Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he discusses the current issues confronting the region's leaders and their allies in Washington and Moscow, for example, Carter slips back four years and settles into State Departmental lingo. In a tone reminiscent of the memos he had to wade through during his yours in the oval office, he methodically lists the goals, interests and strategies of all of the area's key actors...
...awoke before dawn to "catch a flavor" of the ancient city as if "might have been two thousands years earlier when Jesus strolled the same streets." For Carter juxtaposing ancient history and yesterday's news is essential. But for readers of The Blood of Abraham, his shifts in tone and style are just plain confusing...
...applicants for about four spots each year, says Cass. He adds that the process of try-outs is intimidating: after a week of cuts, the finalists sing with eight of the Kroks while the other four stand "within a foot of each mouth and listen for blend and tone," says Cass...
Those stories which are cast in the first person, while never quite losing the ironic tone, are darker and less distanced from their own pain. "What is Seized" is a fragmented account of a mother-daughter relationship (one of Moore's recurrent obsessions) in which both characters attempt to come to terms with the painful legacy of a bad husband and father: 'Cold men destroy women,' my mother wrote to me years later. They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed to their souls like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think...
...GATT document was greeted by U.S. officials who have been pressuring Western Europe and Japan to ease restrictions on American products and services. "I welcome wholeheartedly the tone and tenor of this report," said U.S. Trade Representative William Brock. He called the recommendations "just the sort of tonic necessary to reinvigorate the global trading system, which we have worked so hard to foster since World...