Sentence examples for up to heighten from inspiring English sources

Despite this new mess, the reigning monarch delivered a ceremonial speech from her golden throne in the House of Lords, the British parliament's unelected second chamber, with the lighting turned up to heighten her dramatic entrance.

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.

The story generated a cascade of other stories in which Williams allegedly punched up various details to heighten the drama surrounding him.

Some first-time major winners succumb to the pressure to live up to their heightened reputations.

I also picked up some shiitake mushrooms to heighten the meatiness of the dish.

Leone also incorporated music to heighten up the tension and pressure before and during the film's many gunfights.

It's assumed the mainstream or majority public would prefer not to engage with moving material without pumping up the conflict and tension to heighten the drama.

In rodents, hunger appears to heighten sensory perception and speed up mental processing.

"We decided to heighten that," she said, and they came up with Jerri's father, Guy Blank.

To heighten England's sense of injustice, it was Koeman who stepped up to score.

Yet even as profitable commodities, it is made clear to us that our prototype has not been performing up to the heightening expectations.