Rather, in its harmonious balance between the playful (in tone and form) and the serious (in form and feeling), "Wild Grass" is among his finest in years, which makes it an event.
There was no predicting where Jeffrey Eugenides would go after his first two novels, so different were they in tone and form.
In tone and form, it shows a heavy debt to Kerouac, which is fine, because the generation he describes, and their experience in New York, was as close as China has come to the Beats.
Each film is distinct in tone and form, moving from the romantic comedy of Une Femme Est une Femme (1961) to the dystopian Alphaville (1965), from the skewed documentary impulse in Vivre sa vie (1962) to the melancholy comedy of Bande à part.
It was, in form and in tone, a kind of break-up note.
Written by Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things") and directed by the veteran Michael Apted, the movie is upbeat in tone, conventional in form, and often reminiscent of earlier inspirational pictures about heroes who overcome defeat and go on fighting against impossible odds.
I have been a longtime listener, an eager receiver of the speaking voice, in all its tones, forms, and variations.
A Monet floods the colour centres of the brain, and the areas that understand light, with all sorts of conflicting stimulation, before form ever gets a look in; Cézanne, meanwhile, found a way to make the brain perceive form in tone and texture rather than in the trick of perspective.
After Quintilian's day, satura began to be used metaphorically to designate works that were satirical in tone but not in form.
A bloody play, Gorboduc, by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, first acted in 1561, is now known as the first formal tragedy in English, though it is far from fulfilling the high offices of the form in tone, characterization, and theme.
