Sentence examples for downbeat tone from inspiring English sources

Recent business surveys have had a downbeat tone.

Health professionals seem to like the drama's downbeat tone.

Or, at least, the downbeat tone was more than matched by moments of levity and verve.

Ferguson, usually so bullish, has struck a downbeat tone at times this season.

The downbeat tone has sent the group's shares 14.9p lower to 258.6p.

Paul Binotto achieves a more downbeat tone in a monologue from "The Killer," a play that is rarely produced.

Arnold's film is austere to look at and largely downbeat in tone, but Dickie's fine performance and a redemptive final note reveals its underlying humanity.

Those who had been exposed to more negative news tended to produce posts that were more downbeat in tone.

Circulation of the newspaper, long a fixture of London afternoon commutes, had dropped to less than 200,000, as free newspapers moved onto its turf and a relentlessly downbeat editorial tone grated on many readers.

But it's cinematically evocative contemporary jazz, not jazz/classical crossover music, with dZf framing a thriller story by Robert Ryan, narrated in downbeat gumshoe tones by Michael Brandon.

His tone was downbeat.