Sentence examples for quizzical tone from inspiring English sources

Gilmore takes it on boldly, exploring the tune's twists with his quizzical tone and brazenly bent notes.

Mr Dover does so evenly, without venom, and with a quizzical tone that suggests Mr Murdoch was a little naive about the Chinese.

Graves (unlike, say, Yeats or Auden) isn't easy to imitate, but his quizzical tone, and his precisely choice diction, are sometimes picked up unconsciously.

The cynicism surfaced only between numbers, such as when, after playing "The Entertainer," he repeated, in a quizzical tone, the line "I won't be here in another year / If I don't stay on the charts" and then exclaimed, "Bullshit!" A roar greeted the opening notes of "Just the Way You Are," and up in Section 106 I could see some women of a certain age singing along and dabbing their eyes.

I was in a traffic jam in the Seven Sisters Road, with my two daughters, nine and five, as the quizzical tones of the Today programme's Nicholas Robinson broke the news.

She of the quizzical look.

He gave me a quizzical look.

He gave me a slightly quizzical look.

She gives me a quizzical look.

Linda sent me a quizzical look.

But my patient has a quizzical look on her face.