"As the situation on the Korean peninsula is highly complicated and sensitive, we expect the meeting to ease tensions and promote dialogue, rather then heighten tensions and intensify confrontation," said Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman.
When the smoke clears (which tends to take a while), Mr. Woo's movies almost invariably turn out to be about the mysteries and the sorrows of male camaraderie, as revealed, then heightened, by the threat of violent, untimely demise.
Mr. Cunningham catches the characteristics of a species, then heightens them in one way or another: he colors a sea lion mauve or puts a quizzical expression into a grasshopper's eye.
He then heightens this by showing how the theatrical becomes theatrical: through the extension of a performer's arm, some music, a little choreographed step out into the blue.
On that first page we meet Esther Greenwood, whose thoughts start in an ordinary place – the weather, the news, jobs, clothes, boys – and then heighten and fix in images as brilliant and exact as any in Plath's poems.
The importance of physician testimony arose in 1980 with the legislative change and was then heightened by the 1984 reforms.
Since then, heightened security has become an uncomfortable but familiar facet of campus life across the United States.
We just look at how we would feel and then heighten it.
Peacekeepers and pressure from world powers have failed to halt more than two years of violence in CAR, sparked by the emergence of the Seleka insurgency and then heightened by reprisal attacks by the anti-balaka.
Everything had been so heightened.
