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How to use tone in a sentence

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There are very few books which just transport me into the setting and tone right from the first page.
We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
It has sparked debate in the US over whether the highly patriotic tone crossed the line into jingoism.
There was an accusing tone to her voice, one that she couldn't quite conceal.
His tone was neither accusing, nor incredulous, but rather plainly curious.
A business-like reception area sets the tone for a spacious, minimalist style throughout that is soothing rather than intimidating.
Some said it was retaliation for Rick's daylong monologues, ranging in tone from hilarious to somewhat acidic.
Peter Bowles as Judith's novelist husband best catches the acidulous tone of Coward's comedy of bad manners.
The tone is unvarying and some of the songs sound too alike, musical twins holding hands.
Certainly the tone of her letters changes and the pace of the relationship becomes more settled, albeit fiery and sometimes acrimonious.
Many locals dress in period costume to set the tone for the afternoon, but the dress code is informal, so no one needs to feel pressured.
When a church leader asked him to tone down his use of racy language in his columns, his answer was swift.
A lot has been made of their euphoric, ecstatic joie de vivre, but I have to say that mainly I find the overall tone rather irritating.
But organizers of the ball say the agreement lowers the tone of the society gathering and have tried to ban the wealthy entrepreneur.
She warned us in a well rehearsed sinister tone that we should not be alarmed by the medical equipment Fay had been hooked up to.
Tyler spoke in a quiet, menacing voice, his tone threatening anyone who dared defy him.
In my dreams, his hair and skin tone are the same as mine, except he has no purple pigments embedded in his pallid white.
There is an unfailing meticulousness, consistency of approach, measured critique, and a no-nonsense tone to his prose.
His tone on the viola is satisfyingly rich and rounded, surely the envy of many a lifelong violist.
To camouflage spots, dip a clean cotton bud into a concealer that matches your skin tone and dot on the spot.
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To detoxify and tone the liver after a meat-laden diet, Janet prescribed astringent greens like dandelion.
I asked with as nonchalant a tone as I could muster, as he jumped angrily at my sudden appearance.
Wear this belt with a pair of earth tone chinos or camel pants, and a pair of beige shoes.
Students could be given the chance, for example, to regulate the tone of voice they use in the halls.
Some of the jokes fall flat, and I'm not sure how I feel about the tone of the ending.
The tone is set when the lights go up on a politician in camiknickers and fishnet stockings.
Some of the columnists' appointments seem to presage the adoption of a tone even more raspingly ideological.
Her haughty tone affected the third voice, giving him the impression that she was annoyed.
It's a neat trick to have a way to spell words containing both nasalization and crucially important tone without any accents or funny letters.
The peel will reduce fine lines and wrinkles, smooth the skin, reduce pore size, even skin tone and improve elasticity.
Arrangement and general performance will each attract 40 points, with tone and rhythm equally sharing the remainder.
The first week we filmed I had to ask the warm-up guy to tone the audience down.
Take 5-20 drops of the tincture in water or one cup of tea to relieve afterpains and tone the uterus.
Even more startling was the cynical, even hateful, tone of many of the letters.
In this form, the seven intervals are of two sizes, the whole tone and the semitone.
When they were young, they'd adopted wryness as the defining tone at home, skirting anything too intimate or windy.
There is a certain lightness of tone in this poem that alleviates the heaviness of elegy.
Radical organizations leverage the militant tone and temper set by the delegates to propagate their malevolent agitprop.
The tone is superior and self-righteous, but there is some truth to what Wills was saying.
A slide guitar is used on some of the tracks, while the songs maintain a definite tone of melancholy and sadness.
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Once you've finished this wonderful book you're haunted by the melancholy tone of this solitary, meditative figure.
In Gerome's quasi-photographic version of academic painting, tone came first.
There's a melancholy tone to the proceedings, a funeral solemnity, in what is supposed to be a summer sci-fi action blockbuster.
As she headed to Wyndemere, Nikolas' melancholy tone and his heartfelt words played inside her mind.
Lead singer, Mathew Booi's melancholy tone is appropriate here, just as it is almost too much to take everywhere else.
Neither a dialling nor an engaged tone was to be heard, only the sound of a line that had been pulled.
Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric.
The tone of his voice suggested that he was talking to a feeble-minded minion who couldn't be trusted to tie his or her own shoe laces.
He hit this tone that's engaging and funny and you just wanna watch him do this character more.
The resigned tone of much of American singer Rocky Votolanto's vocals offer an interesting foil to the often light and airy music.
Plotting the changes as the tone frequency is varied across the bandpass of the circuit produces a curve.
A connection of any sort would have tested David James, but the big Hungarian's air shot set the tone for a poor personal performance.
The concert opened with the trio performing Mozart's A Spring Rondo, which set the tone for the evening.
In other words, match the tanner shade to your skin tone rather than the colour you would like to be.
Her tone was that of a conservative reactionary bemoaning the collapse of family values.
Despite occasional bursts of humor, the prevalent tone throughout the movie is somber.
He opted for a strong theatrical style, exaggerating every tone and gesture and playing with great energy and ebullience.
It consisted of a bank of electronic tone generators and an associated array of processing devices that regulated the nature of the sounds.
The synthetic skin didn't quite match his normal skin tone but that was the only indication that it was artificial.
He was reading the newspaper and he looked up at me and said in a very serious tone of voice.
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Still, the masterful tone and astonishingly sophisticated writing in this novel redeem a lot of the awkwardness.
His hallmark full, burnished tone and his strong technique have developed into something masterly.
The same general comments apply equally well to other musical instrument capable of a sustained tone such as the woodwind and brass instruments.
The honeyed brown of the truck matched her skin tone perfectly, and it was leathery soft.
The speech pattern, which mimics the sound of his playing, has a distinctive modular tone that matches the rhythm.
My eyes looked flat, dead, though I was crying, and my tone matched my eyes.
A melody tumbles from Connors' hands with hints of processing and wah-wah to make a tone that bubbles up from some waterlogged dream.
He could have used the same tone of voice to convey his sympathies to a recently widowed aunt.
Light pink gets lost next to the yellow and dark pink is too close in tone to the red.
Elizabeth found it difficult to keep the pleading tone suppressed in her voice as she touched her friend's free hand lightly.
The First Lady's personal tone made people feel warmly toward her as well as at home in the White House.
The keynote for the tone of the series was a credible representation of the lives of its three central characters.
But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical.
The architecture demands a kind of display which is at odds with the tone both of the words and of the spirit of the institution.
Extraordinarily subtle gradations of hue and tone at the perimeters heighten the ethereal appearance of the whole.
The tone of the self-portrait with which he wound up his adolescence recalls something of Kepler's horoscope of himself.
It might have helped if the person who fielded all our claims had been slightly less triumphant in the tone of her standard rebuff.
Lack of gravitational forces leads to muscle atrophy, decreased muscle tone and strength, and neuromuscular changes.
Instead, he could answer in a funny, light-hearted way, setting an upbeat tone for the evening.
Penn keeps the tone of the film extremely light, as the action effortlessly hops between Florida and Beverly Hills.
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I'd have sworn he was still burning the way his body shone. Barr's tone is homely, gnarled, wintrily pastoral.
Alarms can be set to different stations or to a simple alarm tone and alarm volume set independently of main radio volume.
The drawing is notable for its wonderful use of soft pencil, which permits fine gradations of tone and texture.
Gregory felt a chill run up his spine at the wistful, dreamy tone of her voice.
Ideally, I try to warm-up to a tone or two above the performance's highest note.
Because in some sense, the attorney general sets the moral tone for the country.
He tried to keep his tone matter-of-fact and business-like, but he couldn't completely hide the quiver of emotion as he spoke of leaving her.
For example, a rising whole tone interval is mirrored by a falling whole tone interval.
This was a discouraging event that set the tone for the long week that lay ahead.
The material is metallic in a comfortable blue tone to give an effortless luxe look.
Healy put in a superb crunching tackle in the first few minutes that set the tone for the evening.
Nevertheless, despite the low-key tone to events 40 Christmas trees have been shipped out to lend a more festive feel to proceedings.
With full-size prototypes, mock-ups and models made with sample materials, tactility, texture, tone and technique are expressed.
The overall tone is considerably lighter than in Chaucer's poem, the play being diversified with songs and lyrical passages.
Foundations not only smooth out skin tone and boost skin's radiance, they can also help protect your face from everyday sun exposure.
The tone and tactics of globalisation critics may need some adaptation, but debating on who makes and manages global policies remains vital.
In this, Jane Austen's last completed work, satire and ridicule take a milder form, and the tone is more grave and tender.
Well, if this is the kind of tone he wants to set for his party, 2006 will be another banner year for Republicans.
The colours are deep and rich and help set an operatic mood and tone for almost every scene.
If lipstick looks too shiny on your eyelids, dust your lids with loose powder foundation to tone down the color.
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What was funny to me, however, was the barely masked anger in their tone disguised as concern or good-natured ribbing.
The general tone of the piece is cynical, morbid and unpleasantly other-worldly.
Computers crash, characters bicker, and the general tone of the series is somewhat grim, with occasional bursts of humor.
They also wanted to have the conference at a place of higher learning in order to set a tranquil and academic tone for the event.
Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes.
Freeform drumming enters to impose order upon the 7-minute walkabout as it assembles itself with subtle shadings of tone and color.
Though he makes some brief excursions into consciously literary forms, the overall tone of his writing is terse, colloquial, practical, laconic.
The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this.
Before we can slide into the booth, he is already talking with the excited, slightly conspiratorial tone of a friend with some juicy gossip.
His short and curly dark hair was tousled from a morning of sleep and his usually olive skin had the sallow tone of the hungover.
Hannah picked, noticing how the tone of her voice had taken a sort of offensive taint.
Its sharp, contemporary tone and content is designed to reflect the issues that matter to British Asians.
Junichi watched as Murasaki chided her master with a grim expression on her face and her tone was gently admonitory.
Trotter uses this music to introduce octaves, accented rhythms, a whole tone scale and a continuous cross-hand pattern.
It is then that Jacobsen's controversial account takes on the tone of a cheap airport thriller.
It covers all the basic areas of general music, including rhythm, pitch, dynamics, tempo, texture, form and tone color.
The tone here is adulatory and uncritical but the photographs alone will delight those who worship at Gandhi's shrine.
Try self-tanning creams or lotions if you want to darken your skin tone without causing the damage caused by UV light.
Although there is a reluctance to admit it, the liberal interpretation is largely confessional and pastoral in its tone and direction.
Excessively muted in tone and atmosphere, they seem remote now, as if filtered through gauze.
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His wit and poise set the tone for the afternoon event, which was seasoned with songs from Randall's performing friends.
Despite the modern setting, the films are Victorian in tone and atmosphere.
The crying woman's head jerked up, eyes flashing in momentary anger at my tone of voice.
London's tone suggests they're put out, as though we're being deliberately awkward.
Familiarity gave a personal tone to the gathering, which smoothed the transaction of ideas and discussions.
She could've kicked herself for the demanding tone in which she asked the question.
Not a word or tone could be altered without the reviser being accused of being a modern anti-revolutionist.
It nails down the wry, wisecracking tone of the business world in lively, almost reportorially vivid detail.
The show seemed oddly just a little light in tone, at least relative to the general tone of the series.
The events of this year have set the tone for a less giddy new year's celebration and perhaps one more for reflection.
Stylistically, it really set the tone for all the grainy filmed reconstructions of events we see in documentaries all the time nowadays.
Altair sensed no hostility in the man's tone of voice, and decided to give his full name, whether for better or for worse.
She is quick to defend the overt tone of praise in the glowing account of her experiences.
She was old enough to be Bahzell's mother, and her tart tone was so like his old nurse's that he grinned despite his tension.
A nice covering of skin with a good tone and pinkish cheeks can alter a person's face entirely.
They soon acquired a satirical and disrespectful tone which made the authorities uneasy.
She said it in the tone of that made me believe that she knew a lot more than she was letting on.
Her long brown hair majestically reflected the sun's glare, creating a golden tone to the aligned curls.
This claim should be contrasted with the anticlerical, even antireligious, tone of the more radical voices of the French Enlightenment.
Angel cringed at his rather sarcastic tone and the return of his more formal way of addressing her.
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I am most happy with the fact that the general tone of your newspaper is moderate and very optimistic.
It places more or less equal stress on all syllables, usually with the final syllable of a tone unit somewhat lengthened.
As Navajo is a tone language, an error in tone or vowel length can be embarrassing to the listener.
Nonetheless, I found the general tone of the film to be inspirational rather than offensive.
It is a tone that's played especially right in a film that doesn't strike a false note.
It's passages like this, where he talks about his message, that strike a false note in the tone and the language used.
Nevertheless she carefully noted his words, his expression and tone of voice, a memory image to be retrieved and considered later.
It was savagely true to the style, the approach, the tone he had long developed.
Eventually, the tone stabilizes, and, by the second half, the power of the story will envelop all but the most distracted viewers.
Death and Birth are subjects that demand serious treatment and both set the tone for the album.
Nevertheless, the authors did succeed in redrafting it in an attempt to tone down the document's content.
The lack of a clear atmosphere or tone turns what could have been passionate into just passable.
It employs a single reed and has a very pure tone with no vibrato although this can be induced by use of the bellows.
And yet there is no disputing that the event, its militant tone and its choice of target will provoke terrible memories and associations.
She'd written most of the lyrics, and it was surprising that he'd caught on about the general tone of the piece.
The general tone of this album is quite serious, heavily laden with food-for-thought political rants.
The title of this volume sets the tone by its reference to a long poem that retells a classical story.
The unit notifies the operator that it has captured and recorded the point by sounding an audible tone as well as a visual display.
I must admit to finding his tone of writing to being rather condescending, which initially put my back up.
Most of the works on show have this unified tone of transitoriness and uncertainty.
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There is a palpably macho tone to all of this, as of alpha males competing for dominance and display.
With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
The benefits As with regular stationary cycling, you'll tone your legs, glutes and abs while burning calories.
Choose a translucent powder to blend with your skin tone and apply with a puff or brush.
The choreography was all worked out and the dancers had learned their steps, but poor David has two left feet and is tone deaf.
Field's film has two spectacular performances, by Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson, though the overall tone is rather restrained and poetic.
Whatever the case, you may rest assured that his tone remains hauntingly elegiac at all times.
I make sure the volume on my beep tone is always turned up as high as it will go.
The voice is a little colourless in its lower register, compensated by a bright tone in the middle of his voice, and meticulous intonation.
As soloist, leader Alan Smale stuck the perfect sweet tone without verging on the trite.
The style of camerawork and direction is very appealing and fits the tone of the film quite expertly.
His tone was gently reproving, but I was determined not to let him talk me down.
The tone of Boyfriend! is of someone older writing for a younger audience in simple language.
To finish his works, Gianakos applies a layer of protective lacquer that makes the wrinkles and variegations in tone permanent.
The speech might have sounded rehearsed in words, but in the tone of her voice, I felt that these words came from the heart.
The real significance was the difference in tone and style between the beginning of his speech and the latter half.
There are a vast number of languages that are known as tone languages or tonal languages.
His mobile telephone rang with a tone indicating he was in Spain but was switched off without a word being said.
Occasionally, the tone can be too sentimental and some of the historic background is laid on with a trowel, but these are quibbles.
I could see some of the excitement drain out of her expression and her tone of voice changed.
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This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.
Yet Moffatt makes the point allusively, in a whisper entirely in keeping with the tone of the work.
The tambura, a pear-shaped stringed instrument, is similar to the Bulgarian gadulka, and has been compared in tone to the American banjo.
This seemed to set the tone for the Warriors as they never trailed in the game, coming out on the winning end of a 79-74 final score.
Setting the tone for the rest of the journey, the queen made public appearances and distributed alms to the poor.
Tessa's tone was cool and aloof, but Rogers could sense the apprehensive undertone.
Her tone had changed considerably which made him feel like he had been relieved of a great burden from his shoulders.
I couldn't hear the sarcastic tone in her voice and I felt jealousy rising in me.
Only Trent noticed the mocking tone in Matt's voice and he hated him for it.
Because of the confidential tone that my voice had taken, every ear in the room was cocked in our direction.
Keeping track of your tone of voice, volume and inflection is also a good idea.
For a moment during this litany, her tone of voice takes on a sharp, exasperated edge.
Now, however, he was looking straight at her, eyes direct, face serious and tone reproving.
I didn't know what that meant exactly, but her tone signaled the end of the discussion.
All we are asking is that we be treated in a respectful manner and spoken to in a respectable tone of voice.
Despite the dismissive tone of voice, a serious expression crossed her face.
His quips and jokes were still at my expense, but he did tone things down a little.
Dehring concluded that all the bid-submissions received set the tone for staging of the event.
His face had so many zits on it that it looked like his skin tone was actually pink and white.
I think you would have gotten the point if you had been more receptive to the complaint, instead of the acidic tone it was handed down in.
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Once at the door, the memories halted and the silence accosted her with a tone of accusation.
This movie is more of a festival of excesses, where tone and temperament are identified and altered to confuse and bemuse the audience.
I can normally tell, just from her tone of voice down the telephone line, how she's feeling.
The tone was jarringly dissonant from the sunny message Kerry and Edwards have emphasized on their first few days together on the campaign trail.
She effortlessly keeps a delicate, softly humorous tone throughout the film.
Both her tone and her tune epitomize soul and bring her character, a washed-up cabaret dancer, to life.
Something about Gran's tone suggested that this was only a backhanded compliment.
The mildly teasing tone in the girl's voice took most of the sting out of her last comment, yet it still rankled.
Each time the manakin produced a loud, clear tone that sounded as if it came from a violin.
Suns defender Steven May set the tone back then when he pulled off a huge shirtfront on Zorko in the first quarter.
Some reviewers of my book took exception to the approbatory tone in which I described this popular religion.
His tone made a crescendo to pleading, but Kay kept speaking rather assuredly.
The tone of the site is bang on target, from the over-excited use of exclamation marks to the mangled syntax and personal trivia.
I can see their expression and hear their tone of voice now, clear as anything.
For his first back-to-school season as Minister of National Education, Mr. Fillon chose to give a very nostalgic tone to his address.
Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
The spectacle of war became increasingly popular but its tone changed to reflect the manliness of the soldier and his deadly seriousness.
The sound of police boots grating on the stone floor adds an ominous tone to the prison scenes.
Meier provided her own tone and mannerism for each of these four characters.
There is an assuredness in his tone which suggests he won't be changing his mind on this particular subject any time soon.
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I always love the incredibly dry, spare tone of the Times when it approaches ultra-weird subjects.
But despite the pertinence and importance of Dawn's critique, her schoolmarmish, finger-wagging tone may put people off.
She is blessed with the cool, crystalline tone so characteristic of Scandinavian singers.
Sandler's a ridiculous romantic lead, but when the tone of the film matches his awkward effort with pure whimsy, it's light fun.
Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse.
The tenor in these passages is assertive, quite at odds with the almost diffident tone of the rest of the book.
His blurred tone and urbane, eloquent solos are enjoyable enough, but the star here is the tenorist.
Suddenly she spoke, and he could detect the fear, horror, and absolute abhorrence in her tone of voice.
Today, many of the jokes are dated, but the raucous satirical tone still hits a nerve and calls forth countless contemporary associations.
At first merely uninteresting, the ploy eventually descends into slapstick comedy, undermining the prevailing halcyon tone of the work.
It has terrific moments, especially early on, often anticipating Fellini in tone and setting, but it is a bit too jauntily whimsical for us now.
With his loud voice and demonstrative personality, Weis usually sets the tone on the practice field.
Summer is the time for whingeing, so at the start of a new year let's change the tone and really give NASA something to probe!
If you tone down your demonstrativeness, you will be able to receive what your quiet friend has to offer.
Try telling the football fan jabbering on at full volume to an uninterested audience in the pub to tone it down and see where it gets you.
The overall tone is a muted greenish grey, picked out by the stone statue of the Madonna and the abundant foliage.
Violinist Adela Pena played with a penetrating tone and trenchant musicality.
Selenium toner also cools the tone of the paper and makes the print more archival.
The rich tone and strong accents of Gabriel Beavers's solo bassoon were striking.
One rule of thumb is that muted pinks in the warmer tonal families will generally flatter almost any skin color or tone regardless of age.
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The tone of voice Michael made that careless statement in, however, had him second-guessing his initial thoughts.
Despite his high rhetorical tone and biblical cadences, even Jack sounded bored and out of touch.
Graffiti is a nuisance, it lowers the tone of the neighbourhood and everybody's quality of life suffers.
The colors in the exterior scenes in India are bright and deeply saturated, but once the film's tone becomes grimmer, the color palette becomes muted and desaturated.
Sandy Neilson's production, enthusiastically performed by the resident company, strikes an appropriate, rollicking tone but gradually runs out of steam.
The tone of the dance was by turns rapt, jubilant, and possessed.
It looks really untidy and lowers the tone of the whole area.
Far from a rant, her tone throughout is cool and methodical, and her critiques are couched more in sorrow than in anger.
Then with a patronizing tone they tell me that I can keep the change.
The diminutive luchador comes up through the floor of the stage and launches high into the air, setting the tone for the fast-paced action that is about to take place.
It flavored her light, airy tone as she spoke, partially to herself, and somewhat to Mira, who sat back on her heels and watched the scene unfold, nonplussed.
I squeaked, my voice a tone higher than it should have been.
This patented champ evens skin tone and brings out a natural radiance.
The atmosphere and the tone you set was so friendly and welcoming.
The tone of the original series is vastly different, with few points of commonality save for the talking dog.
The tone of the report is tough-minded and the approach managerialist.
Visually, the show is a treat, and the tone is mostly benign and gentle.
His tone was so authoritative that, after a moment's thought, I obeyed.
This sequence will have a real bearing on the tone of the rest of the season, and the importance of translating excuses into results cannot be overestimated.
His remarks were ambiguous, and it will be the tone that matters.
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He was forced to strategically excise parts in the opening shower sequence, replace some lascivious dialogue, and tone down some of the overt gore.
With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so.
The king enters the scene majestically, changing the tone of the play.
On Monday, Wall Street reopened for business in defiant tone but more prosaic realities quickly took over, dragging the Dow to its largest ever one-day points fall.
If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella.
The best exercise to help tone the love handles are side bends.
I just found it depressingly tone deaf for a show that typically handles these sensitive issues so delicately.
And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up.
Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
His tone was mingled with a tone of slight regret and sadness.
And she laughed, laughed at how happy, gay, and carefree her tone sounded.
The unfortunate lighting and makeup combined to give him the skin tone of soggy cardboard.
I decided it was farce and not consistent with the satiric tone of the rest of the film.
I once asked if I could lower the tone and be allowed to read a short story.
The reader isn't expected to take anything on faith or invest belief in any seemingly mad ideas, which is probably just the right tone for this sort of introductory book.
It sets the tone for the rest of the pilot episode, a schlocky collection of tired tropes and telegraphed setups.
There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
This installation, by French designer Andrea Crews, sets the tone for the eccentricities of the Monstres de la Mode exhibition.
The Guardian newspaper, in particular, appears to be egging him on in the tone and extent of its coverage.
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While that is not likely to happen, her record label and tour staff have been discussing ways to tone the show down.
There was a new tone not previously heard in his voice, a resigned one.
He walked with the air of a cardinal, emitting words with a nasal tone and melancholy gestures.
The deep tone of the bell rang out resoundingly, heralding its arrival.
In its playfulness, this trial run for revolution set the tone for what was to follow.
The study showed that the soundscape you listen to has an influence on the emotional tone of your dream.
He might need to be concerned, as the reasonably calm and lucid tone of his email is in direct contrast to his normal abusive scattergun approach.
Third parties may not always directly influence an election, but they do set the tone for what is discussed and start the next mandate off on a particular foot.
He switches styles, tone and temporalities with goofy abandon.
The triangle for once doesn't play as if afraid it will never be heard from again, while the piccolo stands out for its cleanliness of tone and brilliance.
The tone veered wildly between camp, melodrama, realism, and messy amalgamations of the three.
With their use of tone rows and dense counterpoint these pieces should dispel any ideas that Ives's music is just about jaunty marches and musical borrowings.
Now speaking of tone languages and just absolute pitch, it involves relative pitch and noticing intonation contours and all sorts of other complicated things too.
To ensure noise measurements on digital carriers are valid, a holding tone must be transmitted to operate the compander and quantizing circuitry in its normal operating range.
The running narrative tone has a majestic, almost biblical cadence to it.
He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth.
The seating was bipartisan, the tone was collegial, the president struck some centrist, even conservative notes.
The job of Speaker has to include setting a competent, moral tone for the Congress in particular, and the government in general.
Pope Francis is certainly a breath of fresh air, and I, for one, rejoice in his style, tone and early pronouncements.
He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.

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