As we entered the one referred to as the "Man and Life" building, we became enclosed within a human cell magnified something like a zillion times.
In the Fourth, the differences between piano and forte were magnified to something more like double piano and triple forte, for maximum contrast, and the Fifth had all the right moves, not the least of which was a vigorously played finale.
Whether it's the microscopic artwork from Jon Hopkins' album, Immunity, or these new photos from the annual Cambridge Science Festival that detail microscopic snapshots of scientific phenomenon, there's something satisfying about magnifying seemingly-invisible acts of unique, natural happenings. .
How do we move social media from cheerleaders' chorus or recruiting sergeant to something that opens minds, rather than magnifying the thoughts of closed ones?
Classic songs can transcend and transform a cliché, magnifying a well-trodden phrase or sentiment and making it into something elemental.
Personal loyalties are bought with favors and treachery, hearsay and gossip are magnified by repetition into something more powerful than truth — namely, a media-centered reality unto itself, where the fact that people are saying something takes precedence over whether what they're saying is true or false.
Those losses could magnify into a recession, something a few prescient souls like fellow FORBES columnist Gary Shilling have been warning about for some time.
Use something to magnify your sight to see hairline cracks, etc. Avoid walking on a glass roof when the conditions are not favorable.
If you continually focus on why something will be too hard, the task will seem that much harder because you are magnifying the hard stuff.
It is magnifying the sunbeam.
A lens magnifying an object.
