intently

Players, Arab and Jew, listened intently to one another, responded in solos as though part of a personal dialogue — a search for what brings them together, not what keeps them apart.

As numbers were read, each person peered intently at their ticket and then glanced around at the crowd to see who was called.

“He was intently listening, going around the table, letting everyone speak their mind,” Lafleur said.

The young woman in the black-and-white photograph peers at the camera intently, exuding a confidence beyond her years.

The bodyguard sits next to Hamza and will spend much of the next 22 minutes staring intently at him.