Word: toning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sardonic critique delivered at lightning speed - no mumbling or pauses for him.) He sometimes seems to be in his own movie, one that's smarter and faster than the one he's been signed for. But having been entrusted to carry Iron Man, Downey sets the pace, establishes the tone and this big movie whirls along to keep up with him. Which it does; it fits Downey as smartly as his Iron Man jumpsuit...
...Holiday close the show. I catch a glimpse of her later. standing on a chair, digital camera outstretched like a periscope. “I’m trying to get close to him. He’s singing my favorite song. It’s my ring tone,” she says. After the finale, Alford breezes through the crowd of exiting guests. She’s prevented from answering my probing questions by the seemingly innumerable flow of friends who want her face in their pictures, so we arrange to meet up at the Eleganza afterparty...
...Bolduc’s article (“The Crack in the Glass Ceiling,” Op-ed, April 16) typifies the defective logic and unnerving excitement of those who disregard the existence of racism, sexism, and inequality in the United States. I describe Bolduc’s tone as one of excitement, for he (and others who claim racism no longer hampers minorities’ life chances) writes as if it is truly exciting that his “evidence” proves there is something defective about minorities, and especially blacks, that cannot be tied to mainstream...
...Israel as a Jewish state.” After presenting his own view of the Nakba and related history, Dershowitz answered questions, saying he would only take up questions from audience members who disagreed with him. Some of the questions took a more personal, and more strident, tone. Robin Zahran, of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, said Dershowitz was “as anti-Jew and anti-Israel as they come.” “You promote nothing but hate, you misconstrue reality,” said Zahran...
...conference Tuesday, as he pronounced himself saddened, angered and even outraged by the antics of his former pastor at the National Press Club a day earlier. "I find these comments appalling," he said. "It contradicts everything that I'm about and who I am." It was a far different tone from the finely tuned speech on race that he had given in Philadelphia in March, shortly after some of Jeremiah Wright's most inflammatory comments had first come to light. And it reflected the new political reality that Obama has confronted in what have been the rockiest weeks...