"It is a slightly heightened reality.
It didn't have to be real; it just had to be slightly heightened, slightly off.
And for me, "The Hour" has a slightly heightened form, and the characters came out of that.
They are more akin to what Ms. Maclean calls "a slightly heightened reality, part of the fabric of daily life".
When you read Lorrie Moore you find reality ever so slightly skewed, and more than slightly heightened, in a semi-dystopian wonderland.
But I am aware that I am simply an anomaly, someone with a slightly heightened chance of moving up through the class system.
PERSONALLY, I believe no situation is either so tense or so romantic that it can't be just slightly heightened by a good old-fashioned movie-musical number.
India does not need them for deterrence, and they could slightly heighten China's fears that its own weapons might be wiped out before they get off the ground.
It is also salted with the sort of slightly heightened figures for whom their author has a particular fondness, characters who perform mundane jobs with an almost superhuman talent or fervor.
The channel's target audience is women 18 to 34, and it excels at "showing young people's lives slightly heightened, holding a microscope up to a heightened world that feels really fascinating, particularly to women," said Kristen Vadas, CW's head of reality development.
