Sentence examples for Impatient tone from inspiring English sources

Stepping forward, they proclaim, in an impatient tone: "It's time to look forward, your honor, not backwards".

Unless you lay some prior groundwork, that gesture may seem almost as patronizing as an impatient tone of voice – and probably as likely to backfire.

Never mind the impatient tone, which seemed to suggest, "It's about time," or that this was a fairly minor milestone for one of the most gifted players of all time.

Maybe she believed I would say "this is all in your head!" in a dismissive, impatient tone.

"Madam, you understand that you called 911?" "How long will it take before you get there?" "Madame" -- the man's voice changes its impatient tone -- "Is this an emergency?" "Yup".

"Once I was in the Gynecological out-patient department, some female patients were shy and answered the medical staffs' questions in a low voice, whereas the staff would ask them in a loud and impatient tone which made patients uneasy and embarrassed.

She has, in some impatient, tone-deaf testimony, already provided some footage for commercials.

"You must love a country very much to be as little satisfied with it as she," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, later a United States senator from New York, wrote in his preface to a 1970 collection of Ms. Huxtable's writings, "Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard?" It was the first of several books whose titles alone conveyed her impatient, irreverent tone.

He asked me all of the same questions all over again, with an increasingly impatient, angry tone.

He declined to debate "any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn" or respond to Greeley's "impatient and dictatorial tone".

Grube-Reeve 1992 here and throughout, sometimes with minor revisions), and this tone of impatient aggression is sustained throughout his discussion with Socrates.