heightening

How To Use heightening In A Sentence

• My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
• Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
• Friday's letter, however, states that Thomas actually did report the sources of his wife's income until 1997, therefore heightening the inference that the justice had not "misunderstood the reporting instructions," as he asserted in January when he filed seven pages of addenda correcting his omissions over a six-year period. Clarence Thomas Assailed For Alleged Ethical Lapses By More House Dems
• Every heightening of emotion produced for her a new effusion of beauty in visible things, and with it the sense that such moments should be lingered over and absorbed like some unrenewable miracle. The Reef; a novel
• At most periods in the history of opera, composers have valued and exploited the scope of the chorus for complementing and heightening the functions of principals and orchestra.
• vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv. Pneumatologia
• Dreams pervade the play, giving it an illusionary quality and heightening the sense of dark hilarity that frequently has the audience hysterical with laughter.
• Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
• Her face was slightly flushed, the royal blue of her gown heightening the fairness of her skin and the glow of love in her eyes.
• In addition, the development of the public utility requires lowering the cost and heightening the efficiency.