Sentence examples for rather than heightened from inspiring English sources
These findings suggest that the main characteristic of BPD might be negative emotional intensity rather than heightened emotional reactivity.
And it is worth considering that the motivation for this apparently has its genesis in occupational health and safety rather than heightened cultural awareness.
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.
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.
Brushing aside evidence that the state deliberately singled out religious conduct, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel treated the regulations as "neutral" (concerning religion) and "generally applicable" and thus applied rational-basis review rather than heightened scrutiny.
Upon the realization that the drawdown was more due to temporary technical difficulties in offloading tankers at Gulf coast ports rather than heightened consumption, prices began to erode once more.
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.
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.
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.
