Sentence examples similar to plain tone from inspiring English sources

"The secret is her voice... the plain-speaking tone of a Lancashire lass who was also an aesthete, a joker and an exemplary friend".

Mr. Miller's plain pop tones are less effective though on songs like the revved-up waltz, "Brand New Day," which could really use the smoky pathos of a singer like Mr. Miller's contemporary, Joe Pernice.

The plain-spoken tone, and vague inference that underneath the tightly-wound exterior Abbott is a loveable, joint-toking Harold Ramis, received excited coverage.

The initial commercials feature Mr. Jones outdoors, leaning on a fence, and speaking to the camera in his characteristic plain-talk tones.

What's plain is the tone, a distant 9/11 echo, mournful.

The poems seemed to whirl up out of the poet's everyday speech, sharing the same plain but luminous tone and measure.

Its plain, vernacular quality struck an understated aesthetic tone for the first permanent element of the new World Trade Center.

An old brick chimney rises from the main building; the dinky reception boasts plenty of wood, glass and muted earth tones; plain white swans and perfectly normal-looking ducks potter solemnly about the pond.

In that speech, in which he struck a plain-spoken, humble tone, Mr. Karzai called on Afghans here and around the world to join in the challenge of reconstructing a nation brought down by decades of conflict.

"Following a decade of neutral tones, plain minimal design and 'playing safe' in interiors, the emergence of pattern and colour has thrusted back onto the design scene," says Steve Love of Camillin Denny Interiors, who draws parallels with textile designers working in the depressed 1950s.

He wears cardigan sweaters and captivates audiences with his humble tone and plain language.