Sentence examples similar to gradually heightening from inspiring English sources
What it does, brilliantly, is to gradually heighten the tension until you forget you're watching a dumb exploitation flick and start to take it all terribly seriously, before suddenly exploding into the kind of wilful silliness you'd expect to see in a Python movie.
With U.S. prodding, Japan has gradually heightened security at Rokkasho and other nuclear sites, but officials in Washington say they remain worried that the improvements are too slow and incremental.
Poised as though in that half-light between night and morning, heightening consciousness of the muted textures, the music's uneasy feel lifted only gradually, as though a ray of sun finally piercing a veil of mist.
If anything it's heightening.
Music is key when heightening the tension.
Gradually, he found an unexpected groove, riding improved mechanics and heightened self-belief.
In the face of a gradually emerging sense of nationalism, varied forms of personal and group identities took on heightened public significance in the Revolutionary Delaware Valley.
Sidelined by the Belfast peace agreement of 1998, Paisley had to wait as unionist disenchantment with the process – heightened by doubts over republican compliance with the terms of the agreement – gradually turned the tide.
Success, however, heightens expectations.
