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Dr Johnson thought that this was the misanthrope's condign punishment: "At last his anger was heightened into madness".

But the best film she made was Max Ophüls's Letter from An Unknown Woman (1948), in which her nervous romanticism was heightened into heroism.

Here and there, through the suggestive play of the camera, it has even been heightened into breathtaking melodrama.After foraging out to sweep the wide desolation of an English moorland the camera stays indoors in the remote manor where a retired music hall actress is living quietly with only her numerous piquant memories and a companion housekeeper.

Let me try again: It's the fierceness itself, the gusto with which banal human problems — an awful mother or a philandering husband, adulterous longings or a schoolgirl crush — are heightened into glamour and tragedy, that is the soul of melodrama.

The controversy around it was heightened when a report into the disaster by Lord Cullen judged that the operator Occidental Petroleum had used inadequate maintenance and safety procedures.

Speculation that Armstrong will eventually find his way into politics was heightened when the White House confirmed yesterday that he had taken a telephone call from George W Bush, a fellow Texan, shortly after finishing his final Tour in Paris.

But some of Mr. Cobb's friends suggested that because the sense of going into daily battle was heightened for black men in business, so were frictions at home.

Everything was heightened.

The outcome for these groups was heightened deprivation extending beyond the immediate impacts of the eruption and evacuation of the south into the medium-term.

Attention was heightened by terrorist threats.

It was heightened but realistic.