They offer a tone, but this is hardly, to name a couple of prolific letter writers, Kingsley Amis or Hunter S Thompson, let alone Thomas and Jane Carlyle, generally seen as epistolatory communicators supreme.
When Brown visits Brussels today he should offer a tone of encouragement to the commission, as well as indicate that under his government Britain will be a leading player on the European stage.
The commission itself has come as something of a flash of light: 'Every now and again life sends us little messages,' he offers, in a tone a little reminiscent of the Mormon management gurus.
The terrorists' acronym, SOB, offers a flavour of Shriver's tone in this tale of jaded foreign correspondents and ranting ideologues.
Rachel Donadio, in "Revisiting the Canon Wars" (Sept . 16, offers a balanced tone, but not a balanced essay.
Mr. Beggs, whose roots in the New Wave band Kajagoogoo showed in his costume (a black kilt and net shirt), countered Mr. Jones's inevitable heaviness with his stick, a modified guitar fingered with both hands that offers a liquid tone.
The utter incredulity, perhaps insisted on by the producer in Lauren Green's earpiece, was offered in a tone of self-evident disbelief: Who could even imagine that a Muslim could write about Jesus?
The most words spoken by any character belong to Alice's best friend, Mary Julie Whitee), whose well-meaning advice offered in a tone of forced cheer, drives Alice to scream in frustration.
The real-time noise-aware TMO developed by [25] offers a video tone-mapping process that controls the visibility of noise as well as it is capable of adapting itself to the display and viewing conditions and minimizes contrast distortions.
What he offered was a tone--crusty bemusement eventually resolving itself into a kind of wistful poetic insight.
