The performers' nervous intensity helped make "Unremovable Jacket" disquieting.

Tannim asked, leaning forward with nervous intensity.

Instead, there is nervous intensity of a man sifting through the evidence, weighing the probabilities, considering his next move.

The doctor smoked, with a nervous intensity.

Yet there was a nervous intensity to her movements that suggested that this innocent was eager for experience.

"Not my lifetime," he said, pacing with nervous intensity.

Her arms were crossed, her shoulders hunched; she clutched at her elbows with a tight, nervous intensity.

And they were calmer, cool as ice, evaluative, while Rhys's sparked with nervous intensity.

Nevertheless she brought affecting nervous intensity to her vulnerable portrayal of Beatrice.

In the case of Ms. Pogson, all this is combined with a nervous intensity.