Sentence examples for heighten them from inspiring English sources

By instinct as a writer, I isolate characters in order to heighten them, and the truth is there wasn't one white boy in Boerum Hill, there were fifteen or twenty.

The moral outlines of Wright's principal subject matter were so vivid when he wrote his books that efforts to complicate them would have seemed irresponsible and efforts to heighten them melodramatic.

But this time the techno element seems to drive the beats rather than simply heighten them.

I think that you take normal human obstacles and heighten them.

Because of its origins in internal party disputes, the referendum has not quieted divisions in this country but on the contrary -- as we all know -- has served to heighten them and even to create tensions where few or none previously existed.

If anything, it has heightened them.

But there may be smart ways to defuse the risks instead of heightening them.

He's essentially a voluptuary whose temperament runs to big emotions and the purplish prose that heightens them.

They are delicious simply seasoned with salt and pepper, but a finishing sprinkle of tender herbs heightens them further, adding contrasting color and fragrant, garden-fresh flavor.

If anything heightens them, it's a blaring sound collage before the final flight, with dozens of letters recited simultaneously: what the mail sounds like.

But the rest of the car takes now familiar Volvo cues — the slender hood, sprinter's stance, flared rear haunches and a pert, cliff-hanging rear deck — and heightens them to create the prettiest Volvo sedan yet.