How To Use Intentness In A Sentence
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The master talked to him gently but seriously, and he cocked his ears, and listened with painful intentness.
The Call of Kind
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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
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‘What do you think these aliens would look like?’ she asked with the same intentness as her first question.
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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.
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Those amber eyes studied me with that worried intentness that I'd known so long ago.
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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
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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
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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
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She lifted a crocus and stood there examining its bloom with absent intentness.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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With singular intentness, a procession of men carry a body.
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Yet the austerity focuses an atmosphere of laboratory intentness on stage as two great dancers scrutinise the possibilities of their shared classical vocabulary.
Sylvie Guillem - review
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the intentness of his gaze
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He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.
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He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
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She faces the camera with the kind of intentness that went with a slower photographic process.
Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65
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When he looked up, Anna noted that his eyes were deep and brown, almost cowlike except for the intentness and concentration they held.
Darksong Rising
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He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.
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Hard-faced mercenaries watched the crowd with the same intentness that she did.
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He would stand and stare at one rope for a minute or so at a time, following it aloft with his eyes through the maze of ropes and stabs and gears with all the intentness of a man working out an intricate problem.
CHAPTER XXVII
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For death went with it, and life remained with those who watched it go; and being rejected, they watched with eager intentness.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
