Word: toning
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...that over the past several months, China in particular has begun to replace the U.S. as the main obstacle to stronger climate-change action. During the IPCC negotiations that took place this week in Bangkok, Chinese delegates - with the support of India and other developing nations - tried to tone down the report, pushing to remove the most ambitious possible targets for future carbon-emissions levels. That move failed, but it's unlikely to be the last time China and India drag their feet on climate change. And as long as those two nations send out signals that they're unwilling...
...Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), a.k.a. Venom. "I like being bad," he exults. "It makes me happy." The third of Peter's rivals, Eddie-Venom is the reckless spirit of what teens would do if they dared, if there were no consequences, no censorious adult monitoring them. His tone of impish hell-raising seems out of place amid all the agonizing analysands - Peter-Spider, Flint-Sandman and Harry-Goblin - seeking to purge their inner demons, receive absolution for their sins. In this very serious movie, only Grace and Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, in a nice cameo as a varry Franch maitre...
...That sounds out of synch with the prevailing tone of pop culture, where sentiment has been largely banished, in favor of the male attitudes of cool, tough and ironic rule. Where can mass-moviegoers find release for their tenderer feelings? Only at dozens of inspirational sports movies, where guys (on screen and in the audience) get to cry and cheer and win. And, this weekend, at Spider...
...Sego landed her blows, proving to anyone that harbored any doubts that she can hold her own against France's most formidable political persuader. In doing so, however, she often resorted to a hectoring tone, serial interruptions and even derision ("Are you wounded?" she asked in dripping faux pity after one exchange) that could turn off as many voters as it attracts. Sarkozy might have come on stronger if he weren't up against a woman - and if he didn't already have a menacing image for many French voters. Surely that figured in his courteous response to a moderator...
...would be leaving after the season to start a family. in Virginia Team-leading scorer junior attack Kaitlin Martin, junior midfielder Jacqueline Hehir, and junior attack Tara Schoen all retaliated for Harvard with a goal each, tying the game at three-all. The first fifteen minutes set the tone for the first three quarters of the game. Brown would take a several-goal lead, then the Crimson would come back to tie the score. Freshman attack Sara Flood scored unassisted for the last goal of the half, bringing the Crimson within one in a 6-5 deficit...