Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After reading a number of poems including, "In the Secular Night" and "Cell," Atwood said that many of the other poems in her book have a lighter tone...
Some were angered by the tone of defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran's closing argument and the impact it may have had on the jury's decision...
Hartman, in accepting the award, kept his remarks in line with the satirical tone of the event...
...sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near the end, when he briefly weeps for his wasted life, the pathos is shattering...
...politics, as in poetry, tone is fundamental. Citizens expect their governments not only to govern, but to do so with frankness, gravity and calm. Small wonder then that so many Americans are fed up with the ever more strident tone of contemporary politics...