He depicts style as a mask and mode of deception, and this deceit — and the willful ends that it achieves — doesn't undercut the beauty of style but, rather, heightens it.
Using this intrabody as a tool for modulating the kinetics of amyloidogenesis, we show that escalating aggregate formation of a pathologic huntingtin fragment is not cytoprotective in striatal cells, but rather heightens oxidative stress and cell death as detected by flow cytometry.
And as our planet adds another two billion people over the next 25 years, the dangers, complications, and human demands will not be lessened, but rather heightened.
Compliments and kind gestures never diminish from our own attributes, but rather heighten an awareness for what we appreciate in others and look for in ourselves.
It shrinks rather than heightens the oddity of Willy Wonka, and its sole purpose is to crank up the director's obsession with parenthood.
Rather than heightening tension here, the Israeli decision, at least for the moment, relieved it.
In other passages, however, the second person and the present tense flatten rather than heighten the moment.
There had been a superficial increase in union militancy in the 1970s, but most of it had been about increasing wages rather than heightening class consciousness.
And it is worth considering that the motivation for this apparently has its genesis in occupational health and safety rather than heightened cultural awareness.
Rather than heightening such passion, the production, directed by Ralph Lewis and Barry Rowell, unwisely employs a detached approach, using intentionally absurd double-casting and other techniques in a Brechtian attempt to shift focus from the characters' emotions toward a larger vision.
The use of the present tense can also, paradoxically, flatten out rather than heighten events, so that highs and lows register the same intensity; a dogfight feels no different from, say, someone setting a dinner table.
