Mr. Helm gave his drums a muffled, bottom-heavy sound that placed them in the foundation of the arrangements, and his tom-toms were tuned so that their pitch would bend downward as the tone faded.
The tones of blue represent downward motion while the tones of red represent upward motion.
The course of the play is thus the final loop-the-loop of a cataclysmic downward spiral, and its tone is set by Butley's verbal gymnastics, his ever more frantic effort to forestall the inevitable.
This can be done by curling the tongue either upward or downward and produces a deeper tone.
Arriving for my technical rehearsal the day before my show was to open, the staff at the venue spoke to me in almost deferential tones, eyes cast downward, each response punctuated with a sort of spastic half-bow.
Multiple comparisons revealed that 32 kHz tones elicited a significant downward shift of the curves at 100 dB for both the exposed-clean and exposed-dirty groups compared with the sham group (t = 3.071, P ≤ 0.05, for the exposed-clean group; t = 2.950, P ≤ 0.05, for the exposed-dirty group).
You feel the downward drag.
The perceived direction of the tone shift was upward or downward, depending on the subject's dominant spectral (SP) or holistic (H) sound perception.
After that, the tone of the evening took a downward turn as we all made up choruses about the utter humiliation of Colin Powell, the Arab world, the press corps, and the liberals.
Over time, the muscles that support the pelvic organs can relax, stretch, and lose their tone, causing the uterus to sink downward into the vagina.
