Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said in a hushed, conspiratorial tone. "But this time I got them back...
...true story is too singular to serve as the basis for moral generalizations. The ideas advanced by the film are, in any case, not significantly different from the ones put forward by opponents of the war while it was going on. But it is its distant and curiously monotonous tone that finally betrays Casualties of War. It numbs the conscience instead of awakening...
Jonathon turns to Moshe and Dovidl as they unroll the Torah. "Would you like a Sephardic or an Ashkenazic melody? Actually, I rather fancy Sephardic. I picked up a lovely niggun in Turkey." Jonathon bends over the scroll and begins the laiining in his light, springy head tone...
...style of a hierarchical demand than a request from an equal? Did no one conceive of the presumptuousness of speaking that way to anyone, regardless of color or gender? Did no one even notice the absence of so basic a courtesy as "please"--or blush for the tone of despotic privilege that omission almost invariably conveys...
...uses the same digital recording technology that produces the clear tone of the compact disc. And just as the CD sounds better than a regular LP, a DAT tape is a quantum advance from a standard audio tape. The DAT tape is also conveniently small: 2 3/4 in. long, compared with 4 in. for an ordinary cassette. But better sound will initially come at a high price: DAT recorders are expected to run at least $1,000, and prerecorded tapes could cost more than $25. The recorders, along with DAT tapes of everyone from Mozart to | Madonna, could start appearing...