163 adjectives to describe intensity

The motherly feelings slumbering in Norine's heart had awakened with passionate intensity for that poor little one as soon as she had given him the breast and learnt to watch over him and kiss him.

Mr. Howard, if that wine is too thin" Howard clutched his glass with dramatic intensity.

"Putting on a lot of style, eh?" said Jack Landis, and with fierce intensity he watched the face of Nelly Lebrun.

ROOSEVELT,As the news comes flashing in, these April days, and all the world holds its breath to hear the latest messages from Arras and the Vimy ridge, it is natural that in the memory of a woman who, six weeks ago, was a spectatorbefore the curtain roseof the actual scene of such events, every incident and figure of that past experience, as she looks back upon it, should gain a peculiar and shining intensity.

It was his emotional intensity as well as his lyric genius that made him the most popular poet of his time.

Why, Joe," he said with sudden intensity as he faced Joe Carbrook, "if you ever get hold of the Big Idea, and the Big Idea gets hold of you, something is sure to happen, something bigger than any of us can figure out now.

The child was observing him with an almost feverish intensity.

But it was on Don Ambrogio Morelli that she fixed her gaze with painful intensity, reading the success or failure of the orator in her brother's countenance.

The great revelationthe disclosure of the fact that Sigurd, not Gunnar, did the deed of prowess which Hiördis demanded of the man who should be her matethis crucial revelation is brought about in a scene of the utmost dramatic intensity.

If, for example, a frost should occur in September of sufficient intensity to cut down the tender annuals of our gardens,after this, when the tints begin to appear, the outer portion of the foliage that was touched by the frost will exhibit a sullied and rusty hue.

And all the time Marianne found herself listening with desperate intensity for the report of a gun out of the woods ahead!

My friend loves methat does not matterit is his spiritual intensity I care for.

She held to him with a savage intensity of possession.

"He laughed!" said the signorina, with tragic intensity.

They make the demand, with extreme intensity of feeling, as a demand for fundamental justice.

He seemed as though he were trying, with curious and professional intensity, to read the thoughts in Philip's brain.

I had scarcely entered the convent before the yellow fever broke out and raged with fearful intensity.

The interactions of the two glands, the ovary and the posterior pituitary, modified by accessory influences, determine the relative intensity of the two instincts.

"] When the night was exceeding coldand one who has not felt it can hardly imagine the bitter, killing intensity of a northern midnight in Februarythe wolves, instead of going away, would wait under the tree in which the lynx had taken refuge, and the silent, appalling death-watch began.

From the facts that skeletons of seals had been found strewed along the north shore, and the present void, Roswell was led to infer that the late storm had been one of unusual intensity, and most probably of a character to occur only at long intervals.

Be this, or be some other, the true theory of the fact, the fact itself unquestionably is, that our climate produces the highest nervous intensity.

The great work carried out by the minesweepers can be best judged by quoting a few figures for 1917, during which year the mine menace attained its maximum intensity, owing to the large increase in the number of German submarine minelayers.

But after him there remained nothing for successors except mechanical imitation, soulless rehandling of themes he had exhausted by reducing them to his imperious imagination in a crucible of fiery intensity.

The greenish-white face with its staring eyes and blood-stained lips stood out in the bright light from its background of black darkness with the vivid intensity of some ghastly wax-work.

[Footnote 1: Schelling terms his philosophy of nature dynamic atomism, since it posits pure intensities as the simple (atoms), from which qualities are to be explained.

163 adjectives to describe  intensity