The director had a marked preference for understatement. Even in the play's most violent scene, she kept the staging spare, confident that an audience left to imagine the worst would feel it more keenly than any spectacle could compel.
As used in the text, what does the word "keenly" most nearly mean?
- A
shrewdly
- B
eagerly
- Ccheck_circle
intensely
- D
with a sharp edge
Explanation
The audience feels the violence intensely when left to imagine it; "keenly" here means intensely, not sharp-edged, shrewdly, or eagerly.