Crossword-Solution: HEIGHTENS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Grows more intense | 2 answers |
| Intensifies | 11 answers |
| Elevates | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEIGHTENS (5)
The roads are not well kept.” “What you say, Captain, only heightens my curiosity; I am ready to follow you.” “Come then, sir, we will put on our diving-dresses.” Arrived at the robing-room, I saw that neither of my companions nor any of the ship’s crew were to follow us on this excursion.
Her mother’s tragic death has thrown a glamor of romance around the daughter’s life that heightens the witchery of her beauty.
Rather it keeps returning, ever the more rarely and strangely, and even in scenes to which you have been long accustomed suddenly awakes and gives a relish to enjoyment or heightens the sense of isolation.
Your beauty at first caught my eye; for who could see that without emotion? But every moment that I converse with you steals in some new grace, heightens the picture, and gives it stronger expression.
This not only reduces the story to tellable form, but it also leaves a suggestive interest which heightens later enjoyment of the original.
Quotes with HEIGHTENS (3)
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst? There is an invisible pattern in the design of deprivation: deprivation draws out desire. Absence heightens it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2002–2008).