The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion.

Three years ago, he had fallen in love with her during a brief but intense encounter on a railway platform-after which she vanished.

He described a quick, intense sexual encounter, after which she appeared irritated when he refused to walk her downstairs.

Other sources describe intense encounters between African archers and a variety of enemies.

Through a series of intense personal encounters, he realizes he's not quite the man he thought he was.

"Rent" does need more shaping: the subplots get fuzzy and so do some of the quick but intense encounters between characters.

"Phenomena hunting," as she has called her intense encounters with nature, became for her a form of constructive distraction.

It was safer not to overanalyze such intense sexual encounters.

The detective in me remains, even now, a little puzzled by my brief, cheerful, oddly intense encounter with David Lynch.

It was a weapon of choice on warships for intense and close encounters.