Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mediocre class. Augmenting the lens work are a half dozen or more non-essential but suspense building scenes, some of them cinematic gems in themselves. A Chinese wedding an airplane ride, and a chance meeting at Logan International Airport all bring welcome relief from the somber tone of the film...
...Sharp Major and the Ballade in G Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
Readers heard a new tone in the voice of London's Socialist Tribune. In its "declaration of war" which charted its course for the new year there was a more rhetorical and more commanding note. Tribune promised to devote the year to "lambasting the Tories, exposing humbug, discrediting frauds. . . . We do not propose to be hustled into a new authoritarianism by the shrieks of the Communists...
...been established, knows what Dudley is, although he finds the concept a difficult one to accept, despite overwhelming evidence of its truth. He introduces the angel to his wife. "This is Dudley," says the bishop. "Dudley who?" says the bishop's wife. "Just Dudley," says Cary Grant, in a tone of casual mysterioso. This explanation seems to satisfy the bishop's wife for the rest of the picture. It also satifies everybody else. Even when Dudley performs minor miracles, such as rendering a bottle of wine perennially full, he is considered to be nothing more extraordinary than a nice...
...dominant tone is one of moderation. David Niven is moderately crotchety as the bishop; Grant is moderately supernatural as Dudley; Loretta Young registers a variety of moderate emotions as the wife; and Monty Wooley is only moderately Monty Wooley as an old professor. And the total effect, despite the unhesitant acceptance of "just Dudley" and his miracles, is moderately good. As the redhead decided, summoning all her critical forces into play, "I liked...