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intensify

«Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.»
«What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.»
«There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.»
«Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.»
«As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.»
«I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.»
«The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.»
«Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.»
«What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.»
«Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.»