Sentence examples for distant tone from inspiring English sources

It was heart wrenching a little while later when Mr. Barnatan evoked that same distant tone in the second-movement Andantino of Schubert's Sonata in A (D. 959).

His comment on drone strikes suggested a firm, and perhaps more distant, tone in relations with the United States, whose alliance with Pakistan has frequently been stormy in recent years.

Luther followed this insulting attack with a letter that has not survived but must have been full of similar contempt for Erasmus, judging from the cold and distant tone of Erasmus' reply (Ep 1688, Basel, 11 April 1526, CWE 12 135 138).

In phrases that echo richly with the distant tones of early Margaret Thatcher, he condemns "a bloated, high-taxing, welfare-heavy nation".

His distant, tone-deaf performance in the early stages of the strike has been widely criticised.

Three classes of stimuli were used: 'vowel deviants' and two classes of control stimuli: one acoustically similar ('single formants') and the other distant (tones).

Their sessions take on a distant, chilly tone, and she begins to feel like an "interloper".

I hear a click and a distant dial tone.

The trust said some audiences find the BBC's output "distant in tone and subject matter".

You have to go to "Great Expectations" — to the raw, shivering sea light and the talk of slit throats, all so vastly distant in tone, though not on the map, from this teatime in the warm sun — to find the same trembling sense of a plot in waiting and a book in bud.

When I ask him in as neutral tones as I can summon how he has managed all this profusion, he becomes vague; that distant look common to all people who would prefer not to explain themselves comes into his eye.