Sentence examples for official tone from inspiring English sources

The official tone of ominous foreboding had been established.

After asking "Have you a bathtub?" the enumerator in the same official tone, asked.

China's vice president, Xi Jinping, set the official tone by sending Liu and Sun a message expressing sympathy and concern.

Despite the official tone of concern, many residents in southern Louisiana seemed almost nonchalant about the storm.

Since then the official tone has changed: a simple review of the status quo risks becoming a witch-hunt that threatens the havens' very livelihood, some fear.

Thus the official tone was set: the June 1953 coronation of the new Elizabeth was not just a moment to anoint a monarch, but to rededicate a nation to its historic purpose.

Still, government officials toned down their language on Tuesday after a week of issuing dire warnings and predictions, including a claim by one official that pro-Syrian forces were trying to kill enough lawmakers to tilt the balance in the presidential contest.

But she did object to the official's tone.

Hallett observed that Reynolds could often speak in an official oratorical tone while, in his letters, he used a much more human one: "witty, playful, idiosyncratic".

"Eventually we will make our assessment available," said the official, whose tone indicated that Mr. Bush was not in any hurry to use the report as a reason to go to war.

The archbishop of Paris joined the tide of criticism over France's crackdown on Roma, also known as Gypsies, calling it a "circus," while the European Union's justice commissioner on Thursday denounced French officials' discriminatory tone about the vulnerable minority.