Sentence examples for heightened life from inspiring English sources

And the person sitting in a Flatiron District tea room -- a petite, nondescriptly pretty 40-year-old in black slacks and sweater and no makeup -- bears little resemblance to the commanding, often bizarre women Ms. Leigh has brought to such heightened life on the screen.

Experience signifies heightened life and active engagement with the world.

How do you resolve the heightened life expectancies, size of population and changing habits (e.g. the westernisation of diets) etc., with decreasing space, food, and clean water to support all these things?

The actress, who had childhood dreams of becoming a funeral director, admits she is morbid, but says she believes the reality of death is comforting because it helps heighten life.

One of the best things that Lowell wrote, at the end of his life, was "sometimes everything I write / with the threadbare art of my eye / seems a snapshot, / lurid, rapid, garish, grouped, / heightened from life, / yet paralyzed by fact".

Immune defence against foreign agents would be expected to be heightened in life cycle stages that are more prone to infection, such as larvae, which are housed in a homeostatic nest environment with a high density of nest-mates and consumable resources [ 33], compared to those that are more protected, such as pupae, which are enclosed in a sealed cocoon.

The strange mutation of familiar garments heightened the powerful life force of her curvaceous forms.

This Wednesday's segment, "French Take Woodland," is a mix of elements from Mr. Evans's life, heightened with parody.

So she persists in contemplating: "Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

But the film's heightened picture of life in the Australian hinterlands was directed by a Canadian: Ted Kotcheff, an underrated shape-shifting filmmaker later responsible for "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," "North Dallas Forty," "First Blood" and "Weekend at Bernie's".

And, as Rebecca L. Davis observes in an astute, engaging, and disturbing history, "More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss" (Harvard; $29.95), the rise of couples counselling has both coincided with and contributed to a larger shift in American life: heightened expectations for marriage as a means of self-expression and personal fulfillment.