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These shells in which we have encased ourselves, they have such heightened senses.
The tragedy has been heightened by the loss of 12,000 contestants in the cross-country marathon, which started an hour before the splinter hit.
And these powers have been heightened by the concern, the love that you feel.
Now, what she does, in fact, possess is a heightened sexual drive and a working knowledge of technique, anatomy and touch that few men have ever had the pleasure of experiencing or the skill to match.
Because George has heightened extrasensory perception.
Heightened strength, heightened intelligence.
Heightened psychosis.
It was very heightened by the sense, of course, that the Germans were probably a more professional and better-trained army than we were.
You've also got heightened electrophoretic activity.
As a result, their instincts included a heightened sense of awareness.
The insecticide heightened their phobia to an unbearable level.
You have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress.
It's like, all of a sudden I'm blind but all my other senses are heightened.
Changes which manifest themselves in the blood pressure in the ratio of the blood corpuscles in the heightened activity of the nerves and the glands.
I lost myself completely in the play of shadow and light, sinking into a lethargy heightened by the water.
Heightened intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance.
He's in a state of heightened spirituality. - I'll heighten your spirituality. - This is police business.
Heightened strength,...heightened intelligence.
The insecticide heightened their already existent phobia to an unbearable level.
You'd have to expect some heightened level of emotional distress.
It's like, all of a sudden, I'm blind but all my other senses are heightened.
Do people have to kill each other to give them a heightened sense of life?
Awareness is heightened by this, but something else is lost.
He recommends we go on a heightened state of alert and pull back from Earth space.
Nonetheless, this incident has heightened concerns about planetary security.
And the creep factor is also heightened.
My best guess is that the residual neuropeptides heightened his telepathic receptivity.
An angry feminist has a heightened acuity.
They programmed us with heightened sensory subroutines.
The only super power you have is the slightly heightened sense of smell.
News and current affairs
When credit expansion is rapid, it may be appropriate to increase banks' capital requirements as a hedge against the heightened risk of a subsequent contraction.
The US, too, would finally have to accept China's heightened global role.
The current stalemate is all the more troubling in view of recent momentum on other disarmament tracks, including last year's successful NPT Review Conference and heightened attention to nuclear security.
Indeed, the combination of banking uncertainties, slower growth, and the heightened risk of underemployment and casual labor creates the political weakness now visible in the UK, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere.
It has also heightened Russia's desire to construct a special, bilateral Russo-German relationship heedless of the context of the EU.
But changes in society and the economy may have heightened the problems, at the same time that advances in economics and statistical techniques may have provided opportunities to improve our metrics.
The signing of a new unity deal between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah party earlier this month has heightened an unprecedented struggle within Hamas over its future course as an Islamist movement.
Third, heightened emotions may play a role in producing voices.
Indeed, heightened emotionality prompts the brain to produce information consonant with that emotional state.
No more secure guarantee for the protection of human rights exists than a heightened, collective moral awareness within society to defend every person's dignity.
Anti-Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia.
It is fairly safe to predict that learning in a knowledge-intensive society will continue at a heightened pace, both at the workplace and outside of it.
It is time for heightened global attention to inequality to translate into concerted action.
Americanization, indeed, is carried by the promise of heightened imaginary self-realization for individuals who are freed from the bonds of social norms and cultural traditions.
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
Not only has this untested policy experiment failed to deliver an acceptable economic recovery; it has also heightened the risk of another crisis.
Our blinkered focus on it - to the detriment of other planetary challenges - will only be heightened by the attention generated by Gore's Nobel Peace Prize.
This has led to heightened volatility in equity, money, and debt markets.
Any country that enters a period of heightened risk aversion with a large debt overhang faces only bad choices.
But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.
Continued softness in recent data - from purchasing managers' sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports - has heightened the anxiety.
Recent restrictions on microbloggers - especially denial of access to those who use untraceable aliases - have heightened concerns over Chinese Internet freedom.
A new vision of health care, which has grown out of the US managed-care movement, has recently heightened the relevance of embracing a comprehensive approach to treating these conditions.
If, on the other hand, the public is basically right about heightened disaster risks, the policy issues become much more complex.
But the response to Rosen's remark underscored the relative absence of the usual heightened scrutiny of the political wife's hair and clothes, profession and cookie recipe.
Social inequalities heightened, and last year Brazil suffered blackouts and electricity rationing.
Curiously, heightened risk and fears of further disruptions - not just another financial crisis, but also geopolitical instability and pandemics - do not seem to carry much weight in current policy discussions, though the idea has been around.