Rather than heightening tension here, the Israeli decision, at least for the moment, relieved it.
These findings suggest that the main characteristic of BPD might be negative emotional intensity rather than heightened emotional reactivity.
It shrinks rather than heightens the oddity of Willy Wonka, and its sole purpose is to crank up the director's obsession with parenthood.
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 tempo never felt quite calibrated in that symphony's second movement, one of the composer's most beautiful adagios, and elsewhere, too, there was a sense of perpetual adjustment and instability that slackened rather than heightened the drama.
Britten's acuity of word-setting is lacking, though, and Tchaikowsky's tendency to use the spoken word at points of high tension diminishes rather than heightens their impact.
I lost count of the times variants of "scars on their backs, buttocks and legs" cropped up, but found the replication of Casement's meticulous note-taking deadened rather than heightened the horror.
