"The play is literal, and there's also a heightened, abstract aspect".
Seen through his eyes, events take on a heightened, supernatural aspect, just as Ridley's vision of the prairie takes to horrific extremes the southern gothic aesthetic found in Flannery O'Connor's stories and Edward Hopper's more ominous rural paintings.
Rice heightens aspects such as the jealous pangs felt by Genevieve's mum, who has her own eyes on the jeweller's assets.
She keys in on my ability to work while at Disneyland, noting that I'm not going there solely for escape, and compared my enjoyment of the parks with that of those who engage in cosplay, which, she says, enables many to heighten aspects of their personality; in my case, she suggests, Disneyland speaks to my optimistic nature.
His unmistakable dialogue lends characters a heightened ability to interpret and relay aspects of the world around them.
Such people face a heightened risk of developing new polyps.
A love letter to all aspects of movie-making, Pedro Almodovar's latest is also a heightened, noirish melodrama revolving around an affair between a director (Lluis Homar) and the star of his new film (Penélope Cruz), who also happens to be the mistress of that film's producer.
The child thus faces a heightened risk of sexual assault.
Our unreality is operating at a heightened pitch.
Then it is set in a heightened, created world.
It is not an exact replica, but a heightened reality.
