Sentence examples for heightened speech from inspiring English sources
'heightened speech' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe a particularly passionate or emotional way of speaking. For example, "The activist delivered her speech with heightened speech, her voice rising as she called for social change."
It didn't work, "because the songs – especially our opening number – is really heightened speech, with melody in it.
His recitative is more flexible and expressive than theirs, based on the declamatory melody of his madrigals rather than on their theories about heightened speech.
Some veer to one extreme or the other, either observing all the pitch indications precisely and effectively singing or abandoning the exact pitches altogether and opting for a kind of arch, heightened speech.
His singing was heightened speech, the notes and rhythms always making a direct expressive effect, across a range from care to anger to, in the last act, dumb bewilderment mixed with an emphatic wish still to get to the truth (a word he sang with the tremolo of bursting emotion).
But the effect is conveyed through the musicalization of heightened speech.
These are chanted in syllabic style a type of heightened speech with one syllable to a tone.
The text is written in pugnacious, witty, and whimsical rhyming verse, which the cast performs with a lyrical vigor that doesn't jingle or trot but flows with the mighty current of heightened, emblematic speech.
In a case known as NIFLA v. Becerra, the five conservative justices of the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" should have heightened free speech protections that real doctors and abortion clinics do not.
"What rap is for our culture, iambic pentameter was for the Elizabethans; it is heightening the speech of ordinary people".
To heighten the speech's impact, White House aides chose a venue with historical and political echoes.
Mr. Roosevelt's speech last night reiterating the principles enunciated in the Columbus speech heightened the belief in financial circles that his influence is waning, and day by day his elimination as a factor in the Presidential campaign is growing more certain.
