THOSE looking for hints of racial tone-deafness on the second episode of "Girls," last Sunday on HBO, wouldn't have been let down.
With hints of 12-tone rows and Bergian richness, the music shows signs of Mr. Shore's craft in almost every measure.
Still, the music teems with astringent orchestral flourishes, skittish thematic riffs with hints of 12-tone contrapuntal writing and pungently chromatic harmony.
High Voltage! was a fantastic record: it had a taut, thrilling guitar hook, an explosive chorus and even a sax solo that carried a hint of 2 Tone.
We want you to be with us, and for those of you who are going to obstruct, get ready to be knocked over.' " Offering a hint of the tone he would take as his party's spokesman, Mr. Steele said the Republican Party had been unfairly caricatured by Democrats "and the media" as racist and insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans.
Correspondents say there were hints of a softer tone after that meeting, with Mr Cameron talking of a "conversation" and "keeping up pressure over the longer term".
But there are other hints, like a certain kindness of tone in whatever ends up on the air or the printed page.
It is still dark, but it has a hint of shellac to it; its color is solid where there should be hints of light, and the tone only varies toward the ends, where, thinned and frizzed, a faintly electric red takes over.
Underneath the humorous tone are hints of urgency that come through more in radio spots that will begin in January.
La Hurley beamed, while the world recoiled at Warne's newly brightened teeth, highlighted hair, Ronseal-hued skin tone, and hints of (thankfully undisclosed) "man-scaping".
