Sentence examples for coercive tone from inspiring English sources
Badii starts to speak to this man, making small talk, with the slightly curt, coercive tone of a police officer.
With a teaspoon of vinegar added, the same qualities this brilliant actor uses to project an empathetic sensitivity curdle into something smarmy and ferretlike, and his rich oratorical voice assumes the wheedling, coercive tone of a snake oil salesman.
When I first read Boulez's writings, with their often coercive tone ("Any musician who has not experienced — I do not say understood, but, in all exactness, experienced — the necessity for the dodecaphonic language is useless"), I formed a dislike of their author.
Now this might indeed be how the law's voice sounds to those who feel no allegiance to the polity whose law it is, and it is how the law's voice should sound to those who relationship to it and to the polity is that of oppressed subject to alien sovereign: the law does speak to them in the threatening coercive tones of one who demands, and claims to have the power to exact, their obedience.
It does look coercive to me".
They feel impersonal and coercive," Mateen says.
