Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type in the write-up text as well as the headlines, and what is more significant, the names of all lesser men will be rigorously, and perhaps conspicuously, omitted. The effect of these two rules naturally will be to exalt the Leader even more; and in consequence it may heighten the belief of the populace that when he passes, there will be none to replace him and things will go rapidly to pot. While that idea if accepted would be convenient for Mussolini, no doubt, it seems a hazardous thing to place a nation's hope in the hands...
...seems, will go to certain selected pictures in company with their teachers. They will then discuss them in class, when particular characters will be pointed out to them as highly virtuous, whereupon they will collectively admire these characters. The result, according to the pedagogues, will be greatly to heighten the taste of the future movie public...
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters: the sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last...
...other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks-the cameramen of New York Harbor-by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above...