Sentence examples for heightened sentimentality from inspiring English sources
Mr. Jurosko prefers operetta to mainstream musicals, because of its heightened sentimentality and more operatic-sounding music.
Like the French and German melodramas typical of the period, the score contained open-ended snippets of background mood music that can be repeated as much as necessary to heighten the sentimentality of the drama, although some have argued that it bears no other resemblance to the typical French melodrama of the period.
But the setting is now the other end of the Baltic in a rundown, unnamed town in the former Soviet Union, and the unsentimental affection has been replaced by a cold eye and an ostentatious resort to a heightened form of Victorian sentimentality.
It is also expressed in a particular verbal style that has been dominant in British comedy and criticism for a couple of decades now, and of which Moran is a prominent proponent: ebullient, bug-eyed, prone to deliberately unwieldy metaphors and language at once childlike and ironically formal, hectically heightened to evade any suspicion of sentimentality or solemn self-regard.
Your emotions are surely heightened.
The Americans heightened the pressure.
They had acquired heightened attention.
Instead, he heightened his attacks.
Other attributes heightened its allure.
"Everyone's awareness is heightened".
