The only reminders of a spirited and clamorous parade a day earlier were a few blue wooden barricades lying on the sidewalk that had been part of heightened crowd-control efforts by the police.
This time around, the pleasure they get from playing games with each other's diverse experiences and harmonic resources led them toward more private dialogues, but the on-stage intimacy only heightened the crowd's anticipation of how long it would be before Maiden Voyage or Spain turned up.
The cars keep coming for hours and hours, and simply heighten the crowds' sense of anticipation.
The crisis heightened when large crowds spilled out in recent weeks to protest American beef imports.
All of this questionable activity, combined with the rowdy crowd, only heightened the anticipatory mood: during many of the best boxing matches, like this one, the possibilities seem broader and the consequences more stark; something — anything — could happen.
Fears have been heightened by the serious crowd trouble at the recent French cup final, played between old rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille at the Stade de France.
Free flags, tambourines and bottles of the world's best known cola drink which were being handed out to the crowd only heightened their enthusiasm.
The rush of realizing I'd been picked out of the crowd was heightened by the violence of this intrusion into my digital world.
At busier airports like La Guardia and Kennedy, crowds and heightened security measures can create long lines.
Mr. Donaldson, 50, commutes to his job to New York every day from Philadelphia, yet he said he would brave the crowds and heightened security and somehow get to work, regardless of the conventioneers.
But the number of victims, and the coverage, was heightened due to the crowds attending festivities for the Bayou Classic, a traditional Thanksgiving weekend football game.
