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

Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright