Sentence examples for surprise heightening from inspiring English sources

The ability to surprise, heightening the focus on paradox and the contradiction of reality, is therefore more useful than a literal representation of reality.

Even by Pakistan's high standards of political intrigue Shahabuddin's short-lived nomination came as a surprise and heightened concerns that a government at loggerheads with powerful state institutions, including an increasingly assertive judiciary and a military that has long disliked PPP rule, will struggle to remain in power much longer.

McCloskey also employs this page break method to heighten surprise.

The two black shoes delay, ever so slightly, our perception of the gun as a gun, thereby heightening the surprise.

Our passage through this almost-dead zone heightened the surprise a few hours later when we reached the river city of Krasnoyarsk.

The ruggedness of the approach to the 300-acre estate, a gravel road that snakes along a ravine above the Kentucky River, only heightens the surprise of arriving at what appears to be a pocket-size Georgian country seat.

Uncertainty about the company was heightened after the surprise purchase of a stake by Novartis.

The impact of the play's moving third act is heightened by a surprise Mr. Cromer springs when Emily Webb Jennifer Gracee), the clever girl of Act I and nervous bride of Act II, joins her mother-in-law in the cemetery but is given a chance to relive a single day in her life.

What especially heightened my delight and surprise by this heartwarming response was a humbling experience that occurred just a few months earlier (before my own diagnosis).

When the news came as a surprise for pwMS, the confusion was heightened by a lack of understanding about how the diagnosis had been reached.

Heighten the joke's surprise factor.