Sentences with phrase «up dramatic stakes»

Tonal shifts cause a few sequences to wobble; using the possibility of rape to up dramatic stakes during the home invasion scene is misguided and disgusting.

«If I Stay» ups the dramatic stakes.

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The 40 - year - old, who left Bellamy's in January, made a dramatic re-entry into the corporate world this week when she was announced managing director of an ASX minnow whose only asset is a 48 per cent stake in the gourmet food business, Maggie Beer Products, the business built up by celebrity cook Maggie Beer.

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)