Sentence examples for a heightened version from inspiring English sources

Stewart understands that he is not an actor but a performer — someone who can deliver a heightened version of himself.

It is his version of The Kinks' "Village Green", itself a heightened version of north London woods where Ray Davies played and dreamed as a boy.

Unlike many actresses, Ms. Dennings does not pretend that "2 Broke Girls" is art, insisting that Max is little more than a heightened version of herself.

A lot of people are just doing a heightened version of themselves".

We, as adults, can't perpetuate hostility and separation in our politics, our workplaces and social circles and then be shocked when a heightened version occurs in our child's school.

In this movie, heightened realism launches the fantastic, and the two modes appear seamless, for everything that we see is a heightened version of what only a child could experience and imagine.

The school in The Fire-Eaters, in which the central character, Bobby, is strapped on his first day for "failing to pay attention when a teacher speaks", is a "very heightened version" of his own.

It's a zippy, heightened version of reality where everything is a little bit funny, weird, and safe.

Instead, his voice comes zinging off the page, projecting a sincere effort to tell you something quite urgent in a rhetorically heightened version of actual speech.

Anyone can see themselves in Atticus' poetry, and what they'll see is a slightly heightened version of themselves, enigmatic and alluring.

These cities offer, after all, heightened versions of our own neighborhoods.