The looser tone fits a looser time, and some speakers now work with neither prepared texts nor fear of grammatical error.
Re "In Looser Tone, a Call to Take Risks and Be Engaged" (news article, June 16): Much of the graduation speech advice cited in the article assumes that by earnest effort and good will one can rise above failure, learn from it and thus achieve success.
The film adopts a loose, improvised tone.
He plays fast and loose with tone, pitch, and time, injecting avant-garde strains into mainstream material with offhand insouciance.
Filming mainly in sequence, Hawks lends the tale of looming menace and impenetrable mystery a loose, jazzy tone — one that emerges all the more sharply in the revised version.
The bowel wall become thin, with a typical "paper thin" aspect [14, 21], the loops loose the tone, and now are only gas filled so spastic reflex ileus evolves into hypotonic ileus, peritoneal free fluid can be detected too [22].
He quickly defied expectations when taking over "Late Night" in 2009 by hosting one of the most buzzed-about shows on television, marked by song parodies, celebrity impressions and a loose, freewheeling tone.
Physical examination revealed loss of proprioceptive sensation in both feet with loose rectal sphincter tone.
