Sentence examples for heightens them from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

If anything, it has heightened them.

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

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.

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.

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