Sentence examples for heightened presence from inspiring English sources

The brightness vanishes, and that gives all the subtler colors — the variations of gray on the bark of a maple tree — a heightened presence.

This heightened presence has created a spike in criminal cases along the border, to 14,517 in 1998 from 6,460 in 1994.

For the second straight day, the police maintained a heightened presence in the New York City region's subways, commuter railroads and transit hubs.

It has never seemed entirely a coincidence that in the years since 9/11 the dead have maintained a heightened presence on dramatic television, haunting and comforting and emboldening the living as ghosts and dreams and symbols of inextinguishable memory.

The tension between spontaneity and staging gives Dupont's subjects — a man with a fistful of cash, a girl with cartons of eggs, a B-boy wannabe in a bucket hat — a heightened presence.

While there were dangers inherent in this shift, and while cinema could uphold what he called "the phony spell of a commodity," its shocks might also lead to a "heightened presence of mind".

In this roiling storm, Mr. White was widely seen as a stabilizing presence as he extended protection to the children and imposed order through a heightened police presence.

There's also a heightened police presence around Westminster where students will be marching later.

Most everyone on the van attributed Giuliani's success to heightened police presence.

Gang-related shootings in the area had drawn a heightened police presence.

There was little evidence of anger on the streets because of the heightened police presence.