Sentence examples for heightens it by from inspiring English sources

Although Mr. Eggers's eagerness to continually footnote his narrative -- like a smart-aleck kid telling you why he knows he's going to get into trouble, so you can give him points for being clever and cute -- can be intensely irritating, his use of pomo gimmickry does not undercut the emotion of his story but somehow heightens it by throwing the passages of earnest sentiment into high relief.

Sometimes he heightened it by sticking his tongue out at us over his upper teeth".

America faces a problem, a dilemma so fundamental that not even the political skills of Barack Obama can disguise it, heightened by, but not originating in the BP affair: She either risks her environment by drilling for more domestically sourced oil, or she accepts the need to import more from a turbulent world – jeopardising her "energy security".

Yeo heightens its effect by setting it against the pale blue suit.

In Mr. Cromer's staging the artifice of theater that Wilder sought to strip away — by heightening it, paradoxically — is even further dissolved by the immersion of the actors in the audience, or the audience in the playing space, depending on how you look at it.

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

Like the bore who informs you that he's going to tell you a funny story, it heightens anxiety by providing you with a sort of moral obligation to laugh.

While such a requirement sounds like a way to reduce risk in the market by ensuring that only players with deep pockets are allowed in, some analysts say it heightens risk by eliminating competition and allowing the system to be dominated by institutions that are too big and politically interconnected to fail.

Theoretically it heightens orgasm by cutting off oxygen to the brain, inducing a sense of dizziness and a rush.

The visual sense of mystery in the TCPG is heightened by the complexity of its spaces.

VanDerWerff commented favorably, "For the few minutes that number was on the screen, Glee was nearly everything it could be, blending fun music with insane production values and characters coming to certain emotional realizations in the moment, heightened as it is by the music".