#heighten

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. ↗

— Tom C. Clark

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The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

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