Frame Report

A physical Exerter, Action, or Force exerts energy at a level specified by the target. This frame covers both individual-level/static uses ("an INTENSE person") as well as stage-level/dynamic uses ("an INTENSE look"), although the individual-level meaning seems more basic.

Although an energetic and able warrior|Exer, Charlemagne tended to direct battles rather than fight in person.
She dumped a mug on the bedside table|Act with such|Deg vigor that steaming coffee spashed out.
Swing the racket with dynamic force|For.

I|Exer felt particularly|Deg sluggish at work|Pla that day|Tim.
Exerter, Action, and Force belong to a Core set.

This frame also covers several productive metaphor cases. In the first one, movement or change caused by a social entity is conveyed as energy exerted by a physical entity. 'Social' here encompasses entities that are economic, political, technological, historical, cultural, and intimate:
The private sector|Exer is so much more|Deg dynamic.
Singh had been under intense political pressure|Exer.
Economies|Exer are still|Tim sluggish.
Relatedly, the influential effect of an psychological entity is described in terms of energy exertion by a physical entity. 'Psychological' includes the intellectual, emotional, and creative:
Sinead's|Exer emotional|Dom intensity permeates every nuance of every lyric.
He finds the Poet Laureate's theory about Shakespeare|Exer to be more|Deg energetic than persuasive|Deg.
Both metaphors appear to involve a third metaphor, which is the anthropomorphization of processes (see examples directly above) or inhuman entities (e.g. in nature):
The lazy creak|Act of sails
The energetic waves|Exer
A broad, lethargic river|Exer

Further, there is a metonymy wherein energy exerted by people carrying out an activity characterizes instead a central object or other component of the activity:
Lucker plays lazy games|Act.
She thought the lazy days|Exer in France would never end.


Compare to: Level_of_force_exertion.