She explained how Felix was inspired by Felicité in Gustave Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple, and how she develops her fiction by finding a tone and pursuing it.
"Shadow of the Vampire" at times falters in finding a tone and a narrative line adequate to its central ideas.
Reinhild Runkel delivered a satisfying account of the Nurse, finding a tone of icy superiority in a character who can come off as merely peevish.
Though she has come to the conclusion that she likes working on fiction best – "It's all about finding the tone of voice in the original.
Ms. Potter, always a strong singer, is now a dangerous one too, finding a tone that's ragged and loose on "Keepsake" and "Runaway".
Around the table sat a group of women with familiar concerns (finding the next project, setting costs and standards, how to negotiate working with other freelancers) – I remember finding the tone of the conversation surprisingly open, supportive, and encouraging.
Their insistence on finding a tone which almost explored and then almost disguised their experiences, and their great, astringent withholding, seem finally to have worked wonders for the readers of their poems in these years after their deaths.
The campaign also turned to the task of finding the tone it wanted to strike and the message it wanted to deliver as it continued its battle in another court, that of public opinion.
Their efforts ever since the head of NBC Entertainment, Brandon Tartikoff, approved the project in April have been aimed at finding a tone that preserves the grittiness of hip-hop without alienating a mass audience expecting laughs.
We must imagine Jean Baudrillard calling for the centre to be not "torched" but "dismantled", "kidnapped", "made to disappear" the very day after it appeared; we must imagine Baudrillard finding the tone that he would display, much later, at the time of his famous article on the destruction of the twin towers, and calling for the "implosion" of this machine for killing culture.
