Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have done in failing to disassociate yourself from them." Kirkpatrick was merely taking the same hard line against anti-Americanism among nonaligned countries laid down by former U.N. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, yet diplomats at the U.N. were atwitter, grumbling that the letter was unmatched in its undiplomatic tone...
...were a harsh departure from traditional Tory civility. When Thatcher's Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, put forth a relatively mild motion on law-and-order, it was hooted down. Observed Political Commentator Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Beneath the incantations of the simple Thatcherite faith is a nasty tone of class grievance and sullen nationalism...
...capital swirled with rumors that Kania would be replaced, he adopted an uncharacteristically hard line. "Solidarity, instead of becoming one of the forces for socialist renewal, is becoming one of its main brakes," he told a meeting of the 200-member Central Committee. Kania's tone did not bode well for the future of party-Solidarity cooperation. Nor did the union's latest threat. It will meet this week to decide whether to call for a nationwide warning strike...
...Waste Land's familiar cast of characters-Phlebas the Phoenician, Mr. Eugenides, the Fisher King and the rest-do not appear. Instead, there is an Eliotian tone of dissociation, alienation and decay; and it is grafted onto an ambitious composition not unlike the burning phantasmagorias of Bruegel, filled with emblems of evil. Eliot (if it is he) functions, in the picture, like the figure of "Mad Meg" in Bruegel's Dulle Griet, striding through the landscape and inventing it as she goes...
...waitresses were all clad in blue jeans and they all seemed to look alike. They didn't seem to have to work too hard, probably because the restaurant wasn't particularly busy. Their screams for more silverspoons, glasses, or little dishes had a disturbingly plaintiff tone, as if the dishwasher wasn't doing his job. "Why aren't they any forks and spoons out here?" I heard the clones...