"effect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the limited effect of such complaints only heightens the frustration of residents like Lucinda Murphy, a registered nurse who volunteered that she and her husband, Sean, a television news producer, had often called the police about cars parked at the Leons'.
- The effect did heighten the blackness of space, but he felt better with the partial illumination.
- Her clothes are highly feminine, an effect heightened by a palette of gentle tones of mauve, pink, sky blue, moss green, salmon and beige.
- Sound effects - the ominous putter of a helicopter and gasping breaths - heighten the intensity of a song that carries the fervor of late-60's protest music way beyond didactic singsong and into a deeper realm of historical meditation.
- The absence of decor serves to underline the physicality of the confrontation, while bizarre sound effects - breaking glass, a foghorn, a car driving away and bursts of loud rock music - heighten the sense of danger.
- "Millionaire" embraces high-tech effects to heighten the drama, which the new shows have emphasized over the mere answering of questions.
- She wiggled onto the next bar stool and gazed at him with a seductive look burning in her eyes, the effect heightened by the long black hair winding around one shoulder.
- Add to that the new challenges of a film industry where special effects and 3D techniques can heighten the impact of scenes of violence and you have a testing time ahead.
- The most harmful effect of the Mayor's truculence lies in its potential to fan flames of division and heighten tensions.
- Occasionally he uses effects of light or unusual croppings to heighten the drama of the images, but for the most part he concentrates on relating events in a straightforward manner.
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