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intentness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being intent and concentrated
    the intentness of his gaze

How To Use intentness In A Sentence

  • The master talked to him gently but seriously, and he cocked his ears, and listened with painful intentness. The Call of Kind
  • The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • ‘What do you think these aliens would look like?’ she asked with the same intentness as her first question.
  • It is that afterthought - a sort of half-dotty intentness on completion such that an alternative river has to be provided to receive the delinquent bullocky - that imbues this observation with its ironic momentum.
  • Those amber eyes studied me with that worried intentness that I'd known so long ago.
  • His face was anxious, as was the face of my companion, who had stumped over to the rail and was gazing with a like intentness in the direction of the invisible danger. Chapter 1
  • He stopped and regarded her, all of an intentness and eagerness, physically expressed, that slowly faded out of him as she turned her head and gazed back at the camp. The Bondage
  • All day he remains close, watching me with intentness surely designed to draw the notice of the court as well as my own. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • She lifted a crocus and stood there examining its bloom with absent intentness. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • With singular intentness, a procession of men carry a body.
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