Sentence examples for heightened figures from inspiring English sources

It is also salted with the sort of slightly heightened figures for whom their author has a particular fondness, characters who perform mundane jobs with an almost superhuman talent or fervor.

Fears that "austerity fatigue" is setting in among voters were heightened after figures were released showing that Spain – the country thought to be next in line for a bailout – has slid back into recession.

The figures heightened fears over the sustainability of America's recovery and the prospect of Europe's recession dragging on.

Today's figures heightened fears of a deep recession for the world's biggest economy, as consumer spending makes up two thirds of total economic activity in the US.

The sculpture of Balzac is forceful enough in the flesh, or in the stone, but Steichen's photograph makes it more brooding still, adopting a low angle that heightens the figure's bullish thrust against a drapery of dusk.

The series uses the silkscreen's mechanical process to heighten the figure-ground relationships.

In the final painting, however, the figures, though sculpturally conceived, project an agitation heightened by the emaciated figure of St. Jerome and the radically conceived figure of the crucified Christ.

The release of the figures has heightened calls for Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to offer financial support to care homes in the autumn statement.

Recent denunciations of Twitter by leading Saudi religious figures have heightened concern amongst the millions of Saudis who use such services that the authorities want to limit or close their access to such freedoms.

These aggressive cancer cells do not show heightened proliferative capacity (Supplementary Figure S1A) but exhibit high migratory, invasive, and tumor-forming capacity compared to the less aggressive cancer cells.

We find that the BRAFV600E mutation was only slightly predictive of GDC-0973 response and only with regards to total FDG uptake rather than cell-normalized values; our findings are in agreement with the finding that RAS mutant cell lines have heightened resistance to MEK inhibition (Figure 1B; Additional file 1: Figure S1B).