tensity

Example Sentences

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That same week, Fitzgerald wrote his editor, Maxwell Perkins, that “Ernest came like a whirlwind. … I felt he was in a state of nervous tensity, that there was something almost religious about it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2017

I have never seen such color and tensity in a crowd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marriage has its ups and downs, reports Knef, but love has an in tensity that mere friends are incapable of understanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

She rises to the play's tensity with the real genius of a tragedienne and she sinks into its swamps of woe with equal effectiveness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The loud demand of the tensity of his own body was a voice that drowned out hers.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright