Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
...when the imagination has been darkened by the horrors of the concentration camps, this simple, scrupulous man is an imaginative achievement. His genuine anguish when he fails to work the miracle very nearly wrecks the novel; his concentrated and intelligent fanaticism certainly spoils the aloof ironic tone that Maugham otherwise sustains throughout the book. But it may be that his earnestness will, in the long run, make Maugham's last novel, almost in spite of himself, be judged among his best...
Bollinger uses two devices to tone his planes down. Most airplane noise comes from air currents around fast-moving propeller tips. The engines are therefore geared down to make the blades move slower, and four-bladed props are used instead...
...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
...Homely Approach. Though he also continued his vehement attacks on the 80th Congress, and damned the National Association of Manufacturers, the homely approach set the tone for almost everything the President did last week. The crowds in the border states loved...