Word: tone
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...natural" undermine what has been constructed by love? Jen is the least heavy-handed of authors, and she lets her characters, in their carefully crafted voices, find their own way out of the identity puzzle she's placed before them. Jen's fans might miss the controlled, sardonic tone of earlier novels like Typical American, but fragments of it still surface, as when Carnegie meditates on prejudice: "Americans believe all racism is a problem. Or at least a lot of Americans. Some, obviously, don't. Seeing as how they're racist...
...electoral season, when for once our politics are full of high passion (not to mention high dudgeon), Silver City suffers by comparison with reality. Michael Moore, among others, has either raised or lowered the bar on cinematic political discourse. For our sins, we now want something more gripping in tone than an earnest, wearying docudrama. This...
...both men struck a cautionary tone, predicting endowment returns would not remain as high in years to come...
...Anger is not going to change this country and do what needs to be done for America." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, responding to the tone of speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention...
...G.O.P. show. That honor went to the Purple Heart Band-Aids ridiculing John Kerry's Vietnam wounds that were distributed by a past associate of Karl Rove's. It goes without saying that Rove had absolutely nothing to do with the idea--except perhaps for setting the scabrous tone of the Bush campaign...