Sentence examples for quite heightened from inspiring English sources

It might so easily seem preposterous, and Orla O'Loughlin's production isn't quite heightened enough to give this the unworldly, almost mythic edge that it needs to sidestep that accusation, although Fred Meller's design and Michael John McCarthy's sound both suggest something ancient and elemental.

Despite the fact that autism awareness is quite heightened there, and that there are indeed comparable services and the funds to pay for them (I, for instance, have been contracted to speak at more Midwestern conferences than Northeastern conferences) that the culture there was often not so good for spectrum adults.

"Salvador Dalí is a bit mad and has quite a heightened sense of his own importance so he's not always willing to talk to someone as unimportant as a medium," confides a Frieze representative.

"It was such a heightened feeling, quite peaky," Maza says.

At the same time, abnormal or unclear T-wave results have been associated, although not quite as strongly, with heightened risks of having a heart attack.

To then also invalidate Proposition 8, the Court would have to go quite far in applying heightened scrutiny and invalidating the traditional definition of marriage, notwithstanding its professed concerns for states' rights.

Few technologies have been anticipated with quite the same degree of heightened expectation as HDTV.

As the opinion polls have tightened, the "no" camp has resorted to promises of further devolution and efforts to scare the voters, claiming that a "yes" vote would lead to heightened financial uncertainty and, quite possibly, an economic calamity.

And where a heightened sense of anticipation never quite approximates the reality.

Like "House of Cards," that other show about ruthless Washingtonians, "Scandal" takes place in a heightened alternate dimension where politicians are, quite literally, killers.

The constancy of pulse combined with the paralleling of similar but not quite the same timbres compels one to listen with heightened care, which is the path to hearing anything for what it really is.