intentness
Example Sentences
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In the next phase, the Bruins focused on Level 2: self-control, alertness, initiative and intentness.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2016
It takes a while to realize that this keen self-consciousness is born not of shyness, but of focus — an intentness on getting the effect he wants, exactly right.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2016
As the ball whipped toward the plate, the batter's cool blue eyes examined it with icy intentness.
From Time Magazine Archive
From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said nothing, but she looked at him with a strange, quick intentness, almost as though there were a warning on her tongue which at the moment she did not dare to utter.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
