Word: heightening
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...paintings, however, as much as their great antiquity, that makes them so surprising. The artwork in the Cosquer cave is nothing more than the crude outline of a human hand. The Chauvet cave drawings, made 30 centuries earlier, are exquisitely rendered likenesses that use the caverns' natural contours to heighten a sense of perspective. The contrast suggests that the art of early man did not mature steadily in any simple linear fashion. Says Patrice Baghain, a regional director of the French Culture Ministry: "It throws the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question...
...heighten conflict at the school, liberal students protesting discriminatory hiring practices were disciplined, sending waves of animosity through the community once more. Now the administration seemed guilty of double standards, although close examination proved the two situations sufficiently different to merit a discrepancy in administrative reaction. Still, many believed the discrepancy was a convenient manipulation of school rules in keeping with a politically partisan line...
While public figures are certainly not obliged to share the details of their various afflictions, such candor can do much to heighten awareness of preventive measures...
...they also said they would have liked him to hire more minorities, fill vacant city positions and heighten the pace of community development...
...Secondly, we hope to bring more speakers to Harvard who are interested in Latin America to heighten awareness of Latin American issues here," she said. "Latin America is sometimesignored. There is not as much interest in it as inoften areas...