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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.

Mizzi retired with a heightened color, and he sat down with satisfaction to the cricket reports and deviled kidneys.

Regrettable as it may seem, it is with heightened spirits that he continues his stroll.

The unpopularity of the administration was heightened by its finance.

"The orders of Professor Elizabeth Challis," she said, with heightened colour.

In this he was unrivalled, and it was heightened by the adjuncts of a voice, face, and manner irresistibly comical.