The herders listened with grim intensity to what he sang.

Something was bothering them, and they were talking about it with grim intensity.

They played with grim intensity, fixing their attention on the cards, but both of them knew that there was a third person at the table now.

Decker stared at it with grim intensity, as though the combat to come was to be a personal one, hand-to-hand.

And then with a horrible grim intensity he traversed the gun as it roared.

The Emperor winced at some image only he could see, then shook himself and his amusement vanished once more into that same grim intensity.

The cook worked with grim intensity, slamming the axe down again and again.

All that came to him through the bond was a grim intensity.

He held the bottle up to the fire, studying its contents with grim intensity.

Illyan turned now to pin Miles with a gaze of grim intensity.