Sentence examples for heightened tone from inspiring English sources

This continuously heightened tone can be exhausting, like reading the best, climactic moments of dozens of novels one after the other.

Already Utopia feels more than the sum of these parts: a fully realised world with a distinct look, and a heightened tone that's confident enough to cut from humour to gore to big thriller moments.

It is especially open to a heightened tone, the tone of self-awareness and self-knowledge being forced on to the page as though after a struggle, the tone of things being said for the very first time.

In the final analysis it seems as if Buber always remained the well-groomed, affected, prodigiously gifted, pampered Viennese boy, displaced in a land of horses and chemists, whose best company were the works of his own imagination and whose self-staging overtures to the outside world were always tainted by his enthusiasm for words and for the heightened tone of his own prodigious voice.

Travel seems to offer Kleinzahler an array of heightened feeling tones.

It does prohibit depression, but also tones down that heightened feeling that a lot of people are in love with--it just levels you out completely.

This gives it heightened flavor.

Although heightened PFM tone has been suggested, the relative contribution of active and passive components of tone remains misunderstood.

He was a key writer on SeaChange, and Rake takes on a bit of that program's melodrama and heightened dramatic tone.

The rebels have become increasingly defensive over the hardening European line and the heightened antiterrorism tone of the American government and Mr. Pastrana's administration.

Our results do not support the existence of an attenuated autonomic nervous system response to stress in older adults, but rather a heightened sympathetic tone.