Sentence examples for faraway tone from inspiring English sources

The libretto for Sunday night's Academy Awards was written in many tongues, and even the melody that went with it carried a faraway tone.

Ask a European about Nokia and a faraway look will come into their eye, a wistful tone creep into their voice.

Fred gets this faraway look.

That empty, faraway look.

He used to have that faraway look in his eyes.

My ma had a faraway look in her eyes.

The warm, rolling bass tones, faraway vocal snips, buoyant hand drums, and slight shuffle jive well with the label's plush house aesthetic, not to mention the vibe of dwindling hot days.

But "New Slaves" is an imposing-sounding album, full of deep echo, with weird juxtapositions of close and faraway sounds, of real tones and digitally altered ones.

Ms. Ohara uses such different vocal sounds — breathy harmonized chorales, flat and nasal and wavering long tones, run-on talking, faraway screams — that you don't warm to her quickly as a particular or unified presence.

That has led to the bizarre position of two great clubs, entrusted with so huge a responsibility for setting the tone tomorrow, being owned by faraway Americans who knew nothing of the sacrifice that built English football, but were attracted by the dollars in the TV rights.

Ms. Amacher layered her noises — buzzing tones wrapped in sandstorm textures, rumblings like faraway thunder storms late at night, an idling motorcycle, jets swooping by — into an apocalyptic, terrifying landscape".