Sentence examples for rather than heightening from inspiring English sources

Rather than heightening tension here, the Israeli decision, at least for the moment, relieved it.

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.

We adopted a model of consent that engaged the remaining strengths of participants, rather than heightening their weakness, while ensuring their rights were protected with the professional assistance of advocates.

These findings suggest that the main characteristic of BPD might be negative emotional intensity rather than heightened emotional reactivity.

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.

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.

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.

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.