Sentence examples for authorial tone from inspiring English sources

"Authorial tone, point of view, the personality of an author, writing style, these are immutable things," he said.

But none of these parallels protect Nirmalya from the wry, knowing authorial tone that makes the book so pleasurable, despite the sparseness of its plot.

What is especially satisfying about "The Beard of Avon" is that it is not only shrewd and ambitious but also modest in its authorial tone.

When I do visit, I am dependent on the authorial tone of G.P.S. to narrate me through the city, and we both cheer when I arrive at my final destination.

Some find his style self-advertising - if the camera isn't on stilts, it's on skates - but the point is that what almost always disappears when a book comes to the screen is authorial tone.

Like the Forster, it was a spiritual adventure story, written with rhapsodic excitement, engulfing its mid-Victorian characters in huge shifts of time, culture, place and authorial tone, while also setting them on a course of moral evolution.

Indeed, both the defense secretary and the classicist-cum-freelance-writer have been heard repeatedly using certain other key words and phrases -- "American military presence in Iraq," "war of liberation," "Bush" -- lately, although, with dramatically different tones of authorial voice, depending on whether the secretary is speaking in his public persona or as "Mendelsohn".

She is not a likeable character, exactly, but she's a hard one to forget, and her peevish, mischievous tone of voice is an authorial triumph.

The scars of sorrow and remembered rapture bear witness in every tone of Mr Maxwell's unique authorial voice.

Though there's no doubt that Mr. Stone is as serious as a heart attack when it comes to creating an air of authenticity — hence the sloppily butchered chickens and authorial defecation — he never settles on a coherent tone for the movie.

It comes especially close in Wright's angular strain of postmodern poetry, which draws on refractive techniques now a hundred years old: collage, extensive quotation, multiplicity of voice and tone, found material, and, often, a non-authorial, disinterested stance.