Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts not found in most adults. One can't know whether Greek children of this time were much different from American children now, but their too-dispassionate conversation seems, at points, either contrived or more than human. True, this talk is in keeping with the measured, slightly cool tone of much of the narrative even Panagis's approach to love at the end of the novel is treated in an artistically businesslike fashion...
Other writers, though, say the hippies have lost out. "I'm really offended by a tone that pervades much of the Let's Go writing--it's the slightly snide, know-it-all rich kid tone," says Schor...
...though the Harvard alumnus insists he supports "the main thrust" of Reagan's foreign policy agenda, his campaign takes on a moderate and sometimes liberal tone...
...became so infatuated with aggressive investigation, so sure that a scandal lurked behind every closed door, that eventually a disdainful public began to comment on the "post-Watergate syndrome." Nowhere did the syndrome take hold more than at the Post itself, and nowhere does it hold more sway. A tone of suspicion, often anger, pervades many news stories. Some political pieces sound more like editorials: a reporter's interpretive rebuttal often appears higher in the story than the official statement he or she is rebutting, especially in stories about the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America...
...Thursday April 12, President Bok joined Fox's condemnation, releasing a statement "deploring the tone and content of the recent Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter." Bok went on to comment that "tasteless and grossly insensitive references to groups of people have no place in this or any other civilized community," adding that the newsletter was "totally inconsistent" with the University's commitment to full respect for men and women...