Sentence examples for seemed heightened from inspiring English sources

That prospect seemed heightened by Wednesday's boycott.

Almost everything about the aftermath of the South Korean ferry disaster – except, tragically, the initial response – has seemed heightened, intense, on the very edge.

It was magical to hear it, and the experience seemed heightened by the fact that it was purely audible, uncluttered by the visual.

The bounce back of 2014, inevitable though that had seemed, heightened focus upon McIlroy once again; as did the Augusta appearance of a crimson-haired Caroline Wozniacki, who never seemed to relish playing understudy to her then-fiance.

That illustrated the rising fear among professional investors, which seemed heightened by the uncertain prospects for the bailout bill.

The majority of reports picked up on the fact that the arrest rate had been unusually high (43 people) as well as the number of police officers that had been injured – also alarmingly high at 21. UKTek has a historically complicated relationship with the law, with illegal raves suffering the same fate in 2008 and 2010, yet something about last weekend's event seemed heightened.

At the moment, it seems heightened.

A company spokeswoman, Sarena Regazzoni, said that the number "seems heightened but not excessive".

During the evening, its resemblance to a small city, full of different esthetic neighborhoods, spaces and moods, seems heightened.

The fear of caving in to American demands seems heightened by a more general anxiety about anything that smacks of occupation after decades of Soviet rule.

Both Crystal and Leo are unstable, but their emotional lurches and outbursts seem heightened and deepened by their sense of blood guilt and their fear of capture.