intentness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being intent and concentrated
    the intentness of his gaze
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How To Use intentness In A Sentence

  • Yet the austerity focuses an atmosphere of laboratory intentness on stage as two great dancers scrutinise the possibilities of their shared classical vocabulary. Sylvie Guillem - review
  • For death went with it, and life remained with those who watched it go; and being rejected, they watched with eager intentness. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
  • He would stand and stare at one rope for a minute or so at a time, following it aloft with his eyes through the maze of ropes and stabs and gears with all the intentness of a man working out an intricate problem. CHAPTER XXVII
  • Hard-faced mercenaries watched the crowd with the same intentness that she did.
  • He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.
  • When he looked up, Anna noted that his eyes were deep and brown, almost cowlike except for the intentness and concentration they held. Darksong Rising
  • She faces the camera with the kind of intentness that went with a slower photographic process. Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65
  • He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
  • He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.
  • the intentness of his gaze
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