Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Joan has been put in an American context to heighten her joyful spirit, so the other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American...
Compositionally, the Disasters concentrate on action to the extent of losing visual balance. Goya exaggerates gesture to heighten emotion or point a message. In "No se Puede Mirar" for example, Goya shows who the ends of rifles can outbalance human beings...
Miller explained some of the details that makes the second of these plays different from his earlier works as well as from contemporary realism. He used the technique of the Greek Drama, in this case substituting a narrator for the chorus, to heighten the dramatic effect. While the play is going on, Miller said, the audience is directed to the important conflicts and made to realize that they are not looking in on real life, as in Death of a Salesman, but are watching a frankly convention-bound art form. This signifies an attempt on his part to strike...
Capehart stiffed open discussion by identifying non-confirming opinion with sympathy for Communism, according to Galbraith. The Senator "injudiciously lifted two paragraphs from context from the pamphlet, edited them to heighten the effect, and cited them as evidence that I am sympathetic to Communism," Galbraith added...
Such peaceful, secluded living has served to heighten the chief quality of Gerassi's paintings: a warm and sunny kind of innocence. But the simplicity actually springs from an arduous process of trial and error-from "failures," as he says...