encompasses heightened elements of queer popular culture, the star hopes the final film is more in line with "American Pie" than a gay-specific romp like "The Birdcage".
Constantly playing with scale and abstraction, José Lerma's layered paintings heighten the elements of a portrait to surrealist extremes.
Drawing viewers in not only with preternatural mystique, but further heightening this element of the odd with an unintelligible scripted language, yet another nod to Codex. .
The Angels (including one who doubles as the Boy) seem deliberately shrouded in obscurity by Mr. Crimp to heighten an element of mystery, but they also supply a contemporary perspective, which sometimes touches the story as well.
The staging was modern, and made use of projected floor plans, to heighten the element of farce as lovers hid and entered and exited rooms.
The American athletes' ability to compartmentalize, to snap a sort of Tupperware lid over their distractions when the competition begins, will be crucial in dealing with the heightened emotions and unusual elements of this Olympics.
While the personal dynamics of the Brody family and the troubled C.I.A. officer Carrie Mathison in "Homeland" served to heighten the suspense, the mystery elements of "Prisoners of War" were a backdrop for complex character studies and melancholy family drama.
Someone else might have made Rosalie more abrasive or her motives more identifiably anti-establishment, thus heightening the faint element of cultural condescension at the heart of this West German-born film maker's vision of desolate, merchandise-mad Americana.
Beyond is a predominantly narrative experience that has introduced elements of interactivity in order to heighten the emotional involvement of the player/viewer/interactee.
Around 2007-08, as he and Mills went through their spectacularly acrimonious divorce and McCartney took up with Nancy Shevell, all these elements of his public persona became heightened signifiers for his very rarefied lifestyle.
