143 collocations for intensified

A few ducks are usually seen sailing on the lake, apparently more for pleasure than anything else, and the ouzels at the head of the rapids sing always; while robins, grosbeaks, and the Douglas squirrels are busy in the groves, making delightful company, and intensifying the feeling of grateful sequestration without ruffling the deep, hushed calm and peace.

By allowing the continuance of the crude struggle for existence which is the form industrial competition takes when applied to the low-skilled workers, and at the same time forbidding the proved "unfittest" to be cleared out of the world, we seem to perpetuate and intensify the struggle.

Why need they thus intensify his sense of shame at his life's failure, and, above all, at his failure to provide for Angeline?

The dramatist having little time in which to evolve his story, feels that every scene which does not forward the progress of the action or intensify the interest in the characters is an artistic defect; though in itself it may be charmingly written, and may excite applause, it is away from his immediate purpose.

She had heard of his profligacy, his bursts of fierce Berserk-madness; and yet now these very faults, instead of repelling, seemed to attract her, and intensify her longing to save him.

And I should have roused in his heart a feeling of irritation and impatience with me, which would have done in one hour more to intensify his love for her, and to change its nature from a pure, involuntary sentiment into an acknowledged and guilty one, than years and years of free intercourse could do.

Without being in the least aware of it, and quite innocently, Janet had painted a picture of the young man, Edwin Clayhanger, which intensified a hundredfold the strong romantic piquancy of Hilda's brief vision of him.

Not so when we are there; when we are there such thoughts come to us only to intensify a contrary impression, and association is turned against itself.

It is the practice of mating animals closely related to each other, and it is, within limits, an entirely justifiable means of preserving and intensifying family characteristics.

On the other hand, thyroid extracts will intensify the action of the autonomic or drive system, so that the amount and acidity of the digestive juice is increased.

Imagination intensifies all our pleasures, even those of sense; and without imaginationyea, a memory stored with the pious deeds of saints and martyrs in bygone

But Hugo could feel the things in the spirit of man that Milton felt; not only because they were still there, but because the secret influence of Milton has intensified the consciousness of them in thousands who think they know nothing of Paradise Lost.

After that, the radiant, baffling silence of daybreak on uninhabited wastes, when the very active glory of the spreading, intensifying light ought, one feels, to bring paeans of orchestral splendor.

" Some old refrain of Béranger she had heard working folks sing in her plebeian childhood rose to her memory and intensified her emotion.

The very shortness of our time to stay, intensified our enjoyment while it lasted.

In any case Moses' life in Midian tended to intensify his faith in Jehovah.

" Rachel was in one of her moods, and there was no use in arguing with her, as it would only have intensified her gloom.

This spirit of moderation shown by the tribune relieved the fears of the patricians, but it also intensified their resentment against the consuls, for they seemed to be so wholly devoted to the plebs, that the safety and liberty of the patricians were a matter of more immediate concern to the plebeian than they were to the patrician magistrates.

The primeval elements of the summer night encouraged and intensified Hilda's mood, half joyous, half apprehensive.

She could not recall her peculiar and delicious agitations during the final moments of her previous interview with Cannonthat night of February in the newspaper office, while her mother was dying in Londonwithout a profound unreasoning shame which intensified most painfully her natural grief as an orphan.

The moment's silence intensified her eagerness and hope; he felt them burning in her eyes, and would not meet their prayer again.

He only intensified the hatred between the old conservative party and the party of reform and progress.

In the troublous times about the middle of the fourteenth century, when every petty prince in Europe was trying to overreach his immediate neighbor and grasp his lands, and when ties of blood seemed only to intensify feuds, there arose two claimants for the principality of Brittany.

At infrequent intervals our motor passed a train of laden mules, or a group of peasants about a well, and sometimes, far off, a fortified farm profiled its thick-set angle-towers against the sky, or a white koubba floated like a mirage above the brush, but these rare signs of life intensified the solitude of the long miles between.

[Here is an example of suspended meaning, where the suspense intensifies the effect, because each particular is vividly apprehended in itself, and all culminate in the conclusion; they do not complicate the thought, or puzzle us, they only heighten expectation].

143 collocations for  intensified