intentness

IPA: ɪntˈɛntnʌs

Examples of "intentness" in Sentences

She faces the camera with the kind of intentness that went with a slower photographic process.
The master talked to him gently but seriously, and he cocked his ears, and listened with painful intentness.
All day he remains close, watching me with intentness surely designed to draw the notice of the court as well as my own.
For death went with it, and life remained with those who watched it go; and being rejected, they watched with eager intentness.
Yet the austerity focuses an atmosphere of laboratory intentness on stage as two great dancers scrutinise the possibilities of their shared classical vocabulary.
He stopped and regarded her, all of an intentness and eagerness, physically expressed, that slowly faded out of him as she turned her head and gazed back at the camp.
His face was anxious, as was the face of my companion, who had stumped over to the rail and was gazing with a like intentness in the direction of the invisible danger.
He would stand and stare at one rope for a minute or so at a time, following it aloft with his eyes through the maze of ropes and stabs and gears with all the intentness of a man working out an intricate problem.