Kate Herron

You know, 'Jurassic Park' is a film I always go back to a lot - it's a fantastical world, but I care about all the characters in that situation, and then I think in caring about them, it can make it relatable and help me kind of see this heightened world through, not always familiar eyes, but at least eyes I can understand.

Jean Houston

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

American Author

Gina Miller

In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament's disposal to ensure a fair balance of powers.

Guyanese Activist

Ali Wong

You become like a vampire when you're pregnant: your senses are so sensitive, and your emotions are so heightened - that helps with performance because you really feel things.

American Actress

Johnny Depp

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

American Actor

Helen Clark

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

New Zealander Statesman

Jordan Peele

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

Jon Watts

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

American Director

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Roman Writer

Rebecca Miller

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

Use 'heighten' when speaking about making a physical object taller, not when making abstract concepts taller.

Physical Alteration

'Heighten' often relates to improving sight or perspective by increasing elevation.

Visual Clarity

'Heighten' can describe the amplification of feelings or atmosphere in a situation.

Emotional Impact

In storytelling, 'heighten' is commonly used to describe increasing tension or suspense.

Tension and Suspense

'Heighten' can refer to the process of improving skills or abilities over time.

Skill Enhancement

Use 'heighten' to express qualitative rather than quantitative improvement.

Qualitative Improvement

Use 'heighten' to refer to the worsening or intensifying of conflicts and disputes.

Conflict Escalation

Describes making problems or negative situations more serious or pronounced.

Problem Amplification

Primarily used to talk about adding size or length to tangible, physical items.

Physical Increase

Use 'heighten' when you want to talk about making something more visually appealing.

Aesthetic Enhancement

'Heighten' is often associated with improving artistic or creative works.

Artistic Impact

 are the visible parts that we rightly celebrate. However, only when we look deeper, under the water, are we able to focus on the common values that connect us. In what seems to be an increasingly troubled world, where social and political systems are being stretched, conflict within and between countries is at times heightened,

Greeting the world in...

 Now, what I want you to do is look directly at me, OK, just take a deep breath in through your nose, letting it out through your mouth, and relax. Allow your eyes to close, on five, four, three, two, one. Close your eyes right now. OK, now, I'm not hypnotizing you, I'm merely placing you in a heightened state of synchronicity,

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 whether it's song lyrics combining perfectly with a melody, the thematic content of a painting heightened by its use of colors and brushstrokes, or the well constructed plot of a novel conveyed through perfectly crafted sentences. Most importantly, the network of associations formed by ideasethesia

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 So why do we remember some things and not others? Well, there are a few ways to influence the extent and effectiveness of memory retention. For example, memories that are formed in times of heightened feeling, or even stress, will be better recorded due to the hippocampus' link with emotion.

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 Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life

The benefits of a...

 which when you come to think of it as a weird bit of mystery terminology to use for this story among all the theories out there none involve a gun smoking or otherwise but the search for that so-called smoking gun has definitely heightened the story into a kind of true

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 But there might be another reason. The next time you're in a heightened emotional situation, like the ones that make Shakespeare's characters burst into verse, put your hand over the left side of your chest. What do you feel? That's your heart beating in iambs.

Why Shakespeare loved...

 change the world but it's powerful because can change the way that you see the world so my fifth lessons you is to savor every moment I find that I my very best version of myself when I met Ted I more engaged I've heightened awareness

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 i have never seen anything like this in my life if she gets any closer guys don't move a muscle knowing that she's perfectly capable of springing into the back of our truck in an instant certainly heightens the nerves

Nail-Biting Leopard...

 That's three times more than humans. Do these huge brains translate into a heightened intelligence? What emotions do elephants feel? And why is the herd so important for their survival?

Heighten

To make higher or taller.

To make stronger or more intense.

To improve or refine.

To make more acute or severe.

To make longer or larger.

To beautify or adorn.

Physical Alteration

Visual Clarity

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