The intensity and Concentrativeness of the Roman temperament also tended to produce those one-sided types of character, which are the favourite objects of satiric portraiture.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Sidney Hinchford, be it observed here, made but a clumsy blind man; he had little of that Concentrativeness of the remaining senses, which make amends for the deprivation of one faculty.
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson
And he knew it was his brooding thought, his fierce, hard determination, his intense Concentrativeness for so many months, that had been digging that furrow; and it must prove indeed a potent specific of the life-water that would smooth that away, and restore him all the youth and elasticity that he had buried in that profound grave.
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne