Sentence examples for rigid tone from inspiring English sources

They can both complicate his political and foreign agenda, and set a much more rigid tone.

Mayak's and Yunost's programming was slightly less rigid in tone and more open to popular music, though the ideology was no less reflective of the Kremlin line.

The tone is set early and set rigid.

"He is an intensely serious guy whose identity and behavior and tone is pretty rigid, and that's fine," said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant who once worked for former President Bill Clinton and is now unaffiliated with either Democratic candidate.

By the time the next earth summit takes place, in September 2002, in Johannesburg, he reckons it may be in force, even without America.The key, he argues, is for Europe to do this not with bitterness, and certainly not in the rigid, moralistic and ultimately costly tone that it adopted in The Hague.

Dance music, with its easy beat and ever-expanding appeal, has influenced all kinds of musicians, banging sounds and styles into rigid form while working through new tones in real time.

The sensible assumption is that he would have tailored it to his own strengths, toning down the suffocatingly rigid format and ramping up the live-wire spontaneity of the studio sections.

The MAS is a common clinical test used to determine spasticity, with ratings from zero (no increase in muscle tone) to four (the affected part is rigid in flexion or extension).