Word: tone
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...seem to embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...other characters. Were-Rabbit creates a panorama of rural England: dozens of humans with the standard Nick Park facial expression (dazed) and eccentricities (too much mouth and not enough teeth). Aardman's feature films are sponsored by the Hollywood studio DreamWorks, but their tone and humor are totally, defiantly, blitheringly English, in a manner reminiscent of the classic Ealing comedies. Were-Rabbit is admirably old-fashioned in another way: while the rest of the animation world has gone to computer-generated (CG) features, 95% of this film is handmade...
...freely given waiver as much as a year ago and that her lawyers dropped the ball--either they didn't understand the offer or they failed to communicate it to Miller. In a letter that Libby wrote to Miller after the negotiations resumed last month, Libby assumed an intimate tone: "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life." Libby said that he was surprised he was being asked to "repeat for you the waiver of confidentiality that I specifically gave to your...
...Dangerously Out of Touch? Matthew Cooper's article "Dipping his Toe into Disaster" discussed Bush's awkward and slow response to Katrina [Sept. 12]. But the point is not the political tone-deafness of the President or his handlers. It is whether his incompetence and that of his appointees have cost the lives of Americans. While the White House was working on speeches, people all along the Gulf Coast were desperate. They needed food and water, not rhetoric. Taylor Hebden Bloomington, Illinois...
Although the first meeting of the council was introductory in tone, it did include elections for the secretary and treasurer positions...