1.   An intensely focused personality who demands perfection on the plate, Trotter likes to put pressure on himself and his kitchen staff.

2.   A small, intensely focused study that avoids sensationalism.

3.   But while the intensely focused classes seem to motivate students, critics charge they are not truly educating them.

4.   By the end, she is playing a harsh and intensely focused trick on the man who married her for her money.

5.   Maybe Johnson, the kid from Skyline who always did his homework, will stay intensely focused and melt it down again in a few weeks.

6.   She is intensely focused and highly articulate.

7.   The approach mirrors the French Laundry dining experience, which centers on many small, refined, intensely focused courses.

8.   Then their leader, a boyish, mild-mannered but intensely focused young man, demonstrates an intricate sequence including several shifts of balance and an elegant spiral.

9.   This sort of schedule is pretty much the norm for the boyish-looking, intensely focused choreographer.

10.   Trafton is described as intensely focused, determined, intuitive, with a tremendous ability to solve problems, according to banking colleagues.