Meanings of heighten the effect in English

The child had been made wonderfully pretty to heighten the effect.

Every effort is made by the Mediums to heighten the effect.

That is precisely what will heighten the effect of his action.

In what other instances is nature used to heighten the effect?

Maturin chooses his similes with discrimination, to heighten the effect he aims at producing:

To heighten the effect, icy gales blew continually, accompanied by heavy mists and chilling fogs.

To heighten the effect of his scoundrel, Smollett develops parallel with him the virtuous Count de Melvil.

Some herbs can heighten the effect.

That would only heighten the effect.

She left nothing undone to heighten the effect she and the Prince, or the Prince and she, were creating.

The youthful pair start beneath the smile of a blue sky, flecked with milk-while clouds merely to heighten the effect.

Austin was harsh and repellent when the least bit self-conscious, and now he was striving deliberately to heighten the effect.

And this pure white on one side and pale gray on the other did but heighten the effect of Claudia's magnificent costume.

His counsel, as if anxious to take advantage of this very expectation to heighten the effect of what followed, proceeded immediately to inquire:

They will think so many devils have got among them, and we will heighten the effect by discharging every piece that we can among them.

To heighten the effect, our artist has, however, introduced light sketchy outlines of the campanile towers of St. Paul's, the city, and the distant country.