With the right kind of reinforcement – the escalating tones when you get hit pegs in Peggle, for example – you don't need to be TOLD that the more pegs you get, the higher your score: the sound and the visual feedback all do that.
It is as if the axis led by Tehran was intentionally escalating its tone to get Riyadh fixated on the war in Yemen in order to be able to dominate the war in Syria, or at least this is what their plan, given all the new emerging elements affecting the dynamics of the Syrian crisis.
At times protesters' rhetoric escalated in tone, as a steady downpour lightened to a drizzle.
Addressed by a father to his daughter, it escalates in tone from soothing to pleading to berating.
In recent days, Moscow has escalated the tone of its assertions, saying that Washington was supporting terrorists.
The protests escalated in tone and intensity, and Mr. Jospin was harangued throughout his visit, despite his attempts to proclaim France a friend of Lebanon and a critic of the Israeli occupation zone.
Give me a break!" Mr. Boehner has spent much of the week sharply criticizing the president in escalating language and tone, setting the stage for a bitter and nasty finish to a deeply divisive legislative session.
Escalating the testy tone of Thursday night's debate, New Jersey's Republican candidate for the United States Senate today accused Senator Robert G. Torricelli of accepting campaign contributions from supporters of a group that is labeled a terrorist organization by the State Department.
"I served with Jack Kennedy," he said, his tone escalating toward steady indignation.
When tension builds, the sound of what I feared might be house music but turned out to be a tone of escalating alarm is heard, an admittedly odd choice in Darron L. West's otherwise impeccable sound design.
It is not Christmas until you have had one-thousand, one-hundred-thousand, one-hundred-thousand-million emails about what time to leave for the Christmas party and where, each email escalating in severity and tone, until in the end they are just a high screech like a car alarm with a Love Actually.gif attached.
