Word: tone
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...peril element introduced by the thief often falls flat. The sections in which he tracks down Damien and Anthony seem to aspire to the taut suspense of Boyle’s previous films, but hampered by the family-friendly PG rating, they are generally muddled and jarringly different in tone...
...refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film’s tone...
...professors described a tone unlike the intensity and contentiousness that have marked Summers’ three meetings with the FAS over the past month, in which professors have sharply criticized the president’s leadership style...
Perhaps buoyed by the upbeat tone of the meeting, Summers cracked frequent jokes and received enthusiastic laughter in return...
...contrast, in “The Metamorphosis,” an adaptation of Kafka’s identically-titled 1916 short story, Auslander masters the tone of reverential parody...