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Courtship behaviors begin in January or February, when hormones intensify the owls' calling and give it an amorous spin.

And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling.

Indeed, in conflict situations the rhetoric around honor often intensifies.

The Full Moon, Friday, intensifies the need for intimacy to near desperation.

Yet the gregariousness of the web only intensifies his solitude.

As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West.

There is isolation in the largest crowds; in fact, such environment only intensifies at times our sense of desolation.

Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire.

It is evident that life in a separate college for women often intensifies this defect.

There are times when the spirit of the living so intensifies that it comes into a silence and darkness of nature like death.

It intensifies the desire in its present character, through opposition to the disagreeable tone of the experienced lack and want.