The phrase "quickened heartbeat" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a description of a physical response to an experience, such as fear, excitement, or anticipation. For example: As the starting gun sounded, the sound of the stadium erupted, and she felt a quickened heartbeat.
Ephedra can cause a quickened heartbeat and elevated blood pressure.
For instance, the "God" cylinder was like a quickened heartbeat.
The brothers of friends fell into two categories: either they were astoundingly good looking, five years older, completely unattainable, a quickened heartbeat as we crossed in the kitchen, or they were goblins with acne.
Sometimes he finds that his body anticipates their arrival with sweat and a quickened heartbeat before his mind consciously registers any sign of their appearance.
The DSM-5 describes hypochondriasis as the "preoccupation with fears of having a serious medical illness based on misinterpretations of benign (or minor) bodily sensations". To a hypochondriac, a headache means a brain tumor, a quickened heartbeat means a heart attack, and a mole means melanoma.
Despite its hard-charging elements, the story unfolds almost languidly, and it is clear that Pelecanos, a seasoned novelist and a writer for "The Wire," means to provoke more than quickened heartbeats.
Most strikingly, the entire production is infused with an anxiety-inducing soundscape (by Elizabeth Rhodes), which alternates among paranormal radio music, the goose-pimply sounds of static and a dull, quickening heartbeat.
(Lighting and video design are by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew). Most strikingly, the entire production is infused with an anxiety-inducing soundscape (by Elizabeth Rhodes), which alternates among paranormal radio music, the goose-pimply sounds of static and a dull, quickening heartbeat.
Rather it is their estimated $970 billion in annual purchasing power by 2007 that has quickened the heartbeat of the country's top brass.*.*
The reflex slows your heart, but the physiological response to stress is a quickening heartbeat.
The feel of the quickening heartbeat from a nervous sniper in the game SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals was distinctly different from the receding hoofbeats of horses in the Legend of Dragoon.
