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At times of heightened threat perception, the assertion of values mounts and subsumes careful calculation of interests.
They did, if anything, give vent to heightened animosity between the two peoples.
This may have heightened its profile but it will take a lot longer to tell if it has any impact on rates of abortion and teenage pregnancy.
In a time of heightened security one would think they would know where all the luggage was.
In the modern state of heightened wariness, staring like a dullard sounds no more demeaning than walking in your socks through airport security.
They're warning of a heightened possibility of an eruption after more than a thousand small earthquakes.
His acceptance of the situation had dissolved and his confusion heightened once again.
The washout heightened expectations for the five-match series against the world's top-ranked teams starting at Wellington tomorrow.
The heart rate and breathing quickens, muscles become tense and senses become heightened.
Despite the heightened joblessness, 29 percent believe they'll still have trouble finding suitable employees.
Still, the opposition expressed this week has a heightened level of adamance.
There was a heightened feeling of cosiness away from the dreary wetness outside.
Erianne always set his senses on heightened alarm, even now when she was an emotional whirlwind.
One side effect of the heightened interest in health issues is that medical studies in specialist publications now reach a wider public.
Acid reflux has been associated with bronchospasm, heightened bronchial reactivity, and airway edema.
With the emergence and spread of AIDS in Japan in the 1980s, insensitivity toward gay men heightened.
The coldest peaks of winter usually occur in August and September, so many fear a heightened emergency.
He wanted something heightened, very stylized, and a sense of twisted kink to get across his message.
As the diary amply reveals, few authors have worked so long with such a heightened awareness of the gap between living and writing.
The style is heightened by the restrained color palette and decidedly retro feel to the animation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The effect of the play was heightened by the splendid acting of bocage and Marie Dorval.
The rose again mantled on her cheek, but the blush was heightened to damask.
The cruel sensations of Imogen were not aggravated by despair, but heightened by hope.
The heightened stature of women was a favourite topic in anthropometric circles long before the War.
The eyes, either closed in sleep or appearing to be, heightened the effect.
Perhaps this is heightened by the contrast between the pretty, trim form of the ladybird and the ugliness of the assassin bug.
They are drawn with Indian ink, and the two first touched with bistre and heightened with white.
This effect was heightened by generously broad hands and feet and a contrastingly abbreviated chin.
As a result there is a marked depression at the coronet, the depression being heightened in effect by the exostosis in front.
Your reputation, both for head and heart, as I hinted before, will be heightened.
The picture of the zoological interests of kangaroo island is heightened by Flinders' account of the seals and marsupials.
The charms of Imogen had been in turn heightened with joy, and mellowed with distress.
Her beauty was not heightened now, but it was displayed with all the grave consciousness of an unassertive renown.
The effect of powerful erosion, incident upon uplift, is heightened by the ungraded character of the river bed.
The merriment of the season is materially heightened by the making of the mochi.
Mme. morrel cast down her eyes and a heightened color overspread her charming face.
But if we allow ourselves to be carried away by heightened emotions, or by wrought-up feelings, we may develop fanaticism.
The farce of their performance is heightened by ragging from the courtiers.
Exercise had given a brilliant hue to her cheeks, and heightened the effect of her singularly transparent skin, and golden hair.
I observed her heightened colour, something pronouncedly resolute in her tone.
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