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Amid concerns over police brutality and pandemic-heightened economic anxiety, cities have seen scattered outbreaks of violence and looting in recent months.

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

She stands, dressed in a tutu, on one pointed foot in a heightened fifth position.

It is an extreme, heightened set-up, I say: the whole hostage-taking, life-imperiled prolog.

The Mossad high command must surely be convening emergency meetings in an atmosphere of tension and heightened alertness.

The memo, citing a heightened security threat, said that the attacks were scheduled for July 25, 2014.

The change was visible in his heightened colour, in his flashing eyes, and in his twitching mustachios.

As I turn to her, I am struck by the peculiar gleam in her eyes and the heightened color.

“I shall like it of all things,” he cried, with sparkling eyes and heightened colour.

Facing Mildred, whose color was heightened by the intensity  of her emotion, he began softly to play.

But the airs which he gave himself only heightened the respect and admiration which he inspired.