The arbitrary arrest of the cardinal, the pressure put on his judges, and his final disgrace deepened the impression of the king's weakness and the autocratic nature of his government.
The fact that Lord Howell is the father-in-law of Britain's Conservative chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, an advocate of fracking, only deepened the impression of a north-south contest cemented in place by political rivalries.
In the hours before Obama's speech, a series of news reports and document dumps concerning the role of Russian interference on Trump's behalf only served to deepen the impression of disorder.
You could argue that Haas and his screenwriter, Wendell Steavenson, have planned this deliberately, so as to deepen the impression of a country snarled up in loose ends — how can you hope to impose democratic discipline, after all, when a single dumb crime goes unsolved?
Their effort to disenfranchise poor, black, Hispanic, and student voters in many states deepens the impression that Romney's remarks about the "forty-seven per cent" were a matter not of "inelegant" expression, as he later protested, but of genuine conviction.
A final in which the losing team gets clobbered for 40 minutes deepens the impression, maybe unfairly, that the women's game lacks what any sport needs: lots of sharp, down-to-the-wire competition.
But in fact he does so little with the 3D that it only deepens the impression that Every Thing Will Be Fine is a missed opportunity.
It was one of a number of cases that have deepened the impression that, in the words of the former Black Fern and current MP Louisa Wall, the attitudes of rugby players in the country "have fallen behind society".
"What Republicans are doing for themselves right now," Mr. Garin added, "is deepening the impression that they are the party of Big Oil".
The forthcoming inquiry into his finances is likely to deepen the impression that the Teamsters, long affiliated with the Mob, remain rotten despite half a decade of efforts to reform them.
