Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unacquainted with the automotive industry, little reson to institute such a change at this time. Under the existing full-employment situation, a shorter work week with higher pay would seem only to serve to increase inflation. The attribution of an inflationary influence to the four day work week would heighten the natural resentment of the majority of Americans, working a five-day or sometimes longer week...
...Would the Eisenhower resolution heighten the tensions with Russia...
...Back to the Sea. Here Lorenzo, the husband, is the tortured chap whose marriage is one continual snub from his wife. She doesn't love him and never did. She has taken on a whole string of lovers. Lorenzo knows all this but knowing it only helps to heighten his infatuation. On a picnic by the sea, he tries to win her affection, then tries to take her by force, but he realizes that having her that way would really be a defeat. When she drives off in their car, leaving him stranded, he goes wading along the shore...
Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
Like all but the greatest grotesques, The Rose Tattoo sets out so furiously to heighten the flavors of reality that the meat of the thing is soon lost in its seasoning; and only a moviegoer who can take his peperone straight will be able to judge if the picture is really hot stuff...