Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole who summed up the charge against Buchanan in a few words. The morning after New Hampshire, he said the G.O.P. primary race was now a contest between "the mainstream and the extreme." Later, under pressure from Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, Dole promised to tone down his attacks on Buchanan as an extremist. Since then, he hasn't toned them down by much...
...Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals...
Student activists say the tone of this year's protest marks a different stage in the fight for ethnic studies...
...freights Lady Windemere with melancholy. Her lines make her seem flighty and naive, but Amendola spaces them, pausing between delivery so that rather meaningless observations lilt in her mouth with undo contemplation. From her opening scenes with Lord Darlington, one expects a tragic conclusion based simply on Amendola's tone of voice...
Feaster scored 10 of Harvard's first 12 points against Princeton, establishing the tone of the game from the opening tipoff. Her performance was complemented by a strong showing from junior point guard Jessica Gelman, whose brilliant passing against the Tigers gave Feaster the chances she needed to score...