Sentence examples for heightened play from inspiring English sources

For him, life was heightened play, a constant lively curiosity about the world and its manifestations.

Berg heightened the play with music.

They seem like figures in a sketch as the night's heightened dramas play out, and several characters learn "that the world was a perilous and random place, that life could go sour without warning".

"There are a number of players (in the squad) who play outwith Scotland, but I think it's very clear that your chances of playing for Scotland are greatly heightened by playing for Edinburgh and Glasgow.

"Your chances of playing for Scotland are greatly heightened by playing for Edinburgh and Glasgow," said Nicol.

It could be more heightened still, playing up the wired, sinister strangeness of the scenario.

But Nunn uses the colonial setting to heighten the play's suppurating tensions.

Mr. Lloyd, who directed a dazzling "Duchess of Malfi" at the Old Vic last summer, doesn't stint on the derring-do factor and heightens the play's appeal to the inner Robin Hoods of bookish boys.

Warchus duly heightens the play's nightmarish quality: the action begins with an ominous curtain of rain and the first reference to the dead child is accompanied by a tingling pause and distantly sounding strings.

While modern dress heightens the play's topicality, including its obsession with nationhood and women's resistance to male manipulation, it leads to occasional coarseness in the adaptation, such as Mortimer's declaration to Mary: "I want to be inside you".

"You have to have a heightened confidence to play that way," Billups added.