The phrase "ability to heighten" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to increase or enhance something, such as emotions, experiences, or awareness.
Example: "Her ability to heighten the audience's emotional response during the performance was truly remarkable."
Alternatives: "capacity to enhance" or "skill to elevate".
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The appointment would be a huge coup for Marvel, given Jolie's celebrity status and accompanying ability to heighten interest in one of the studio's comic book arm's lesser-known properties.
In an interview included with the DVD set Ms. Iungerich calls herself "a product of John Hughes," and she shares his ability to heighten and find the humor in teenage life without stretching it beyond recognition.
MDMA also increases production of the antidepressant hormone serotonin, which helps explain the drug's mood-boosting effects and its ability to heighten feelings of awareness and alertness.
McLuhan believed that interconnectivity on such a scale had the ability to heighten human awareness and bring together all political and social functions.
Expression of these miRNAs, which include miR-let7a and miR-21, is linked to increased cell survival and is further potentiated through their own ability to heighten Stat phosphorylation by inducing downstream transcription factors.
When compared to the mock-depleted control, CtIP-depleted cells exhibited a dramatic decrease in the ability of CPT to heighten RPA positivity in cells (Fig. 3A).
What interested him about movies was their ability to tell heightened stories.
Many countries used soaring oil revenues to buy weapons, but a sharp drop in the price of oil has cast doubts on their ability to continue heightened defence spending.
The ability to surprise, heightening the focus on paradox and the contradiction of reality, is therefore more useful than a literal representation of reality.
Despite a few crowd-pleasing moments, Ben Carson did not manage to dispel doubts about his readiness for the presidency -- or his ability to withstand heightened scrutiny from the press.
