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
From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though circumstances—the increasing number of his sore throats, his intentness on his work, his need of money—kept them much apart, Keats' love for Fanny Brawne grew until it absorbed his life.
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
