Luckily for Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire), the old woman charged by the state with minding everybody's business speaks some French, but this is a small mercy in a situation whose hellishness is amplified by the impossibility of escape.
The situation in Vietnam is amplified by the integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA) farming system encouraged by the government, which often involves an aquaculture system that is sustained through the addition of human and livestock waste.
Its datedness is amplified by the central situation: the helpless and humiliated prisoners being harangued by a malicious, self-justifying chain-gang boss.
We wanted to find out why people would ever willingly throw themselves into a situation where the intensity and chaos of dating is amplified with time limits and forced interactions.
The significance of this year's election is amplified by the global economic crisis, the unsettled situation in Iraq, and the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
This situation contrasts with MSE, where the (magnitude) spectrum of the speech portions is amplified, possibly making the resulting spectrum quite different from the clean spectrum.
With interim management, however, the importance of strategic thinking is amplified by the need to apply these skills quickly to a range of situations.
When things are bad, everything is amplified.
The thrill is amplified, but also diminished.
It's as if the natural world is amplified.
