Sentence examples for heightened menace from inspiring English sources

France attributed the air of heightened menace to the Administration's attacks on reproductive rights.

Hughes sets the mood with impeccable style, heightening the menace with subtle variations on the same scene: a man, a woman and a deserted street whose silence is suddenly broken by the hollow sound of footsteps in the fog.

Though current events have heightened awareness of the menace of unchecked male sexuality, dicks and dick-adjacent buffoonery are nonetheless central to the charm of "American Vandal".

The government further heightened the sense of menace and need for action by raising the possibility that the jihadists might use chemical and biological weapons.

Seeing Stephen Schwartz's numbers erupt into acrobatic feats only heightened the show's exuberant menace, and the actors (including Andrea Martin, who'll win Best Featured Actress for her role as the hedonistic granny) were as game as they were limber.

The menace of the two men is heightened by frowning stone masks at the edge of the pool.

And in a book populated by dangerously disaffected, sex-deprived, deeply misogynistic men, he heightens the atmosphere of menace.

Opting for a light, benign sense of menace, he heightens the scenes he's in, providing a contrast to the spartan, plain-spoken minimalism of the film.

Lichtenstein's alterations heightened the sense of urgency in the image, however, they also offset that menace by forming a detached work.

Your emotions are surely heightened.

The Americans heightened the pressure.