Followed a brief pause, charged with a curious emotional tensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Both tensity and laxity of muscles can be used to good effect in selling. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
He sat up suddenly, his muscular tensity increasing the hurt of the scurvy. From Wordnik.com. [FINIS] Reference
The answer to his first question stiffened him into an attitude of rigid tensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
He leaned over the wheel, his face fixed on the road with its "eat-her-up" tensity. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
The desperate imploring in the eyes of each keyed the situation to electric tensity. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
As me being a Florida resident, I feel the tensity of this this election first hand. From Wordnik.com. [Can undecideds swing the vote?] Reference
Then, his voice softened wonderfully, though it shook with the tensity of his feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
There were more grins, less tensity still, when Barclay and Van Wall finished their work. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Her eyes possessed a peculiar in - tensity; obviously in Phaze that would manifest as the evil eye. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
She was listening for a footfall in a state of mental tensity which almost took away from her the power of motion. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
The extreme nervous tensity is emphasized almost beyond endurance by the incessant syncopated triplets of the strings. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Contest of the English Club, but she felt in herself now that highstrung tensity which at all cost would carry her on. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
In the sick-room tensity had given place to intensity, as with deft, skillful directness the doctor made his examination. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
In a low voice, a trifle shaken by reason of the sudden tensity which had crept into the atmosphere, she repeated the brief lyric. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Allowing they are diluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids as to destroy their natural force and tensity. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
For another moment the cobra maintained the tensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Bell] Reference
Life had suddenly assumed a tensity that silenced them. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
The tensity of certain situations numbs the sensibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
Everything about McQuade suggested strength and tensity of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
The tensity written on their faces, eager yet awed, brought back to. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The question seemed to have produced a tensity in the very atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Lo, Michael!] Reference
Suddenly there was a tight tensity seemed to crowd up the little room. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
Larry threw back his head, and the subtle, fierce tensity seemed to leave him. From Wordnik.com. [The U. P. Trail] Reference
"What is it?" he inquired at length, unable longer to endure the tensity of the pause. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Bell] Reference
His deep voice throbbed and pulsed with emotion, and the tensity of the times was upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
Note the tensity of expression with which the group is following his each and every word 32. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization] Reference
There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference
The exultant voices, the sudden hush, the tensity of nerve it all betokened, set her a-thrill. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoilers] Reference
A peculiar quality, a certain tensity, in Rutton's manner, forced itself upon Amber's attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Bell] Reference
Now, as he spoke, his voice trembled with that peculiar vibration which is the result of tensity. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference
For example, hand muscles are relaxed through clenching the fist, opening the hand and releasing tensity. From Wordnik.com. [Kansan.com stories] Reference
Dark Castle 's thin as a rail frontwoman Stevie Floyd, and Rob Shaffer matches her riff-tensity with an intimidating drum kit. From Wordnik.com. [brooklynvegan] Reference
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