Attlee began to speak in his usually colorless tone and he was greeted with an ominous quiet".
They got along well, and when they fought it was in the style that he preferred sentences clipped, reasonable but with a harsh and colorless tone.
Shamed by the scorn of outsiders and tamed by the colorless, dulcet tones of national television and radio announcers, New Yorkers just don't talk the way they used to.
The paintings are nearly colorless, but pinkish-beige tones layered over cooler hues create an opalescent glow.
Guests' clothes looked colorless — as in a half-tone world — and people looked older, too, as if a little aged by the weather, or by Fashion Week.
They should now look like colorless flames.
Mr. Fowler sang accurately and sometimes attractively, but his tone often seemed small and colorless alongside those of his partners.
The tenor Toby Spence made the most of the colorless character of John, singing with solid, attractive tone and good agility.
Gentle string and woodwind figures, as well as colorless sounds — blowing into a flute without producing a tone, for example — and pinpoint bursts of brass are woven together in a texture so mercurial that before you can focus on it, it has changed into something else.
Here the story grows even more fragmented, the tone even more depressed, the events even more colorless.
One of the new album's best songs is "Stray Dog," which features a gravelly spoken-word narration by Iggy Pop, very different in tone from the singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner's light and sometimes colorless singing voice.
