Sentence examples for pensive tone from inspiring English sources

In Erin E. Stead's delicate, atmospheric illustrations, a melancholic cloud always hangs overhead, lending a pensive tone that meshes nicely with Fogliano's rambling, meditative text.

For the youngest, liveliest, most visible and certainly hippest member of a formerly insular Old World family, her pensive tone seemed out of character.

Her music is steeped in the British folk tradition and the ways British, Canadian and American songwriters reshaped it in the 1960s and '70s: the modal melodies, the intricate guitar patterns she plays, the pensive tone of her voice, the imagistic lyrics.

Mr. Xu played the second movement's lyrical passages soulfully, with dark, pensive tones from the orchestra amplifying the mood.

Hayek then joked, "but for the next eighteen years you do as I say, follow my rules!" Once again, turning the blue pensive tones into bright passionate reds, with typical Salma Hayek flair.

But in "The Sound of Silence" — for just Mr. Simon, Mr. Marsalis and Mark Stewart on cello — Mr. Marsalis's obbligatos took a sauntering, traditional-jazz approach that didn't match the song's loneliness as well as, say, a pensive Miles Davis tone might have.

Its pensive pose and warm tones communicate Ms. Peyton's bond with her subject, just as Neel's sensitive 1963 portrait of her oldest son, Richard, then a student at Columbia Law School, reflects the level of their connection.

I mention these follies because they clash so badly with the tone — plangent and pensive — that Reitman tries to establish in his joke-free zone.

The slow middle movement adopts an unabashedly Neo-Romantic tone, with a pensive theme in the cellos and astringent, chorale-like passages for the soloists.

The women look pensive, even hauntingly regal.

Remain quiet, but look pensive throughout the showing.