What is "intensive"

Usage examples of "intensive".

And I might go on to show in some detail that a doctoral investigation in the humanities, when the subject is well chosen, serves the same purpose in the education of a student of language and literature as the independent, intensive study of a living or a fossil animal, when prescribed by Agassiz to a beginner in natural science.

They rely on vows of virginity, and intensive antisexual conditioning, to keep the channels totally free.

A good beginning was made by the issuance on 9 July 1942 of a Cominch information bulletin on antisubmarine warfare, the result of intensive study by officers of the Boston Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit and its attached scientists.

Since assuming command of their battleships, the admiral had regularly tested them with intensive simulations of various Fleet-attack scenarios.

Either intensive behavioral guidance is given to these few, or certain forms of bioengineered plants, producing passive behavior, are fed to them.

Intensive canvassing of the area around the Biltmore had thus far yielded no verified sightings, the records of convicted sex loonies and registered sex offenders were still being combed, the four drool case confessors were still being held at City Jail awaiting alibi checks, sanity hearings and further questioning.

For the next month I would have to take responsibility for the intensive care of those perched precariously on the edge of that slick bobsled ride down to death.

Derrida, and while I do not recommend that you attempt to tackle the whole book at this stage, you could put yourself considerably ahead of many commentators and critics by acquiring a detailed knowledge of the section of the book in which this remark occurs, using the intensive reading technique I describe in the Introduction.

Decker could see that it might take intensive and extended deprogramming to break the hold that Cohen had on his friend.

Henry was assigned a bed in the intensive care ward, cardiac and encephalographic monitors keeping close track of his vital systems.

In any case, the Thuriens had already commenced an intensive program of research into the matter, and whatever the precise form of the final answer, there seemed every chance that the Ents would come to put their unique abilities and nature to good use, and take their place in the Omniverse, alongside Terrans, Jevlenese, and Ganymeans.

Thuriens had already commenced an intensive program of research into the matter, and whatever the precise form of the final answer, there seemed every chance that the Ents would come to put their unique abilities and nature to good use, and take their place in the Omniverse, alongside Terrans, Jevlenese, and Ganymeans.

The old French forts have grown into new-world cities, the portage paths have been multiplied into streets, the trails of the coureurs de bois have become railroads, and all are the noisy, flaming, smoky places and means of such an industry and exploitation as doubtless are not to be found so extensive and so intensive in any other valley of the earth.

It applies primarily to graduate students, or students in intensive preprofessional programs such as prelaw, premedicine, and the like.

Mr Rickenshaw cursed him for his bad neighbourliness and, wholly unaware that Colonel Finch-Potter, having been relieved of his penis-grater, was now in intensive care at the Pursley Hospital, tried to knock him up.