Sentence examples for device to heighten from inspiring English sources

The writers use Kitty's political views as a device to heighten family tensions, but they don't fit the character's personality.

Haydn often used silence as a musical device to heighten suspense and humor, as in the opening Allegro assai of this work, his earliest minor-key symphony and one of many works he wrote at the Esterhazy court.

Homophobia, when it is presented as an issue at all, is used as a plot device to "heighten the drama", or to show the purity of the leads' love.

Rather than just interacting with a mouse, the project lets you use two devices simultaneously to heighten the experience and make the viewer a firsthand participant in the action.

There are stretches of voice-over narration and moments when characters speak directly into the camera, but these devices, which might be ironical or distancing, instead serve to heighten the sense of vigor and immediacy.

(To heighten this effect, he often employs an unfashionable device: first-person voice-over).

"To heighten the flow," he said.

To heighten the joke, have kids.

The effect is to heighten the horror.

It's a trick to heighten sensitivity.

It's only to heighten the experience.