Sentence examples for heightened them from inspiring English sources

If anything, it has heightened them.

Triangle and other big outfits prided themselves on rising above the swarming petty capitalists below, but they had not escaped the contradictions of a hypercompetitive industry, only heightened them.

The reveal about Santana hasn't washed away her less savory qualities; indeed, it's heightened them, to a degree, as she struggles to be true to herself and still maintain her status as the hottest girl in school".

But there may be smart ways to defuse the risks instead of heightening them.

He's essentially a voluptuary whose temperament runs to big emotions and the purplish prose that heightens them.

By instinct as a writer, I isolate characters in order to heighten them, and the truth is there wasn't one white boy in Boerum Hill, there were fifteen or twenty.

But the rest of the car takes now familiar Volvo cues — the slender hood, sprinter's stance, flared rear haunches and a pert, cliff-hanging rear deck — and heightens them to create the prettiest Volvo sedan yet.

The moral outlines of Wright's principal subject matter were so vivid when he wrote his books that efforts to complicate them would have seemed irresponsible and efforts to heighten them melodramatic.

Mr. Cunningham catches the characteristics of a species, then heightens them in one way or another: he colors a sea lion mauve or puts a quizzical expression into a grasshopper's eye.

In fact, it heightens them.

I think that you take normal human obstacles and heighten them.