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

But what is so gripping about his work is the in tensity with which Arikha engages that world.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright