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A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.
How goodness heightens beauty!
Being unprepared heightens nerves.
On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.