The sun, which may appear frozen at its lowest noontime elevation for several days around the solstice, embodies a stillness that reinforces this heightened time of reflection and spiritual awareness.
The power of the fragments she remembers is heightened by her poignant reflections on the inevitability of forgetting and the possibly deceitful path that her memories traverse.
For many the closed-door, sit-down session is a reflection of heightened expectations that the west's longest running diplomatic row is close to being solved.
The fact that Monday's blast was carried out on the city's fringes rather than its center is regarded as a reflection of heightened security within the city.
She sang "New Speedway Boogie" over a jazzy bass vamp and Larry Campbell's mandolin, in a skeletal arrangement that only heightened the song's philosophical reflections.
On reflection, the pleasures of that hike also heightened the one plaintive note that sounded in Mr. Lynn's stern admonition against visiting the place.
If the Tate is fast becoming the 21st century's monumental cathedral, why not arrange art in places where the atmosphere is already heightened by the accumulation of centuries of prayer and reflection?
The interviews were held in association with a patient seminar, which might have heightened the participants' awareness of PCT and thus affected their reflections.
Some of these will be taken up in more detail in the following section, but the basic point for now is that the three major levels, from the lowest to the highest, are bare perception (without special distinctness or memory), sensation (with heightened distinctness and memory), and thought (with distinctness, memory, and reflection).
The latter is heightened for (3) since the CCD detector was moved farther away for data collection, which reduces reflection intensities especially in the high-angle shells and affects both completeness and redundancy in those shells.
