Word: toning
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...Wild Side) and respected plays (The Killing of Sister George), and the films based on them. The plot dilemma of that age's serioso movies was often just the threat of being accused of homosexuality, as in Tea and Sympathy, The Children's Hour and Advise and Consent. The tone was sensation dressed up as sympathy...
...armed with plastic hand-clappers milled around near him. "[Thaksin is] a selfish criminal who is willing to destroy the country for his own personal gain. I'm really worried that violence will increase and the country will be in a civil war." Then, in a marked change of tone, Puchong apologized for the siege that had stranded thousands of tourists in an airport whose Thai name, Suvarnabhumi, or "golden land," seemed particularly inappropriate at that moment. "We don't want to inconvenience people," Puchong said. But such a sentiment probably comes too late. Even when Thailand re-opens...
...Giovanna Negretti, the co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste?, which encourages Massachusetts Latinos to enter public service. Booker took to the stage with a modest smile and jokes about Stephen Colbert’s recent lampooning of him, but gradually adopted a more dramatic and impassioned tone reminiscent of former President Kennedy’s “New Frontier” inaugural address, a clip of which began the ceremony. He spoke about his parents’ devotion to teaching him about “great men and women,” which included keeping...
...Though Harrell’s performance was mostly characterized by the dreamlike quality of nebulous sound, sometimes so soft that listeners had to strain their ears to hear the pitch, his virtuosity was not dampened by his sensitivity to touch and tone in the lyrical sections. Every note in the spiccato passages of later movements was clearly articulated, and difficult ascending scales and slides were timed to perfection...
...tone was echoed in the final report issued yesterday by the summit, which included elected members of the parliament-in-exile, regional leaders of the Tibetan diaspora and independence activists. They recommended that after three decades of following the so-called "Middle Way" of seeking autonomy within China, the movement should consider some new options if there is no progress in negotiations: stop sending envoys from the Dalai Lama to China, for example, or simply pursue full independence: "The Middle Way Approach, independence or self-determination, whatever is pursued in the Tibetan struggle, we shall not deviate from the path...