Which preposition to use with intensity
I remained there from the morning till late in the afternoon, without refreshment of any kind; and such was the intensity of my emotion, that I did not feel the want of it.
It is found in the simple lines, "On my Mother's Birthday," when the child was only eight years old, and, after incidentally appearing in many a poem, it is shown in all its intensity in the "Hymn by the Sick-bed of a Mother.
The conflict here was of furnace intensity for four days.
The final hour was not yet, but the struggle grew in intensity with the passage of timethe struggle wherein one fought for revenge and future freedom from molestation, but the other for the establishment of a faith in its rightful environment, the manifestation before men of that Faith's determined achievement, the symbol of its destined conquests and divinely appointed power.
The day had been one string of extraordinary experiences, accumulating in intensity to the one ghastly discovery which had overtopped and overwhelmed all the rest.
All the time, he was working with a passionate intensity on the portrait; letting everything else go; tossing aside the most remunerative offers; leaving his mail unopened; throwing himself intensely, recklessly, into this one single enterprise.
Who ever loved and hated with more intensity than David?tender yet fierce, brave yet weak, magnanimous yet unrelenting, exultant yet sad, committing crimes yet triumphantly rising after disgraceful falls by the force of a piety so ardent that even his backslidings now appear but as spots upon a sun.
The first week it rained incessantly; then, with the sun, came the insufferable heat, increasing in intensity from day to day, from week to week.
For a few moments she could not recall her scattered senses, but soon the remembrance of yesterday crowded upon her mind, and the anguish depicted upon her face showed that they had lost nothing of their intensity during their short oblivion.
There are continents and seas and islands thereit is not a dead, dry surface like the moonand it has clouds and rains and snows and seasons, just as we have, and of the same intensity as ours.
The difference of intensity between the original and the sympathetic feelings differs widely with the various classes of emotions.
There are passions which may rise to the highest degree of intensity without reducing the responsibility.
I slept for an hour or two under an Austrian blanket, none too clean as it afterwards appeared, and drank Austrian coffee and ate Austrian biscuits.... All through that day and night and the day following the cannonading continued, but with very variable intensity at different points and times.
We are not in love with beautiful, impracticable visions at all; we measure a man's moral intensity by the extent to which he makes people respectable and prosperous.
And these same points, when seen in the dim reflection of the Earth, will still predominate in intensity over the neighbouring regions.
Her heart yearned with passionate intensity towards her mother, to hear her voice in blessing, to see her beaming smile, and feel her kiss of approbation, such as at Oakwood she had so often received: she longed in utter wretchedness for them.
Starting mildly, with broken clouds, little snow, and gleams of sunshine, it grew in intensity until this forenoon, when there was heavy snowfall and the sky overspread with low nimbus cloud.
The eggs all disappeared but one (5), which increased in size; the bright point of light now shone with great intensity like a star; then it gradually grew dimmer and dimmer till it disappeared into the usual hazy obscurity into which all [my] visual objects ultimately vanish.
Come nowyou admit certain dissatisfactions with yourself, sowhy not go with intensity into just the things you teachand not touch quite so many other things? HOLDEN: I couldn't teach anything if I didn't feel free to go wherever that thing took me.