#heighten

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

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

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

#age #because #being #difficult #dramas

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

#coverage #foreign #heightened #inevitably #our

Being unprepared heightens nerves. ↗

— James Galway

#heightens #nerves #unprepared

The quality of life decreases with heightened security. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#heightened #life #quality #quality of life #security

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

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

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#external #heighten #imperfect #poetry #value

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good #heightens #itself #man #power

How goodness heightens beauty! ↗

— Milan Kundera

#goodness #heightens #how