Yet the authenticity of tone, poised like life between slapstick and tragedy, doesn't falter.
Havlicek stole the ball!"), Allen's question is, by announcer standards, barely above a whisper, his tone poised between heartbreak and incomprehension.
Since all the characters in "The Bone Clocks" — even the Anchorites and the Horologists, alas — speak to one another with the same matey, Christmas-cracker jokiness, the effect is that of a novel without internal borders, everyone churning up the same bright, clever prose, the tone poised somewhere between Richard Curtis and Eddie Izzard.
As Christus, Stephan Loges was so poised and velvet-toned you wished only that the part was larger.
That Rawson Michael Thurber, who directed and wrote the screenplay, was motivated by sincere affection for Mr. Chabon's book is evident in his scrupulous attempt to capture the novel's delicate tone, which is poised between whimsy and heartbreak.
Her voice is poised between precise pre-war tones and grammar and an unforced modernity - a tension that exists in her work, too.
The wheeze sets the tone for what is poised to be a disruptive operation in the coming weeks as Ashcroft's pollsters drill into voter intentions in single seats, increasing the pressure on marginal battlegrounds.
But he did not dramatically change his tone or signal that he was poised to make urgent adjustments to his message.
They also magnify the foibles of even the most poised, experienced anchors: the mawkish turns of Mr. Brown; the supercilious tone of Peter Jennings on ABC; or the giddy cheerleading of many Fox News anchors.
Ilya Gringolts' fresh, sweet tone sang birdlike and elated in Vassily Petrenko's beautifully poised and balanced reading of Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
