russia was once more intent on trespassing on our election to help Trump, intent on interfering in both the Democratic primaries and the general.
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Unfortunately for both Spooner and the American people, the American Letter Mail Company was driven out of business by a Congress more intent on maintaining a government monopoly over the mail than on allowing affordable and efficient service to consumers.
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The fact that he would not, and that he seemed more intent on trying to prove that left-wing extremists were just as dangerous, exposed a fundamental lack of sympathy for the fight against racism, xenophobia, nativism, sexism and anti-Semitism.
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In a working world where we are forever multitasking and may be more intent on getting things done rather than ticking and updating progress reports to let people know that we have, adding in automation seems to be an essential development.
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Both governments may want to weaken the United States and its alliances, but Beijing seems more intent than Moscow on bending institutions to meet its interests: Perhaps it hopes to supplant the current international order, but not by completely disrupting it.
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As Lucky bonds with a fellow World War II veteran and, in one lovely scene, slides into an impromptu song at a child's birthday party, the movie is more intent on measuring the weight of a life than contemplating death.
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"I had a lot of moments where I was doing on-camera work and Eddie was performing harder and with more intent than he had been in his coverage, simply to give me material to work with and respond to," says Miller.
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It had pushed the dollar to a 2-1/2 year low against the euro and a 28-month trough against a broader set of top currencies before stabilising in Europe where traders were more intent on dumping the safe-haven Swiss franc.
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The message it sent by trying to stop outreach, according to Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, is that it "seems more intent on accelerating the demise of the health law than on running the program effectively and keeping insurance markets stable."
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With an eye on Bill Clinton's presidency, he may even relish a lengthy impeachment battle that uncovers no crime while showing that congressional Democrats are more intent on pursuing a vendetta against a president than helping the people they're elected to serve.
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Watching the pre-fight activity, it is hard to not feel that the kung fu fighter was more intent on posturing his way through some kind of Donnie-Yen-as-Ip-Man fantasy, than realistically confronting the "actual combat" looming before him.
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But when a series seems more intent on surprising its audience every week instead of creating relatable characters whose decisions, and not the machinations of some offscreen influence, inform the plot, then the balance is in favor of mystery being the reason to tune in.
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While Reich is a composer in the more traditional sense—Lucier once said of himself that he's more intent on removing anything that "distracts from the acoustical unfolding of the idea"—the opening piece on his new record Pulse / Quartet offers similar temporal tricks.
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Seniors everywhere wondered why their COLA was so meager; why millionaires and billionaires didn't pay into Social Security at the same rate they did; why some politicians seemed more intent on cutting the program they loved and relied on than on bolstering and expanding it.
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But she again aimed most of her fire at Bloomberg, to the point where at times it seemed she was more intent on making sure the billionaire New Yorker and former Republican does not end up the nominee than making the case for herself.
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So maybe Irving is less interested in being the undisputed star of his own team and more intent on sharing a club with other leading men who do not suck most of the oxygen out of the franchise, if not the arena, as does James.
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C. E. S. Franks, a prominent parliamentary scholar and professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, said at the time that the move would be "about as welcome as a root canal" to Canadians who were more intent on enjoying their summers than thinking about politics.
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He plays soccer with friends — or he used to until he ruptured a ligament in his left ankle on the field — orders a glass of wine at dinner while trying trendy restaurants and generally seems more intent on building a life instead of just a legacy.
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Bosworth may have a keener nose for detail (from her we learn that at one moma show, an assistant had to go around each morning and wipe the Arbus photographs where people had spat on them), whereas Lubow is more intent upon the shifts in Arbus's work.
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"He was clearly kind of like an early Charlie Parker in the history of bebop tourism," said Mr. Levitch, who touched upon the architecture and history of the terminal and other nearby spots, but seemed more intent on redefining rush hour as something other than an unpleasant march.
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It would also make sense for the federal government to tax and borrow to pay for infrastructure projects, which would create jobs in the near term while boosting the economy's productive potential; unfortunately, Mr. Trump's plan seems more intent on enriching private builders than benefiting the general public.
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Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, has gained little traction despite backing from Trump administration officials, with party leaders more intent on accusing each other of inaction as they fight for control of the Senate in 2021.
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Russia wants to fight the conflict in Syria on its own terms, which are at odds with those of the US. With America walking away from the table, Russia will now be more intent than ever on not losing ground on any issue in Syria, including compromise on possible solutions.
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At the same time, the affluent classes (whose anxieties made them ever more intent on distinguishing themselves from those in the lower rungs) had rejected the "tourist" designation altogether — tourists go to wax museums in Times Square — and chose instead to follow the path of what the industry calls immersive travel.
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In his latest term, Mr Modi has seemed more intent on following another side of his character, consolidating personal control, punishing political foes and pursuing Hindu-nationalist ideological goals—such as placing 7.5m unhappy Muslims in Kashmir under extended lockdown and direct rule from Delhi—than dealing with more pressing economic issues.
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But even the Obama administration tried to place caps on the loan program, recognizing that its popularity would begin to cost the government a lot of revenue once loans began to qualify for forgiveness (that tab, coincidentally, starts being paid this year, by a federal government more intent on cutting costs than ever).
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"I think there has to be very careful thinking based on what effects would different actions cost, and so far sanctions really have not produced any positive effect for the U.S.," Dmitriev argued, adding that he felt Europe was more intent on carrying out joint projects with his country and easing sanctions.
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As with most of Simon's television work, The Deuce is a slow burn, more intent on creating a world than speeding through plot — this eight-episode first season sets the table potentially for two more that Simon and Pelecanos have planned, which would eventually lead the characters into the still-debauched sex industry of the '183s.
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"We urge you to be more intent and proactive in engaging local groups, such as ours, who are invested in finding solutions, and — perhaps most importantly — we urge you to be more transparent about your processes, progress and the performance of your interventions, so as to enable us to work more effectively together," they added in the letter.
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Trump, who has chafed in recent weeks at what he views as an overly hawkish approach from Bolton, signaled he was more intent on preserving his relationship with Kim Jong Un. "I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me," Trump said in his tweet before taking a swipe at former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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Whitaker's appointment represents a scenario Democrats have warned about: that Trump could replace Sessions, and by extension Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, who had been overseeing the matter, with someone more intent in hindering it.
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Indeed, many worry that academia has been captured by liberal professors who, as Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosTrump aides pushed for states' ability to block migrant kids from enrolling in public schools: report Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid Buttigieg to Detroit audience: Don't judge Indiana by Pence and we won't judge Michigan by DeVos MORE suggested two years ago, are more intent on indoctrinating students rather than objectively educating students.
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