Sentence examples for English tone from inspiring English sources
The phrase "English tone" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to refer to a distinctive type of diction, grammar, and even pronunciation used in the English language, or to refer to a particular style or quality of voice associated with English speakers. For example, one might say "The English tone in John's speech differs from the tone in his writing."
In his New York gallery, Duveen was a stickler for keeping up the correct English tone.
These veer from the brisk, quintessentially English tone of Juliet Peck describing her friendship with the Afghan mujahideen commander Abdul Haq, to Shusha Guppy's quietly reverential tale of a janitor at the Tehran theology college where her father used to teach.
Many of the foreign words Gray adapted were previously used by Shakespeare or Milton, securing an "English" tone, and he emphasised monosyllabic words throughout his elegy to add a rustic English tone.
Millfield in Somerset inculcated a love of acting, and cemented her public school English tones.
Though Rooney's version speaks in plummy English tones and has spectacular psychedelic headware, her feather-adorned outfit is unmistakable in influence.
"The appeal of the monarchy is that it is not dependent on one single constituency," Sharif Ali said in modulated English tones.
I heard more than one audience member observing, between acts, that they missed the pear-shaped English tones with which she is identified, and she did somehow seem naked without them.
In Two Fat Ladies, her hit show with Paterson, Dickson Wright was a kind of straight woman to her eccentric partner, whose even more fruitily English tones were full of rolled r's and theatrical melodiousness.
Many of the voices in Stone's picture have a serrated Celtic edge to them, which makes a change from the polite, sugar-sprinkled English tones in which most historical dialogue is enunciated.
Or J.G. Ballard, with his measured English tones.
By referendum day, says one Conservative grandee, the anti-English tone in Scotland, combined with the promise of further devolution and the preservation of the hated Barnett formula, had rendered the status quo unsustainable.
