Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tone of this posting screams religiousdiscrimination," King said. "When we talk aboutembracing diversity at Harvard, this is theantithesis of that...
...course, this game was not a fairy tale. Harvard could not sustain itself through the second. Two penalties to open the period set the tone for the frame and Clarkson struck twice during the period, scoring first on a power-play goal by Philippe Roy on the power play...
...Chaney roles. In short, they are knowing yet desperate inventions. So is the farcical but flat rescue that Babe and Mrs. Hoggett lead when their friends are impounded by motivelessly malign city authorities. Studio executives ordered last-minute fixes on the film because they found it too dark in tone, but its inherent, insoluble problem is that in its frenzy to top the original, it has lost touch with the first film's gently whimsical spirit...
...literally awakened by something preying on my mind. I sat bolt upright in bed and said, "We never found out what happened to those vanished pigeons!" My wife stirred. She'd heard me use that tone of voice before at around that hour in the morning, usually to say something like "Did we forget to drain the pipes...
...many of the stories found in the volume, "Mexico" is a story Boyle presents to evoke pathos without overly dramatizing the tragedy. The rapidly spiraling life of a lonely man in Mexico is presented through the eyes of the man as he drinks himself indirectly to death. Yet the tone Boyle uses for the narrative is not passionate or deploringly depressive; instead he fills the pages with a sullen sadness that suffocates instead of ignites...