Sentence examples for class tone from inspiring English sources

When, on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Perry if he'd admit that the phrase was "pretty vile," Perry acknowledged only "pretty tough words," ones that he himself wouldn't use, as if it were a matter of class, tone, and bluntness.

Deputy PM Nick Clegg, a toff like Cameron but - despite his name - a foreign one, deploys a regionless middle class tone that at least has the benefit of sounding authentic.

Mark out of 10: 4 Native tongue: Old Etonian Cameron speaks fluent posh (though posh isn't as posh as it used to be), while Ed Miliband has followed Tony Blair's example and injected a touch of voter-wooing Estuary into his north London middle class tones.

The remit of Radio 7 was to introduce a new audience to speech radio – listeners uncomfortable with the middle-class tone of Radio 4. If budgets are the issue, it makes more sense to reinvent Radio 7 a listen-again service; none of the material broadcast is time-sensitive, so why does it need to be broadcast as linear radio?

These are the probing questions from certain Feedback listeners - some of whom wonder if this gives Radio 4 an overall middle-class tone.

Since most of the work is focused on the core, these classes tone abs quickly.

As Mr. McNally points out, Callas assumed ostentatiously upper-class tones in whichever language she was speaking.

Nicola Walker moves perfectly from white-suited colonial boy to independent granny championing masturbation in plummy, upper-class tones.

To be fair, she doesn't quite have the affected Edwardian upper-class tones of her brother, Jacob, but her posh country accent doesn't really mark her out as a woman to set her disaffected people free.

There were big, industry-wide strikes that sometimes took on a "class struggle" tone, but after 1946, a general social compact emerged.

Although the intersectionalities of my class, skin tone, and sexuality don't directly intersect with my race, I'm viewed as just a black female foreigner to many in Korea.