Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mixing humor with gravitas, Mandela won loud applause for his deferential tone, insisting that he was accepting the honorary degree not for himself but for his entire nation...
...words are characteristically simple and the tone characteristically firm, free of confrontation and pretension...
Like it or not-and whether this sounds arrogant or not-Harvard is one of the colleges that sets the tone for other colleges across the country. Stealing minority coaches from other schools would show that we care, but it isn't going to make things much better...
...what Lieberman's speech, with its sonorous biblical tone, seemed to prove is that the White House's emerging legalistic strategy--to shift the focus of the debate from what Clinton did to what insist he didn't do--is doomed to miss the big political mark. Even before independent counsel Ken Starr gets his report to Capitol Hill, the President's lawyers plan to submit their own defense on what they consider the legitimate questions of conspiracy and obstruction of justice, the questions raised by the "talking points" that Lewinsky gave her friend Linda Tripp, by the career help...
Mount's preferred tone was down-home and nationalist: he was the first artist to paint the Yankee as a type. He painted barn dances, parlor courtships, farmers husking corn, truant children and jolly drunks. "Never paint for the few but for the many," he reminded himself in one of the numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer...