Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marital problems of one London couple, paced according to the speech of its eight-person cast and having in its three acts only two settings--a London drawing room and a psychiatrist's consulting room. Rising from this conventionally-British yet potentially-portentous setting, Eliot's language manages a tone of religious pronouncement and philosophical anguish that still sounds natural coming from the play's routine, middle-aged characters. It is just like when you read certain sections of The Wasteland over the phone to your mother, and your roommate notices that your speech is high-brow without noting that...
...During last semester there were meetings where the council would spend an inordinate amount of time on one piece of legislation and then not come to a different conclusion," Darling said. "The nature of debate has changed (because of) the tone Beth sets...
...Crimson Criticized in Magazine Article" (April 2): I was disappointed by the bitter and condescending tone toward Justin C. Danilewitz '99, a Crimson editor, in response to an article written by Danilewitz in Commentary magazine concerning The Crimson's editorial page and shoot process...
...narrated by the grownup Francie (Stephen Rea, who also plays the boy's father and Francie himself in the film's last scene) in the wryly humorous tone of a man looking back self-indulgently on a mischievous boyhood that came out all right in the end. But the personal history he recounts includes hugely destructive vandalism, arson, murder and a descent into decades of madness. The latter encompasses visions of the Virgin Mary (Sinead O'Connor, no less) appearing to him looking like a gaudy lithograph and behaving like a seductress; of priests looming up as giant science-fiction...
When they move up to the big cities, they make a farce of a Toronto heist and a near tragedy out of an Illinois train robbery. Linklater isn't quite skilled enough to make a virtue of these mood shifts and settles for a tone of wry, slightly distant amiability. The result is an agreeable movie, but one that is lacking the edge and intensity that films more self- consciously aware of their moral ambiguities sometimes generate...