Sentence examples for in which tone from inspiring English sources

But she is done few favours by this lacklustre production of an early play in which tone and focus slip all over the place.

Belafonte came of age as a vocalist in an era in which tone and modulation were paramount, watched as those foundations were successfully subverted, and then grew expert at drawing from both customs.

At the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal, James Taranto can't muster any outrage, either: "This is one of those cases in which tone is more important than substance, and the tone of this funeral, from what we've seen, was largely a high-spirited and celebratory one — in sharp contrast with the creepy manic rage that prevailed at Sen. Paul Wellstone's funeral in 2002".

"Margot at the Wedding," from 2007, was more than an exuberant outburst of pent-up bile and humor; it was a filmmaker's awakening, in which tone and rhythm, space and light — moments of being rather than lines of dialogue — were central to the effect.

This finding is comparable to previous results, in which tone identity was always fully predictable.

The 90s had Tony Blair's two pals: Mondeo Man and Worcester Woman: each a family-lovin' politics-indifferent nimby shaking off their working-class roots for the more anodyne middle-class frame of mind in which Tone specialised.

This, after all, is the man who preferred creaky old retainer Ashley Giles to sparky newcomer Monty Panesar in the first Test, in which, tone-settingly, England were annihilated.

June 25 2011 Kimura is the performer-innovator of a violin technique called "subharmonics," in which tones can be played that resonate beneath the instrument's lowest string.

Often, they strove for the widest possible meaning, the most ambiguous resonances; the musical equivalent might be the organ stop known as a "mixture," in which tones of related pitch are played simultaneously by a single key.

James Hepokoski, the leading writer on Sibelius, speaks instead of "soundsheets" (restless shimmers of sound from which more definite ideas germinate); "static blur" (passages in which tones pile up into an amorphous, softly dissonant mass); and "rotation" (a group of ideas passing in waves, changing shape with each cycle).

This also allows us to revise the linear pitch ordering to accommodate the auditory sense in which tones that differ by an octave nonetheless are the same pitch.