Sentence examples for an overtone of from inspiring English sources

Consumerism (from the Latin consumere, "use up") has an overtone of waste.

To me, that intoxicating scent -- sweet, spicy and ripe with an overtone of honey -- is the embodiment of high summer.

Because the adjective means "undertaken by one," which is diplomatically quite incorrect, or "one-sided," which carries an overtone of arrogance.

When we are close to nature, we sometimes find ourselves, as Christians put it, surprised by joy: "A happiness with an overtone of something more, which we might term an elevated or, indeed, a spiritual quality".

Today, the word's use in America still has an overtone of deliberate exaggeration among remaining Dooley fans, though on the Indian subcontinent, newspapers in English use it as a synonym for "terrorist".

"He's a terribly good person, almost in the sense of Jimmy Stewart in 'It's a Wonderful Life' combined with an overtone of Gregory Peck in 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' " Mr. Ball said.

This has sweet berries, hints of ripe damsons and blackberries, but there is an overtoning of tannins that gives it real weight.

From the phonon dispersion and the corresponding phonon frequency, the 2450 cm−1-band can be assigned as an overtone mode of LO phonon (i.e. 2LO).

You need a smooth, gentle voice and an arsenal of syrupy come-ons, but you also need something else: a sobbing overtone of sexual desperation; a gravely hint of menace; a fierce, throaty suggestion of perseverance, maybe even revenge.

A far better choice, it turned out, was spinach quiche, a round tart about the size of a CD, with a short, buttery crust and a lovely overtone of nutmeg.

As Camille, Paul Groves sang prettily but with an unpleasant overtone of strain in the top notes.