Sentence examples for the heightened intensity from inspiring English sources

These wines seem somewhere between the heightened intensity of the best California wines and the more spare European style, but styles can vary.

With the heightened intensity of a war, the airport -- with its repeated scenes of leave-taking and reunions -- can at times be a place of emotional complexity.

Ships and storms were all the rage in Dutch Golden Age art, but here Rembrandt shows his originality by raising a "genre" scene to the heightened intensity of history painting.

In the latest sign of the campaign's heightened intensity, Mr. McCain's surrogates responded within minutes and called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark.

The dancing dolls, like the vivid servants in the kitchen and (above all) the mice, have a heightened intensity that makes them more real and less daft than the formally polite grown-ups.

"Simple pleasures," she writes, "took on a heightened intensity: the smell of camel milk in a smoke-cleansed gourd, the thin yelling of Somali singing on five sad notes, the purple hieroglyphs of shadow on the sand below a thorn tree".

Modern social media give the false impression of heightened intensity, enabling those who want to fight to do so from a safe, anonymous distance.

Watching the very first shot, where ordinary, sweet, and sad action in a bar is both parsed with a laser-analytical angle and virtually framed by a voice from offscreen, I thought I was watching the greatest film in the history of cinema, and the entire sequence, with its quietly heightened intensity of ordinary degradation, does nothing to disappoint.

Brosius does not think the games will be played with a heightened intensity, at least not early in the season.

But he seems to be responding to the understandable diminishing of his vocal resources with heightened intensity.

The time that you're out there on stage playing, it's a period of heightened intensity, difficult and exhilarating at the same time.