Or maybe it was his hearing that had taken on a new intensity.

Noises, things within his view, the smells took on a new intensity.

They seemed to see everything with a new intensity because joy had added a fresh dimension to life.

All the other contestants now looked at the board with a new intensity.

Except lately the talk has taken on a new intensity.

This isn't just something that came along with the Coalition, though it does seem to have reached a new intensity.

He did not want to describe the new intensity of feeling.

She sobered, then, and went on with a completely new intensity.

After the 1987 election, the battle went on with new intensity.

And increasingly, the new intensity began to hold even through his absences.