Sentence examples for hurt tone from inspiring English sources

JIMMY (in a hurt tone): Oh, I don't know.

On her next broadcast, she let slip some remark in a hurt tone about her sponsor's grievance.

She adopted a hurt tone and said of Mr. Obama: "He's very likable, I agree with that.

"What I find demoralizing is that there is no organization on earth that is doing more for the poor than we do," Mr. Wolfensohn said in a hurt tone this week.

Every now and then he would call an associate and, in a hurt tone of voice, say, "Barry yelled at me".

"Clearly, they don't rate me or they would not have sacked me," he said at the time, pointing the finger at Damazer in unmistakeably hurt tones: "I think the reason is very clear.

"It will really hurt the tone by shoving health care through.

Watt, hurt by the tone of the postcompetition questions, struck back and said that he believed a silver medal in his first Olympics was something to be savored, not bemoaned.

I suppose I was breathing hard, or perhaps I was crying, for after a time I heard a listless voice that had never been listless before say, "Is that you?" I think the tone hurt me, for I made no answer, and then the voice said more anxiously "Is that you?" again.

Mr. Arvin gets away with too many lines like "She was so beautiful it hurt," and with frequent tone-deaf use of subordinate clauses ("unlike what Stephens had said, there was no record of any criminal activity").

Although some sonic elements on Everyone Alive Wants Answers are by now a little played out (if I hear one more person use a sample of children's voices, I swear I'll hurt somebody), the layered tones and harmonies and the lack of rigidly defined melodies give the music a smoky quality.