Sentence examples for preoccupied tone from inspiring English sources

There is surely a relationship between the density of detail in Saeed's book and his experience, as against Antoon's more formally focussed, internally preoccupied tone.

That winter, a preoccupied tone crept into her letters to Nyesie: "I... heard from Beth that Winston had been killed over Munster ... and that his widow has had twins, a boy and a girl," she wrote.

In an era of virtuoso instrumentalists and self-sufficient singer-songwriters, Cooder was preoccupied with subtleties of tone, texture, and feel and mostly recorded other people's material.

Contemporary singers are preoccupied with beauty of tone, precision of pitch, and strictness of tempo; Renaissance writings tend to emphasize variety of gesture and attention to the text.

He may be preoccupied with body-building or "toning".

His plays not only became starker in setting and bleaker in tone, but also more preoccupied with the theme of memory.

This was the start of Pinter's later period in which the plays not only became starker in setting and bleaker in tone but also more preoccupied with the theme of memory.

The latter has been preoccupied with rhythmic stress and has exploited drum tones for their own sake.

Perhaps this act set the tone for the coverage, which has been preoccupied with the WAGs.

If so they may be preoccupied with keeping up the lie, and as such will be to busy to focus on tone, and dynamics in the voice.

In them he was preoccupied with the relation of light to different surfaces, the effect of enclosures and apertures on light intensity, the variation of tone, the complex arrangement of spatial units, and linear perspective.