Sentence examples for modern tone from inspiring English sources

Shot in black-and-white in just 12 days, it has a modern tone (and a cast full of Whedon favorites, from "Angel," "Dollhouse" and "Firefly").

Soon Mr. Lamb was building worldwide, from Calcutta to Kansas City, and his theaters of the 1920s had a smoother, more modern tone.

Shot over 12 days in Mr. Whedon's home, the film takes an intimate, modern tone in relaying the comic tale of Beatrice and Benedick and their circuitous journey toward love.

Reading Amis's reviews from the fifties, one recognizes a modern tone, bullying and intelligent and contemptuous; soon after he started reviewing for The Spectator, the mandarin tone of Cyril Connolly, with its French tags and world-weary allusiveness, seemed completely dated.

The Orlando singers make the juxtaposition less odd by singing the Machaut with a velvety modern tone, a very different sound from what you can hear on the Ensemble Organum's conjectural 1995 recording on Harmonia Mundi, which presents the work in more rough-hewn timbres.

He was born in the middle of Victoria's reign, and his own work began the Celtic Twilight, those soft-focused, eerie lyrics of faeries and gods of the 1880s, but ended with a distinctly clean and modern tone and sensibility with the Last Poems of 1939.

The grand façade is all buttery stone and Neo-classical columns, while beyond awaits traditional luxury with a modern feel – marble floors, muted tones and yet more columns.

Amis was both modern in tone and antimodernist in feeling, a strong combination: reviewing "The Adventures of Augie March," he wrote that behind the protagonist "is Mr. Bellow, right in there pitching with his gaiety and good humour, his fizzling dialogue, his vitality," and he meant every one of the words to sting.

"I tried to follow the general feeling and tone, but with a more modern spirit".

Built around a single central consciousness, they take on a subjective, modern, confessional tone that gives them immediacy and an oddly American flavor.

The apartments' earth-tone interiors have a modern feel, with wooden floors, floor-to-ceiling windows and wide balconies.