Growth is, in its essence, an emancipative process; and though it sometimes intensifies selfishness and widens the sphere of its activity, that is invariably due to its being one-sided and therefore inharmonious and unhealthy.
It is in this way that a formal examination reacts upon and intensifies the sinister tendencies of which it is at once a product and a symptom.
Exercise accelerates the rate of respiration and intensifiesthis sound.
Heat intensifies the action of the colloids in causing precipitation of the dissolved salts, so that the temperatures of the kidneys and bladder constitute favorable conditions.
Each bettering of knowledge intensifies the possibilities of this cohesion; and, for that, it is welcomed.
Not that the Divine Spirit supersedes their human faculties, but He intensifies them.
For sin makes need, and needintensifies into emergency.
If to this we add the remarkable immigration to our shores, of a million a year, it intensifies enormously the opportunity of service brought to us by foreign peoples.
Benedick, reporting to the same tune, intensifies his misery.
It intensifiesthe feud between the Lord Protector and the Cardinal.
My other prize cat is of a very rich chocolate or seal, with darker face, ears, and tail; the legs are a shade darker, which intensifies towards the feet.
The cause of this agreement can only lie in selection, which preserves and intensifies in each species the favourable variations that present themselves.
But in rejecting one thing it preserves another, intensifies it, combines it, and in this way creates what is new.
The excitement of fear in the mind still more accelerates heart action and respiration, intensifies the local congestion and greatly increases the morbid accumulations in the system.
Deprived of its own mineral constituents, distilled water leeches the mineral elements and organic salts out of the tissues of the body and thereby intensifies dysemic [blood deterioration] conditions.
Destruction hastens and intensifies The process that is Beauty, manifests Ranges of form unknown before, and gives Motion and voice and hue where otherwise Bleak inexpressiveness had leveled all.
It sometimes happens that the image in drying intensifies more then necessary.
In theory, both men and women would agree that physical union, ideally, should express a spiritual union; and that in doing so, it deepens and intensifies it.
It is noticeable that the whole case for birth control has repeatedly been argued from the ground that the act of physical union not only expresses but intensifies and increases love.
And yet the external martyrdom of the redeemer intensifies this difference in a twofold way.
We would not, of course, deny that the repetition of the thought in a changed form intensifies the rhythmic expression.
The will is that particular aspect of the soul-monad by means of which it consciously intensifies or relaxes the outward pressure of emotion.
We approach a duration which strains, contracts, and intensifies itself more and more; at the limit would be eternity.
The deliberate repression of sensation does, it is true, sometimes destroy our response to sensation; but it more often intensifies the soul's sensational life.
It sometimes intensifies it to an extreme point of quite painful suspension.
For lyrical poetry differs from epic poetry, just as lyrical music differs from recitative: each still further intensifies the natural language of the emotions.
The second part of this illustrative example intensifies the command by putting obedience to it before acts of external worship.
This announcement intensifies the feeling of regret and alarm.
Instead of feeling safer in the custody of civilised men, the thought of it but intensifies their fears.
His painful reflections are interrupted by that which but intensifies their painfulness: a shadow he sees flitting across the plain.
Just what this force is we do not know, but we do know that it is what intensifiesthe will in demanding just and harmonious action.
You will find that this strongly intensifies the sense of smell.
For if there be any knowledge that intensifies thirst for more, it is precisely the imperfect knowledge of God we have by faith and the contemplation of Him in his creatures.
The remembrance of them rather intensifies our love for the God of mercy and therefore increases our happiness.
Defn: One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification.
Defn: That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
The very scarcity of money intensifies the temptation to think too much of it when it has been acquired.
In Hindu family life the respect and affection which the son has for his mother is a most touching and beautiful characteristic, which only intensifies the older he grows.
He becomes an individual because the desire to make money releases his energy and intensifies his personal initiative.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intensifies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
