Word: heighten
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...George Kyron, in the role of Mephistopheles, supplied an efficacious verve in facial characteristic and vocal bearing. Richard Kilbride and Harry Cooper, as sixteenth century comedians, were really funny. But the device employed most efficiently by the company was in the lighting, handled by Duvey himself, which served to heighten every moment and provide for the rapid change of scenes so essential to Elizabethan drama...
Summer competition among the intramural sporting set will heighten in intensity this afternoon at Soldiers Field when the Lowell House We-Can-Take-It If-You-Can softball outfit battles with Kirkland's famous Diamond Devils...
...eager in movie terms. Hollywood's streets, outskirts, diners and small bars, with which the picture is liberally sprinkled, give it the special vitality of actual time and place. And the film is capable of poetry as well as naturalism. (Sample: a subtle slowing of motion to heighten the sinister mood of a scene in which the neurotic writer, in order to torture his wife, tosses poisoned food to some flying gulls...
...pent-up fury on their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders would play spiritual havoc with the Allied peoples in their own long-frustrated desire to get at Hitler...
Politically, freedom-for-Mosley thus had a subtle effect. By deepening the rifts already present in the Labor Party, the release of Fascist Mosley may heighten the Tory chances in Britain's next general elections...