Drugs are developed to heighten the power, and porn created to fetishise it.
If he tones down the emotional temperature of his characters' outward expression and keeps his image-making within a narrow spectrum of visual variety, it's to heighten the power and scope of nuance.
The book has an involvingly complex time scheme, rich in a sense of what might be and what might have been, and the natural delicacy of Matar's writing, its concision and reserve, only heighten the power of a gripping and agonising story.
Jacobs presents it without flourishes, without bravado; his wide-eyed restraint only heightens the power of the emotions he shares.
And it will up the ante for entering the race, making it harder for lesser known but rising party stars to run, while heightening the power of lobbyists and insiders who supply early campaign cash.
Murphy has some lovely moments in the film — when he shares a Ritz cracker with his baby son, he's so gentle, it heightens the power of the anger he expresses about losing his own mother to what's apparently a cult.
Several artists created situations that engaged viewers to heighten the expressive power of their messages.
The implication is that diversified income may serve as a means to heighten the purchasing power of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, by which they can easily access staple foods and veterinary services (animal health and artificial insemination).
Even allowing for vintage variations (and 2009 was a warm year that would heighten the fruitiness and power), most Gigondas rarely rise to the level of exalted.
As a backdrop for the Vuitton show, its designer, Marc Jacobs, had an imposing wall of marble erected, to heighten the sense of power evoked by gray double-breasted suits, which to his design staff, Mr. Jacobs said, were reminiscent of the actor Christian Bale's grooming-obsessed Wall Street character in "American Psycho".
Robin Lakoff, a Brooklyn-born linguist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, said that she despised the word, but that enforcing linguistic change through authority "almost never works," echoing comments from some New Yorkers who believed a ban would only serve to heighten the word's power.
