Ms. Simpson evokes precisely the gritty and visceral intensity of that need.

It added a visceral intensity that fueled his national candidacy, but it left him too far outside the political mainstream to be elected President.

But the operatic Lizzie is clearly the murderer, and the act is depicted in music of slashing, visceral intensity.

Even so, it is a testament to his vision as well as his film's visceral intensity that this fabrication didn't seem totally off the wall.

And many of the work's sections, for all their visceral intensity, came off more like choreographic throat clearing than experimentation.

Her voice took on a visceral intensity.

And then there is music so disturbing in its visceral intensity that repeated exposure might lead to a Valium dependency.

She overwhelmed the songs with visceral operatic intensity.

But early paternal memories can lack the visceral intensity of the maternal ones.

No one projects pain on stage with the visceral intensity of Ms. Finley.