Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most important, has developed the boys' relationship with their father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship of his wife, Jessie (Emily Lloyd), more fully than they are in the book. Partly it is because director Robert Redford has rigorously maintained the understated tone of a book that never plea-bargains, never asks outright for sympathy or understanding, yet ultimately, powerfully, elicits both...
...just asked if he could help us, and weasked his input on what he could do," Cortes said.He hopes that "the productivity of the meetingtoday" will set the tone for the future...
...After the tone, state your vice presidential preference of either Jeremy Knowles, Paul Tsongas or a man who has actually slept in the White House--Frank Sinatra," the message said...
Those means did not for long remain unemployed. Assassinations in Sarajevo in 1914 lit a spark that set off an unprecedented explosion of destruction and death. The Great War did more than devastate a generation of Europeans. It set the tone -- the political, moral and intellectual temper -- for much that followed. Once the carnage (more than 8.5 million military deaths alone) had ended, the tectonic aftershocks began to reverberate around the world...
...tone for the rest of the weekend," fresh man Alex Kim said...