Sentence examples for deliberately heightened from inspiring English sources

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There is real sadness in some of her characters, instead of deliberately heightened rural dolour – and it winds up as a love story that would please Jane Austen.

With a few exceptions, he has always printed in black and white, with deliberately heightened contrast; "so that the thing really comes at you - a kind of hit and run.

Annigoni, whose portraits are classical in the Florentine manner, has chosen to paint his sitter as a bareheaded girl wrapped in the dark-blue velvet of the Garter mantle and standing in a deliberately heightened symbolic loneliness against a little English landscape of sky, trees and river.

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Before making his lead, however, he requested a bathroom break, deliberately heightening the tension in the Vugraph theater.

The England and Wales Cricket Board's chief executive, David Collier, conceded the tensions of the preceding 24 hours – since Butt issued claims that England players received "enormous sums of money" to lose deliberately – had contributed to the heightened tension.

In 1777 he exhibited at the Royal Academy the well-known Mrs. Graham, C.F. Abel, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, all deliberately glamorous and painted in richly heightened colour.

It is also expressed in a particular verbal style that has been dominant in British comedy and criticism for a couple of decades now, and of which Moran is a prominent proponent: ebullient, bug-eyed, prone to deliberately unwieldy metaphors and language at once childlike and ironically formal, hectically heightened to evade any suspicion of sentimentality or solemn self-regard.

In the end, all three leads fall woefully short of the mark — deliberately so, I suspect, as if Lord Lloyd Webber had no desire to see his masterwork hijacked, or even heightened, by the presence of an incontrovertible star.

Contrasting deliberately artificial visuals (in the style of 1950s Technicolor Hollywood melodramas) with dead earnest emotions, Mr. Almodóvar's film exuded, hilariously but hauntingly, the heightened passions we associate with opera.

Your emotions are surely heightened.

The Americans heightened the pressure.

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