Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Will I ever see you again?" Milosevic asked, in a dry, flat voice. Holbrooke answered, trying to mimic the same emotionless tone, "That depends on your actions...
...disingenuous for rich and famous moviemakers to tell us how awful it is to be rich and famous on television. As it happens, the moral of EDtv is of less import than its tone--which seems loosey-goosey but is carefully land-mined with gags--and its characters, who are unremarkable but worth getting to know. Shari, for instance, is a woman at profound discomfort in her bountiful body. Ray treats Shari as a gaudy accessory, and she accepts his evaluation. Elfman paints a nice portrait of a woman fighting for esteem. (Psst: she gets it from...
...Undersea," the young writer's first publication in a national magazine (September 1937), was seminal in theme and tone to all her later writing. Together with an evocative Sun feature, "Chesapeake Eels Seek the Sargasso Sea" ("From every river and stream along the whole Atlantic Coast, eels are hurrying to the..."), it was the starting point for her first book...
...introduces Touch-Tone dialing...
...traditional ones are good too. But it shouldn't be just the three-balls...but I do think that the classical "frosty" is cute--if done properly--in more of a full tone, instead of just three balls...