But the tone for mainstream commercial entertainment was set early on, when "Gladiator" won the first Best Picture Oscar of the new decade.
Mr. Dresser, a bassist who is one of the great instrumental forces in recent American jazz outside the mainstream, has a muscly tone and strong rhythm; he's also an inveterate creator of new bands.
These days, he uses those experiences to shape the Vine user experience and community through features like Editors' Picks, which has been around from the beginning and sets the tone for mainstream content.
For the left, which is often frustrated by the pro-Israel tone of mainstream media coverage of the region, The Onion's stance feels like a small win.
The inclusion of children in the storyline demanded a more mainstream appeal and a softer tone.
The respectable, detached, objective tone demanded by mainstream American journalism was, he thought, a powerful ingredient in the banality and dishonesty of American life.
(Chinen) WALT WEISKOPF QUARTET (Friday and Saturday) Walt Weiskopf, a tenor saxophonist with a warm yet burnished tone, leads a mainstream post-bop group with his brother, Joel Weiskopf, on piano; Paul Gill on bass; and Kendrick Scott on drums.
It sounded good, but it's just not transgressive anymore to play this way: wild, ragged and sing-songy, junking mainstream standards of pitch and tone, over a bubbling, uptempo beat.
Mr. Lightcap is one of the few musicians these days who has the breadth and inclination to divide his working life between what's called avant-jazz and the mainstream; he has a strong tone and good intonation, and with the drummer Gerald Cleaver he kept the waters active and choppy.
That is the tone employed for a mainstream audience, to assuage their sense that a group is alien or deviant.
