Sentence examples for heightens it from inspiring English sources

If anything it heightens it.

There is pressure to look a certain way, and social media heightens it – for men, it's to be really fit and have muscles.

There are touches of sheer brilliance: the intercutting of the discovery of Rebecca's body with a sea shanty, sung by a Greek chorus of fisherman, should diminish the tension of the scene but heightens it.

He depicts style as a mask and mode of deception, and this deceit — and the willful ends that it achieves — doesn't undercut the beauty of style but, rather, heightens it.

Dash films the characters with a blend of physical precision and hieratic grace; there's an ordinary declamation to the dialogue that heightens it even above the everyday grandeur of endurance to the gravity of the moment at hand.

- SARAH LINDSAY, author of "Twigs and Knucklebones" ELEGY IN JULY FOR THE MOTEL ASTRA The desolation without season, summer somehow heightens it, Route 1's course from Maine to Florida Interstate-strangled, this narrow stretch in Virginia wasted as a riverbed drought-hushed.

Being an outcome of both lithology and climate, natural vegetation generally increases resistance to erosion although its absence, perhaps after fire, may heighten it.

But a movie like "The Missing," with its subject, you shouldn't try to somehow heighten it or try to signify that it's an important movie.

If anything, she has heightened it.

The statement hardly quieted suspicion; in fact, it heightened it.

"They reveal something important by twisting and heightening it".