Although Mr. Eggers's eagerness to continually footnote his narrative -- like a smart-aleck kid telling you why he knows he's going to get into trouble, so you can give him points for being clever and cute -- can be intensely irritating, his use of pomo gimmickry does not undercut the emotion of his story but somehow heightens it by throwing the passages of earnest sentiment into high relief.
In Mr. Cromer's staging the artifice of theater that Wilder sought to strip away — by heightening it, paradoxically — is even further dissolved by the immersion of the actors in the audience, or the audience in the playing space, depending on how you look at it.
"They reveal something important by twisting and heightening it".
Yeo heightens its effect by setting it against the pale blue suit.
America faces a problem, a dilemma so fundamental that not even the political skills of Barack Obama can disguise it, heightened by, but not originating in the BP affair: She either risks her environment by drilling for more domestically sourced oil, or she accepts the need to import more from a turbulent world – jeopardising her "energy security".
The visual sense of mystery in the TCPG is heightened by the complexity of its spaces.
VanDerWerff commented favorably, "For the few minutes that number was on the screen, Glee was nearly everything it could be, blending fun music with insane production values and characters coming to certain emotional realizations in the moment, heightened as it is by the music".
It's just the melodrama is heightened by setting it in a theatre.
South Korea officials, meanwhile, pressed North Korea to return to the status quo of a month ago, before it heightened the crisis by expelling international monitors and removing the seals on containers that had housed nuclear fuel, which could be readily used in weapons production.
The Military Road tightly follows the water all the way to Compton – I'm going to be generous and say it's the UK's Pacific Coast Highway – its urgency only heightened by the fact it's crumbling into the sea at a rate of a metre a year.
