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  • We won't change your image, we'll just enhance it.†   (source)
  • Rob is a white native Mississippian whose Southern charm and manner enhanced his outstanding litigation skills in Alabama courts.†   (source)
  • Dolores Umbridge was standing in the doorway wrapped in a green tweed cloak that greatly enhanced her resemblance to a giant toad, and was smiling in the horrible, sickly, ominous way that Harry had come to associate with imminent misery.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I had seen him for almost a week due to his enhanced training schedule, but having spent forty minutes in the bath with half a pack of bath salts, he was so exhausted he could barely talk to me.†   (source)
  • That opening is scientifically and mathematically positioned by a factory-trained technician to enhance the TT AB-700's true high-fidelity sound!"†   (source)
  • During each visit, Grandfather always gave us a special medicine that was supposed to enhance the brain's capacity to absorb and retain knowledge.†   (source)
  • Therefore, we walked soberly around Harvard Square—a part of Cambridge that is not necessarily enhanced by sobriety.†   (source)
  • He had attended at the invitation of Rebecca Strauss-one-time fashion model now art critic from the Times, a whirlwind of black velvet, cigarettes, and not-so-subtly enhanced breasts.†   (source)
  • THE ISLAND temple, built in the style of Nicholas Revett in the late 1780s, was intended as a point of interest, an eye-catching feature to enhance the pastoral ideal, and had of course no religious purpose at all.†   (source)
  • An artificial race with enhanced sight, strength, and speed, Glass Eyes were built for hand-to-hand combat, and they patrolled the Crystal Continuum with orders to annihilate anyone suspected of being an Alyssian.†   (source)
  • Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery.†   (source)
  • Although Emily was pretty certain that being forced to hide her IRISH GIRLS DO IT BEI PER baby tee at the back of her underwear drawer wasn't exactly character enhancing.†   (source)
  • It was as if just being here had some kind of narcotic effect on me; like the loop itself was a drug—a mood enhancer and a sedative combined—and if I stayed too long, I'd never want to leave.†   (source)
  • Leaders may enhance their informal status by renouncing formal symbols.†   (source)
  • The jabberjays were muttations, genetically enhanced male birds created by the Capitol as weapons to spy on rebels in the districts.†   (source)
  • "Nnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyuuuuuuurrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!" cried Ford Prefect and threw one final spasm as the electronic enhancement of the last line caught him full blast across the temples.†   (source)
  • To enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty.†   (source)
  • It could not land directly because Eros had enhanced gravity, and the tug, designed for towing cargos, could never escape the gravity well.†   (source)
  • Can you enhance it?†   (source)
  • He probably thinks his chances of getting into Harvard or whatever are way enhanced by the fact that he's the princess of Genovia's boyfriend.†   (source)
  • Dex knew that EF-5 tornadoes are the strongest tornadoes, according to a system called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which scientists use to rate the strength of tornadoes.†   (source)
  • Remember, when creatures of magic actually use magic, they can accomplish things that could kill a human, because of their enhanced abilities.†   (source)
  • His great achievements, spoken of in his absence because he came home only for holidays, were glowingly recounted, dissected, rumored, enhanced, extolled.†   (source)
  • Then it came to him: besides the thickness of the light and his enhanced perception of energy fields, nothing was moving.†   (source)
  • Color enhances.†   (source)
  • Is my reading greatly enhanced by this knowledge?†   (source)
  • The quality of the raw video was such that viewers could zoom, pan, freeze and enhance.†   (source)
  • Dark, velvety, its beauty was enhanced by his strong clean-shaven chin.†   (source)
  • Da5id has even enhanced the physics of The Black Sun to make it a little cartoonish, so that particularly obnoxious people can be hit over the head with giant mallets or crushed under plummeting safes before they are ejected.†   (source)
  • The link with the Walt Disney Company was considered by far the most important, designed to "enhance perceptions of Brand McDonald's."†   (source)
  • The chocolate-chip pancakes dowsed in syrup have clearly only enhanced his hyper excitement.†   (source)
  • Just a bit of fluff your father's going to use to marry off, to enhance his business.†   (source)
  • Are there life-enhancing numbers, other numbers charged with menace?†   (source)
  • And that was what Baby Kochamma in Inspector Thomas Mathew's office, enhanced and embroidered into threats of murder and abduction.†   (source)
  • Only her hearing remained, but it was enhanced and supersensitive.†   (source)
  • The grime and sweat of the day had done nothing but strangely enhance her innocence and beauty.†   (source)
  • "The first law I mentioned, 'Similarity enhances sympathy,' simply means that the more things resemble each other, the stronger the sympathetic link between them will be."†   (source)
  • In order to enhance the silence, the tiles had been covered with the Turkish rugs purchased at the World's Fair in Paris; a recent model of a victrola stood next to a stand that held records arranged with care, and in a corner, draped with a Manila shawl, was the piano that Dr. Urbino had not played for many years.†   (source)
  • TAU, THE: in Fremen terminology, that oneness of a sietch community enhanced by spice diet and especially the tau orgy of oneness elicited by drinking the Water of Life.†   (source)
  • What he wanted was to offer people the possibility of having children with enhanced characteristics.†   (source)
  • My gold-draped protagonist was an indigenous suburban princess who drove a pink BMW, her rock-hard, surgically enhanced breasts jutting into the steering wheel, allowing her to drive hands-free, talking on her cell phone and teasing her frosted hair in the rearview mirror as she raced to the tanning salon.†   (source)
  • In a few months this ponytailed man would be beheaded, nape-first with a serrated knife to enhance discomfort, his headless body strung up by one ankle from an electricity pylon where it swayed legs akimbo until the shoelace his executioner used instead of rope rotted and gave way, no one daring to cut him down before that.†   (source)
  • If anything, their disgustingness is magically enhanced.†   (source)
  • Most of them were entries about how to enhance a certain graphic or reviews of other games that had been posted on the site.†   (source)
  • Now, if Moody went to work, it would surely enhance my mobility.†   (source)
  • This summer she went to the mall, bought new clothes so she could expand her wardrobe, and spent her daddy's money on plastic surgery to enhance her, ahem, assets.†   (source)
  • By representing myself I would enhance the symbolism of my role.†   (source)
  • I mean, I never Crank-enhanced goosebumps lifted as he moved his hands gently across my skin.†   (source)
  • And if everything was supposed to be so great, why did everyone drink or do drugs in the hope of enhancing their experience?†   (source)
  • The third pair was digitally enhanced for color resolution, and the fourth was digitally enhanced for line resolution.†   (source)
  • "Would that be enhanced interrogation techniques, ma'am?"†   (source)
  • They'd said promotions would follow but that he'd have to stay longer than the four years before he would be considered for such enhanced privileges.†   (source)
  • Turning this over as the guards enjoyed their chemically enhanced sleep, he thought it might be likely.†   (source)
  • Understanding society and how we relate to each other fosters the attitudes essential for success in college, work and communities; it enhances student learning in other subjects.†   (source)
  • His bodily systems had been augmented, but an enhanced body could reach a tipping point from which there was no return.†   (source)
  • Now, in 2006, the immortal image's continuing power moves Bantam Books and Clint Eastwood to enhance and retell the saga.†   (source)
  • Who wanted to enhance a mood?†   (source)
  • She said it was to keep standards up, and to enhance the image of the school in the community.†   (source)
  • At this time when the Parliament of Canada will be considering legislation designed to enhance the value and dignity of Canadian citizenship, these Orders will have precisely the opposite effect.†   (source)
  • A member of the museum tech staff replied, "Might be able to get it technologically enhanced.†   (source)
  • The only one whose appearance was enhanced by mourning was the church's patron saint, Sebastian, for during Holy Week the faithful were spared the sight of that body twisted in the most indecent posture, pierced by arrows, and dripping with blood and tears like a suffering homosexual, whose wounds, kept miraculously fresh by Father Restrepo's brush, made Clara tremble with disgust.†   (source)
  • He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote 'enhanced' when he meant 'increased'.†   (source)
  • After this loss, I recommended she go to the local herbalist to procure herbs to help her conceive a son and enhance her husband's strength and frequency in his below-the-belt region.†   (source)
  • The lingerie enhanced the charm of her femininity, while the hard masculine hat denied it, violated and ridiculed it.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what I'll give to who—but the point is, these are all timeless and unique items that would enhance any home.†   (source)
  • The only reference to this in her textbook was a statement so cryptic, more so after she memorized it, that she'd begun to think it was put there to antagonize her: Sound Nursing Sense is more important than knowledge, though knowledge only enhances it.†   (source)
  • He realized that this was a vain concern, as if any man's oration could enhance or diminish that which was divine.†   (source)
  • Merrick was a rebellious, unorthodox scientist whose reputation for clear thinking was not enhanced by his recent divorce or the presence of the handsome blond secretary he had brought with him to the symposium.†   (source)
  • You, Captain, will of course receive enhanced payments as befits your rank and, since we understand your plan is to retire shortly, the Crown will certainly wish to show its gratitude in the traditional way.†   (source)
  • For twenty credits she could have hooked on mood enhancer goggles, treated herself to lights and shapes that fit the music.†   (source)
  • Before Bernardine could object further, Medusa's Delta crawled out into the dark boulevard, dark but for the harsh stationary beams of the searchlights, which were now angled on the flanks, thus actually enhancing Bourne's concealment.†   (source)
  • Even though the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen are said to have agreed that this operation would enhance the ability to use weapons, it is doubtful whether such operations were actually performed.†   (source)
  • The title did not make the man, of course, but it enhanced the standing of the man in the eyes of others.†   (source)
  • All he grasped was that a connection with her enhanced his own standing, and to him that was all that mattered.†   (source)
  • She might be a doctor of medicine or of literature, biologist or sociologist, musicologist or dentist, but in Joe's eyes, her credibility was enhanced by the mere fact that she had earned the honorific.†   (source)
  • Some of the openings were huge, others barely large enough for a man to fit through stooped over; some were natural crevices, others were, if not man-made, at least enhanced by someone's hands.†   (source)
  • Most of the windows were boarded up, but even in the dim light Mafia's enhanced sight could pick out details—the sifted dusting of plaster along the bare hallway floors, the marks where construction lights had been put in, bits of wiring glued to the walls by clumps of paint, mice scrabbling in the darkened corners.†   (source)
  • Everything with us always had to be a race or a competition; Mom knew that and used it to enhance our learning process.†   (source)
  • The fact that mass slaughters hadn't been prevented in places all over the world -- and weren't being prevented now -- didn't argue against these attempts to preserve the memories of former massacres and the hope they represented, that someday "Never Again" might seem like more than a pious, self-enhancing platitude.†   (source)
  • And/or he couldn't/wouldn't talk about it to me, assuming he wanted to, assuming the entire drama wasn't a product of my estrogen poisoning or a symptom of a brain tumor caused by eating so many gallons of artificially colored, high-fructose corn syrup–enhanced plastic food products when I was younger.†   (source)
  • Jackie is assembling a team of top collectors to enhance the decor of the White House in every possible way.†   (source)
  • They enhance this impression with every confident motion, every commanding sentence, every inch of space they take.†   (source)
  • In fact, it will enhance your reputation.†   (source)
  • They were a color and texture unique to themselves, enhanced by the snatches of green from rough, hardy trees and shrubs that seemed to grow out of the rock.†   (source)
  • This ability to survive within an all-Spanish community has been enhanced by the growth of Spanish-language media.†   (source)
  • To send messages, acquire information, or bind it within an item to enhance its properties.†   (source)
  • Yet now, if the Rohirrim are grown in some ways more like to us, enhanced in arts and gentleness, we too have become more like to them, and can scarce claim any longer the title High.†   (source)
  • It is the tyrant's most valuable and life-enhancing gift.†   (source)
  • Ann bites her lip, and it only enhances her loveliness.†   (source)
  • I believe that life, just for this reason, is exceedingly enhanced in value, in charm.†   (source)
  • A meteor shower shot through the clear, like tracer bullets, and enhanced the depth of the sky by shining so close to earth.†   (source)
  • I looked up a book on the history of sailing, trying to figure out what I could do to enhance the sailing characteristics of a Viking longboat.†   (source)
  • A military alliance would only enhance your stature and influence.†   (source)
  • You needed some sort of distinction in the Twins, else they were liable to forget you were alive, but a reputation as the biggest drinker in the castle had done little to enhance his prospects, he'd found.†   (source)
  • Judy did most of her work inside, and the cooking experience she gained would be enhanced later with dishes such as jambalaya and white beans that she learned how to cook while living in south Louisiana.†   (source)
  • Assuming a free market throughout the sequence his profit enhancement will be of the close order of sixfold.†   (source)
  • Sprightly, trivial, and harmless items she passed on to friends, thus enhancing her status and relieving the tedium of spinsterhood.†   (source)
  • This enhanced my sense of dwelling in a dream.†   (source)
  • And if this is so, why are there no condiments save ketchup and mustard to enhance their foods?†   (source)
  • It will enhance our own perception of ourselves and our pride in being an American.†   (source)
  • We cannot yet prove that Mundt's success in liquidating minor Western intelligence agents was the work of his imperialist masters betraying their own collaborators—those who were expendable—in order that Mundt's prestige should be enhanced.†   (source)
  • Capturing for his party control of both Houses of Congress would enhance Bob Taft's prestige, reinforce his right to the Republican Presidential nomination and pave the way for his triumphant return to the White House from which his father had been somewhat ingloriously ousted in 1912.†   (source)
  • Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations.†   (source)
  • My reputation in town naturally enhanced my reputation at work and my working day became one long series of acrobatics designed to keep me out of trouble.†   (source)
  • And his feeling for her was not one to be enhanced by this kind of foolishness, which a younger man, physically in love with her, might have found charming.†   (source)
  • We use art appreciation to enhance human development and cultural enrichment.
    enhance = increase
  • Ravenclaw's was sup-posed to have magical properties, enhance the wisdom of the wearer.†   (source)
  • He'd put that on a giveaway calendar once, some fraudulent sex-enhancement product for women.†   (source)
  • Upon inspection, they appear to be harmless, if genetically enhanced, flowers.†   (source)
  • The NSA enhanced the image with the best software they have.†   (source)
  • "First is the Doctrine of Correspondence, which says, 'similarity enhances sympathy.'†   (source)
  • I'm trying to enhance with filters, but the resolution on the X-ray is not great."†   (source)
  • Brom had once taught him some words that would enhance his hearing.†   (source)
  • Burrs and grass flowers enhanced their dull socks.†   (source)
  • I slurp my coffee as we travel, finding that the cream and sugar greatly enhance its flavor.†   (source)
  • We learned gravity manipulation because they enhanced the gravity here.†   (source)
  • "Your previous employer says you are a 'warm, chatty, and life-enhancing presence.'†   (source)
  • Enhance Your Memories, said the hand-lettered sign he'd placed beside them.†   (source)
  • It will actually enhance their sense of duty.†   (source)
  • Wax the body hair and erase the dark circles, but don't make any noticeable enhancements.†   (source)
  • It enhances the pleasure she feels with him; also the sense that she's getting away with it.†   (source)
  • He grinned at me, a big platinum orthodontically enhanced grin.†   (source)
  • When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision.†   (source)
  • I'm certain these 'enhanced' hollows were an integral part of the assault on our loops."†   (source)
  • It enhances the sense of family, she'd said to me.†   (source)
  • Even magically enhanced ugliness was no match for a dwarven degree in fashion design.†   (source)
  • The pavilion shook as Saphira snarled, nearly deafening Eragon, with his enhanced hearing.†   (source)
  • I was halfway through my plate of guacamole-enhanced tastiness when Junior showed up.†   (source)
  • Luke demanded; vampire vision was more powerful even than a werewolf's enhanced sight.†   (source)
  • I don't know how the enhancement opens an empathetic pathway into another human being.†   (source)
  • Keeping you temporarily in the dark greatly enhanced our chances; you can check this with Adam.†   (source)
  • But certain details were enhanced beyond what his naked eye could ever pick up.†   (source)
  • They looked at enlargements and enhancements.†   (source)
  • Then the recording would be electronically enhanced to whatever extent possible.†   (source)
  • Some were "enhanced" but not combined with another species.†   (source)
  • I promise you this: We will not strip your son of his individuality; we will enhance it.†   (source)
  • Christ, there's a fortune in cosmetic enhancements.†   (source)
  • If anything, I just used the spotlight to enhance the show I put on for everyone else.†   (source)
  • Enhance sector twenty-three through thirty, full screen.†   (source)
  • In an age of computer-enhanced imagery it struck Ryan as charmingly anachronistic.†   (source)
  • That feeling would have done nothing to enhance your case.†   (source)
  • Wound up on Claritin enhanced crank, it wasn't so bad.†   (source)
  • Murtagh shouted with a magically enhanced voice from within the ever-shifting cocoon of fire.†   (source)
  • I knew for certain that my Valhalla-enhanced strength was the only thing keeping me alive.†   (source)
  • Enhanced sexual drive, which is not a bad thing, but that's followed by violent mood swings.†   (source)
  • Even enhanced, my eyes can't follow his fists.†   (source)
  • She was also expected to forget what she had heard on the enhanced version of that tape.†   (source)
  • But I haven't been able to enhance anything.†   (source)
  • He even uses an audio enhance, so he can whisper on calls and nobody can hear.†   (source)
  • The total effect would be an enhanced standard of living for all on the close order of twofold.†   (source)
  • "They want a peek at Barry Somers' new enhancement gadgets.†   (source)
  • "I don't have a hairdresser, or time for enhancements."†   (source)
  • You add all this stuff up, she's got ten, maybe fifteen thousand worth of enhancements.†   (source)
  • So, how do you know he uses audio enhance?†   (source)
  • Why engineer-enhanced, delusional puppets like Evan Walker?†   (source)
  • His flappy lips pouted as he turned back and brought the enhanced view of the hair on screen.†   (source)
  • It's dark, but my eyes have been enhanced: I can see her clearly in the bed, fast asleep.†   (source)
  • "I want to enhance that, freeze on Dallas," she ordered the tech.†   (source)
  • He had a hangdog face, one he had never bothered to have enhanced.†   (source)
  • Enhanced like me, but human …. human like me.†   (source)
  • No amount of alien enhancement will protect me.†   (source)
  • I've been enhanced, but I can't outrun a bullet.†   (source)
  • Very quietly now, so quietly I wouldn't hear him without the enhancement array: "Shut up."†   (source)
  • She underlines the Slytherin connection, which enhances Lord Voldemorts mys-tique; I think he is perhaps as fond of her as he can be of anything; he certainly likes to keep her close, and he seems to have an un-usual amount of control over her, even for a Parselmouth.†   (source)
  • The X-ray of the capstone's inscription was too faint to read, and the image-enhancing filters had not helped.†   (source)
  • Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers.†   (source)
  • All threeof these mythologies work as sources of material, of correspondences, of depth for the modern writer (and every writer is modern—even John Dryden was not archaic when he was writing), and provided they're recognizable to the reader, they enrich and enhance the reading experience.†   (source)
  • …to his interview with the History Department members, and with the headmaster, Dan Needham was saying, he had requested some time to address those students interested in theater—and any faculty members who were interested, too—and in this session he had attempted to demonstrate how the development of certain techniques of the theatrical arts, how certain dramatic skills, can enhance our understanding of not only the characters on a stage but of a specific time and place as well.†   (source)
  • However, if you put them in emotionally charged situations-like physical trauma, extreme joy or fear, deep meditation-all of a sudden their neurons start firing like crazy, resulting in massively enhanced mental clarity.†   (source)
  • There's a rose in President Snow's lapel, which at least suggests a source of the flower perfume, but it must be genetically enhanced, because no real rose reeks like that.†   (source)
  • The prosecutor, on the other hand, relied on wide, bright ties and broadshouldered suit jackets to enhance his status.†   (source)
  • "I won't say a word, sir," said Riddle, and he left, but not before Harry had glimpsed his face, which was full of that same wild hap-piness it had worn when he had first found out that he was a wiz-ard, the sort of happiness that did not enhance his handsome features, but made them, somehow, less human…… "Thank you, Harry," said Dumbledore quietly.†   (source)
  • Finally," he pointed to the orange radish, "the dirigible Plum, so as to enhance the ability to accept the extraordinary."†   (source)
  • Overcasts enhance the mood.†   (source)
  • Then he switches his system into full gargoyle mode: enhanced visible light with false-color infrared, plus millimeter-wave radar.†   (source)
  • He wanted even the merest glimpse that the audience might get of him to be properly ghostly; that his cold was worsening enhanced the pallor he desired.†   (source)
  • How glorious it must have been when all ten of the videocam screens were on and you could get the full panoramic view, turn up the colour brightness, enhance the red tones.†   (source)
  • Sato knew of several classified operations in which sensory-deprivation tanks like these had been used to enhance that illusion to terrifying new levels.†   (source)
  • She's an extreme example of surgical enhancement gone wrong, for surely not even in the Capitol could they find this face attractive.†   (source)
  • Harold Crosby, who had not yet attempted a first flight in the apparatus that enhanced his credibility as an angel, wanted to know where "Ory and R" were.†   (source)
  • They'd microwave popcorn, smoke some of the enhanced weed the Botanical Transgenic students were raising in one of the greenhouses; then Jimmy could pass out on the couch.†   (source)
  • He also wanted to spread the biological virus as a promoter or enhancer of the cult, but he couldn't really get away with doing that through the use of cult prostitution because it is flagrantly anti-Christian.†   (source)
  • Her all-white ensemble, enhanced by fox furs from Canada's Arctic, was set off by a splash of turquoise in her hat.†   (source)
  • Thermal imaging had been around for years, but recent advances in miniaturization, differential sensitivity, and dual-source integration had facilitated a new generation of vision enhancing equipment that gave field agents eyesight that bordered on superhuman.†   (source)
  • The pale, whitewashed arms were too long for the smaller proportions of my mother's figure; but I suppose that these overreaching arms had only enhanced Owen's memory of the affection my mother had felt for him.†   (source)
  • This would reduce the chances of infection in case any of the staff got sick; the Paradice models had enhanced immune-system functions, so the probability of contagious diseases spreading among them was low.†   (source)
  • …through an awkward excuse about why this really, really special and important date had somehow just slid out of his head, and ask Jimmy if everything was okay, and send him an e-birthday card — the OrganInc standard design with five winged pigoons doing a conga line and Happy Birthday, Jimmy, May All Your Dreams Come True and come up with a gift for him the day after, a gift that would not be a gift but some tool or intelligence-enhancing game or other hidden demand that he measure up.†   (source)
  • The effect of the blinking yellow light at the corner of Tan Lane and Front Street was also enhancing; and even the headlights of an occasional passing car were far enough, away to contribute to the uncertainty of the figure in the bed of portulaca.†   (source)
  • And her fabled voluptuousness, which I would later possess as firm a memory of as any Gravesend boy, was quite concealed by the great, loose blouses she wore—for such clothes, no doubt, enhanced the speed with which she could snap open her nursing bra.†   (source)
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