Sentence examples for heightened at a from inspiring English sources

My role involved ensuring the smooth running of a crummy amusement, where expectations were unnecessarily and impossibly heightened, at a time of year abundant with vain attempts to invest in future memories.

Not far away, the reverberations of the killings could also be felt in places like Medford Chemists, where security measures have now been heightened; at a Rite Aid drugstore, where a newly hired security guard carried a picture of the suspect; and at other pharmacies, where workers were reminded how to handle themselves during a robbery.

But police officers were still on the street and said security could be heightened at any time.

Security was heightened at all Broadway theaters, with new restrictions on who is allowed backstage and on the number of exits and entrances opened.

Although a kayaker's vulnerability to collisions is heightened at night, riding an invisible swell in the inky darkness in a precarious kayak without tipping is itself an adrenaline booster, even for an experienced paddler.

"If religion is indeed an evolved domain — an instinct — then it will become heightened at times of stress, when people are inclined to act instinctively, and there is clear evidence for this," Dutton said.

Thorpe's difficulties heightened at the subsequent German leg of the tour in Berlin, when a standoff over a drug-test arose when officials wanted to take an unsealed sample due to lack of containers.

I think security was very tight in this game and I am sure for a while now security will be heightened at every major sporting game that goes on.

Granted, anticipation is heightened at first sight with teeming stage traffic, spiced with references to a glorious city, untrammeled by the ravages of war, and to the "great mystery of the Eastern world".

It was heightened at midweek, when President Andres Pastrana ordered the army to start withdrawing from a large area in the south, to facilitate talks with the larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Anyone who goes from a daily regimen of weed for an extended period of time then takes a break will find that their sensitivity to THC is heightened, at least until you get back into the groove.