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“Hopefully, the energy — or whatever people want to say, the intenseness that I have — may work here,” Collins said.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2011

Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the element which it contemplates.'

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

They were none of them able to understand the intenseness of her feelings; and with mingled emotions of fear and anxiety, they gazed on her in silence.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

It is for that sober period when life has lost its freshness, the passions their intenseness, and the spirits their hilarity, that we should be preparing.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

But this is abundantly compensated by the intenseness and constancy of her affections.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John