Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major factor in the Crimson victory over Florida was Blake's spectacular defeat of the Gators' Damon Henkel. The unranked Blake finished off the nation's seventh ranked singles player in straight sets, setting the tone for the day's singles matches...
...announced a deal with the Australian production company Village Roadshow to finance and distribute small dramatic films for about $10 million apiece, action producer Joel Silver is teaming up with "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner to make low-budget action films in the $10 million range. Setting the abstemious tone at the opening Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors for the "corporate studio mentality" that brought cookie-cutter creativity to the industry following a string of Hollywood financial disasters. He traced the trend back...
...case anyone missed it the first time, Pat Marvin did the same move four minutes later, give Harvard a 2-1 lead that set the tone for the rest of the period...
...sometimes the children get too excited. After ignoring repeated pleas by Tamika, the self-appointed leader of the ACT Corps volunteers, to put away their homework and to stop dawdling at the chalkboard, her voice takes on a harsher tone...
Furthermore, everything is couched in vivid, passionate language, by turns profound and stirring, agonizing and impenetrable. At times, it acquires a poetic, almost musical tone; indeed, by the end, the play largely abandons meaning in favor of the pure beauty of words. But even through the middle of the play, the dense language poses no small challenge. The play consists of lengthy monologues--often delivered just a little too quickly--which leave one struggling to keep up. Revelations about the banality and fakeness of existence are liberally spiced with whimsical references and odd metaphors...