Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely shared the values of the class he depicted. If that made his portraits a little monotonous in social tone, it helped save them from the hateful obsequiousness of modern society painting. For Gainsborough was his own man: not a grand one, but not a toady or a leech either. "Damn Gentlemen," he once wrote. "There is not such a set of Enemies, to a real Artist, in the world...
...Scribners; $10.95) is written by Charles Forsyte, the nom de plume for a husband-and-wife team of British mystery writers. The Forsyte book picks up where Dickens departed but omits the preceding chapters. The reader is left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood...
Most professors who spoke at the meeting expressed general agreement with the tone of a discussion memorandum prepared by Bok's office and distributed to the faculty. The memo pointed out advantages and dangers of the University's becoming more actively involved in technology transfer, but took a cautiously favorable attitude toward the idea...
...suppresses a scream and then a wince as horror replaces terror and sorrow replaces horror on his face. Later, when Treves displays Merrick before the audience of physicians, he must describe, in detail, his physical distortions. Hopkins delivers these lines quickly, his short clipped sentences and detached, analytical tone fighting the emotion that threatens to crack his voice...
...Lynda says as she departs, adding that it has always been her dream to become a French translator. "But you don't speak French," says Melvin. "I told you, it was only a dream," she replies, and in the sudden rush of ferocity that comes into her tone the truth of this film lies...