Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them again, and possibly again and again, even at the risk of some harm to the hostages. If that doesn't happen, the U.N.'s weakness will be so apparent that it will encourage the Serbs to play the hostage game even more than they have already." His tone leaves little doubt that that is just what he expects...
Popular for its satirical tone, All My Children tried to capitalize on viewer nostalgia last January, when it celebrated its 25th anniversary. The show spent a week reviewing in flashback its quarter-century on the air. It also produced a book, All My Children: The Complete Family Scrapbook, now in its fourth printing, and a nighttime retrospective to which its most famous fan, Carol Burnett, played host...
...cannot describe the tone of most of the articles as anything but masturbatory. Reading certain passages, I felt an unwilling thrust upon a personal moment between the Peninsula staffers past and present...
That pretty much set the tone for the first annual EEE (or E3, as insiders call it), the new spring showcase for the latest and loudest in video-game software and hardware. It was not a pretty sight. Five hardware manufacturers--Nintendo, Sega, Sony, 3DO and Atari--are battling for one of the top spots in a market that most analysts believe has room for no more than two or three...
Possibly true. Some filmmakers on a mission, moreover, can be guilty of bombastic overkill. Indictment begins with an ominous message-"This story happened in America in our times''-and has the sanctimonious tone of people who think they are discovering a horrid injustice for the first time. Indeed, Indictment makes its point far less subtly and effectively than such nonfiction works as The Thin Blue Line or the Frontline documentaries, which examined court cases that had been less thoroughly hashed over than the McMartin case. Still, for all its journalistic pretensions, Indictment is powerful and affecting television...