Intensity of mood refers to the degree or amplitude of emotional expression i.e., the degree of arousal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Further, specific indications relate to traditional diagnostic labels i.e., disease A responds, disease B does not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

All of which gets billed to Medicaid, i.e., the taxpayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Have Lost Our Humanity] Reference

He hit back by calling her "unbecoming," i.e., unladylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Governor Romney, Meet Governor Romney] Reference

We were all painfully, horribly polite people -- i.e., afraid of confrontation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where There's A Wilco] Reference

You're in Houston to visit Grandma, and the non-natives (i.e., the kids) are restless.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Season Of Shows] Reference

It serves as a perfect stimulant to another creative act: i.e., writing, painting, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Jazz Back?] Reference

DISCUSS WHETHER you're suitable for each other (i.e., make sure she's going to say yes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The best traditional (i.e., steamed) seafood is served at the Old Original Bookbinder's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

If housing doesn't stop imploding, the confidence businesses (i.e. credit) won't recover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quitter Economy] Reference

Palin did a smooth job of bridging her story to the business at hand, i.e. getting elected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The GOP's Natural] Reference

Anyway, the real experts, i.e., parents, are beginning to suspect that the whole thing is on the wane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Pokemon Evil?] Reference

But the "criminal bourgeoisie" (i.e., private entrepreneurs) would have no place in the proposed system.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Authoritarian Solution?] Reference

Instead it perpetuates the weary stereotype that power (i.e., a career) and money turn women into monsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

People break up their contact with the outside world and pull back into their own world, i.e., the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Promising Prospects In Europe] Reference

 Your body's ability to make more garbage trucks (i.e., raise your HDL) is, in part, genetically determined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Never-Ending Diet Wars] Reference

It would cut "marginal" (i.e., top) rates -- a step that, conservatives believe, promotes work and investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This The Right Medicine?] Reference

One policy expert after another has testified that entitlements should be "means tested," i.e., based on need.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

Sajack-y: A favorite Letterman reason for nixing jokes, i.e., they sound more appropriate for another TV host.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzwords] Reference

Most Americans eat a diet that's relatively high in saturated fat and cholesterol — i.e., a lot of "garbage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garbage Trucks in Your Blood] Reference

Sidecar: At private clubs -- i.e., bars that require a small membership fee -- bartenders can't serve "doubles.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking Greek] Reference

If he refuses to appear, Conyers said, "the committee is prepared to resort to compulsory process" — i.e., a subpoena.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove] Reference

Moscow's anxiety about missile defense might be allayed with the right sort of incentives, i.e., investment by the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dropping The Bomb] Reference

He wasn't yet "brain dead," implying a permanent cessation of cerebral function, or "legally dead," i.e., fit to be buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From the Dead] Reference

When it came to campaign finance, Rove believed in the Colin Powell Doctrine of Overwhelming Force -- i.e., bury the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [INNER CIRCLE] Reference

First-time applicants, i.e., high schoolers, can also file online but must print the signature page, sign it and mail it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lots On Loans] Reference

Despite such disaster stories, cyberdating aficionados say their approach is safer than meeting "offline" (i.e., in person).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me A Web Site. . .] Reference

The correct thing would have been "sudden death," as it was in Atlanta -- i.e., the team that scores first in overtime wins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

There's no equivalent to the feeling you have when you're finished watching Pan's Labyrinth — i.e., can we see that again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bite Stuff, Again] Reference

But until recently we've never seen a time when one person or small group could wreak mass destruction (i.e., tens of thousands) without possessing at least some political power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man A Superpower] Reference