Faulks is known for gravely romantic historical novels like "Birdsong," about World War I, and "Charlotte Gray," about World War II, in which meticulous reimaginings of momentous events are heightened with love stories of the poignant, doomed, "Brief Encounter" variety so beloved by his countrymen.
If anything, the experiment only heightened my love for Applebee's and all chain restaurants.
And that's where, as an art-form, opera's true engagement with the world is to be found: in heightening the love stories, myths, tragedies, and comedies of human existence, opera is more real than real life.
They frolic on the beach and sip martinis on the terrace, their love heightened by the backdrop of an endless playground.
Later, as the music moves toward its final heightened declaration of love between the swan queen and her prince, Ms. Doisneau changes to a different stance and is still again.
"It's rare to do a film about love, love from a heightened spiritual version of life," rhapsodises Bernal.
But it can often feel that the luxury of time has been accompanied by a heightened, commensurate craving for love: Part of the modern condition is wondering who might love us and how that love might be more perfectly expressed, and animals' new duty is to answer both of those problems, to make this loneliest of ages feel a little less lonely.
I'd never noticed the violence against women that is demonstrated right at the very top of Romeo and Juliet, while Robin Arthur's version of As You Like It is delivered so deadpan that the utter absurdity of human beings in love becomes heightened.
I love the heightened reality that characters live in". Hooked on being onstage since her first ballet performance when she was four, Hamilton said her dreams are "unchartered," but always big.
Transition didn't change that, but mostly heightened it testosterone made me love women even more and that extended into any sort of femme-ness.
I loved what heightened language could do in a scene, and being able to have a character explore inner decision-making and psychology with an audience.
