Sentence examples for setting the tenor from inspiring English sources

His wife, Gloria, sat next to him as the bronze bust of Richard Tucker, the Brooklyn-born opera star for whom the park is named, looked on - a great tenor, setting the tenor.

In it, Mr. Cooperman blames Mr. Obama (and his "minions") for "setting the tenor of the rancorous debate now roiling us that smacks of what so many have characterized as 'class warfare.' " This is serious, this roiling and this tenor-setting, but it is not the only damage the president's words have done.

But it happens at a time when, more than any time in recent memory, the issue of mass migration — whether by immigrants from Mexico and Central America or refugees from Syria and other parts of the world — is generating intense global anxiety and setting the tenor for a presidential election.

Both composers took the conventions of comic opera into consideration, choosing a baritone for the principal role, setting the tenor-soprano love story against family opposition to the marriage, and constructing a hoax which permits the happy ending.

But the letter set the tenor for the debate surrounding the festival.

And the US continues to set the tenor and tide of health funding around the world.

And her opening lines in the show's first number, appropriately titled "My Crazy Heart," set the tenor of the show to come.

Alan's single-mindedness, staying power and ability to influence secured not only the building itself, but also set the tenor of the future artistic programme.

Finally, to a large measure, the extent to which Mr. Giuliani's health sets the tenor of the race depends on Mr. Giuliani himself.

In an earlier set the tenor saxophonist Jonathan Moritz leads Evil Eye, with the trumpeter Shane Endsley, the bassist Jason Ajemian and the drummer Mike Pride.

A writer from Nottingham set the tenor of this argument by writing: "Because they betrayed a friend by stabbing England in the back at Suez for their own personal gain.