intenseness

Example Sentences

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“Hopefully, the energy — or whatever people want to say, the intenseness that I have — may work here,” Collins said.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2011

After the intenseness of the thrill died out of him he smiled at the idea that a chance meeting in New York could be followed up in this fashion in the north country.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman

I hardly dared to breathe from the very intenseness of my anxiety, and it was not till I saw the British flag floating from the citadel, that I could respire freely.

From Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by Taylor, William

We shall see the calmness, the intenseness, the purity, of their worship.

From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry

But as soon as he appeared on the stage, alone, and without any apparatus, any stage-assistants, the very intenseness of expectation produced silence.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)