Sentence examples for scholarly tone from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kumar, who spoke in a soft, scholarly tone during the direct examination, became combative.

The current scholarly tone is, judging from the new books, realist but pessimistic.

Occasionally, the scholarly tone conflicts with the fanciful subject matter ("The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is "a rudimentary game book" whose "very bright colors are characteristic of the period").

The straightforward and scholarly tone of the series is a reflection of its creators, a clan that happens to take its American history seriously.

The news of increased hurricane activity and warming oceans is all the more alarming for being delivered in Mr. Gore's matter-of-fact, scholarly tone.

The romantic abjection of the second embarrassed me, and then the boundary blurred: Du Bois's scholarly tone was tinged with abjection; Fitzgerald's frankness with self-hatred.

But a characteristic one might suggest a vast rock'n'roll band, a Moroccan Gnawa street-ensemble, a symphonic band playing a hoe-down on Stravinsky, a free-jazz group, a jostling crowd of Dixieland parade-stompers, or a scholarly Schoenbergian tone-row outfit unhinged by an inhibition-loosening something in their drinks.

Aiden and Michel are far more entrepreneurial than scholarly in their tone, and their book has about it the breezy self-assurance of salesmanship.

The incredible segment goes on for 15 minutes, never straying from NPR's signature sincere-and-scholarly, soft-spoken tone.

The book's tone is scholarly, yet also celebratory, honouring the talents of scores of neglected scribes.

Her tone is scholarly but conversational, and informed by her own obvious pleasure in reading: "I live in [the world] with, and through, literature," she writes.