Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caller soon changed the tone of his questions...
From the article's headline, tone and front-page placement, it would appear that its purpose was to cast aspersions on Judith Kidd's remarkable achievements at City Year. In reality, all facts are to the contrary...
Imagine singing alone. Without instruments or music, standing before 15 fierce critics who judge each tone against countless others...
This mismatch came out in the singing as well. While she had mastered some of the chanteuse's mannerisms -- especially a nasal tone in words like "door" and "more" -- she still tended to be too thin and loud in the high notes, and the pace of some songs was awkwardly slack. Which simply means that she doesn't have exactly the voice for this repertoire; who else comes as close...
...audience and pretended to berate an audience member (A plant? He bore it with too much grace not to be,) in Weill's wonderful song "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." That, incidentally, was the best performance of the night, allowing deLima to combine histrionics with an aggressive, loudish tone; in other words, to be operatic (it's no coincidence, I think, that Weill was also the only "serious" composer on the program...