Sidenote: Tensity and Laxness] The tensity or laxness of your muscles when you are in the presence of a prospect will suggest to him very diverse ideas.
Both tensity and laxity of muscles can be used to good effect in selling.
Its sound carried a complete reversal of everything to which his mind had been focussed with a tensity which had keyed itself to the acceptance of a violent death, and with the reversal came reaction.
There were three left battling for the often sweetened pot now, with three more who had dropped out, looking on, and a tensity enveloped the long-drawn climax of the evening's session.
Spurrier's tensity of expression relaxed into something like amusement for the anticlimax.
In a moment her mind lost its tensity of projection and she was almost flying down her own long stair.
He was not exactly good-looking, but he had remarkable eyes and a singular tensityof manner, which made me almost breathless at times.
As her car neared the business district she could feel in the air such an electric tensity as one might expect to find at the verge of a battle-field.
He had learned that tensity was a thing to be held in reserve until occasion should call for it.
As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languor of sorrow after defeat.
There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies.
Gripping this he stood listening intently, his breath coming quick in the tensity of his excitement.
I'm very sorry, papa, that you should forbid me," said Genevieve with a quiet tensity that should have forewarned him.
As they left the room, Lord James faced Genevieve with a sudden tensity that compelled her attention.
Again he resumed his pacing, speaking as he went, sometimes in low tones, sometimes with tensity of voice, always as if urged by some force that was driving him from silence.
Minute after minute passed in a straining tensity of silence.
The Count de St. Germaine spoke; his voice sounded loud and resonant upon Oliver's tensity of nervous strain.
The rebound from the tensity of the strain was too great for him to bear.
That night spent itself through a tensity of waiting until dawn.
Finally the brother-in-law went over to where Sally was still sitting with her eyes fixed on him in a dumb tensity of waiting.
Even as I saw him, a dim silhouette, I could detect thattensity in his attitude which told of high-strung nerves.
Henderson could feel the ominoustensity in the air, but Towers himself only shook his head and laughed.
He broke off abruptly, his chest heaving, and to Lone Stacy it seemed that the air was electrically charged, as with the still tensity that goes, windless and breathless, before the bursting of thunder heads among the crags.
His hands, hanging at the seams of his jeans breeches, clenched, and his voice came in a slow utterance through which throbbed the tensity of a soul-absorbing bitterness.
The tensity of her earnestness might have told a subtler psychologist than Tamarack that she was endeavoring to convince herself.
Both had begun to feel the tensity of the situation.
Hal’s tensity of feature informed her of the weight of the blow she had just dealt him.
Impersonal though it seemed, through it Hal felt a growing tensity of intercourse; a sense of pregnant and perilous intimacy drawing them together.
It seemed incredible that the tensity of the silence should not snap.
More unwisely, he ignored a certain tensityof expression upon the face of his interlocutor.
Sleepy as Main Street seemed in the heat, the town was incensed and roused to a tensity of feeling it had not known since the civil war, when, on occasion, it had set out to hang half a dozen "Knights of the Golden Circle.
Stilwell inquired, leaning over in the tensityof his feeling, his tanned face growing pale, as if the thought of such atrocity turned his blood cold.
As Joe said this he stared down at the sleeper, a curious tensity in his eyes.
But, paradoxically, this superficial commonplaceness only heightened the tensity of the thing that underlay it.
To Joe, the feeling of tensity marked this morning off from all the other mornings of his experience.
His stomach cramped itself in a hard knot, in the instinctive tensity of somebody in free fall.
The excessive individualism which gives to Ibsen's best plays their tensity of interest is also the cause of their inacceptability to the multitude shrinking from any surrender of the hard won conquests of civilization.
And as he walked home with his daughter, he kept glancing at her face, which for all its look of quiet had so much tensity beneath.
Night after night, with a tensity born of her struggle with her grief, she talked about her children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tensity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: rigidity; rigor; stiffness; tension; tightness
