Sentence examples for heightened almost from inspiring English sources

And of course the script lacks Mr. McCarthy's heightened, almost biblical narrative style.

As its title suggests, she portrays it as a heightened, almost sacred, space.

She had a heightened, almost feverish presence that seemed tantalizingly at odds with the naturalism of film.

The play's theatrical game of hide-and-seek progresses from realism to a heightened, almost mystical, lyricism.

Hemon's painful, tender portrayal of Lazarus's sister is heightened almost unbearably by archival photographs of his skinny, gentle-looking corpse.

Jean-Louis-Andre-Theodore Gericault – A Shipwreck (c1817-18) Gericault's intensely heightened, almost surreal imagination blazes in this painting of a desperate man emerging naked from the sea.

Written between April and September of 1819, these five poems represent the apex of Keats's achievement, because they heighten almost beyond endurance the tension between beauty and death.

An air of informality is heightened when, almost like Mr. Rogers, Fields removes his suit jacket and puts on a cardigan.

His compounds pull meaning into stretched essences: 'the fine-forged mesh of his gleaming mail-shirt'; the sea is called 'the frothing wave-vat'thethe battle-topping helmet'thethe slick-skinned dragon'; 'a frost-stiffened wood.' Heaney is colloquial when he wants to be, but also proceeds as if his language should be heightened, arched, almost frostily dignified: the poem is always a rhetoric.

The heightened tensions almost certainly played a part in the 911 call from the hotel in the town of Avon, which, despite its proximity to Cleveland and its world-famous hospitals that have long treated Arab royalty, including Saudi and Jordanian kings, is a small town of about 22,000 people.

Reprints Related items Israel: No confidenceJun 26th 1997Their anger is heightened by the almost daily clashes with Israelis, above all in Hebron.