Sentence examples for shift tone from inspiring English sources

She writes scripts that establish, sustain and then gently shift tone and atmosphere -- not Tolstoy but Chekhov.

One suggestion is to record yourself and pick out the natural transition in your talk and shift tone during them.

"He had this tendency to shift tone suddenly from comedy to utter violence, so he was into what I call shock therapy," he says.

They know how to shift tone, when to get personal and how much, and when to bring in what kinds of facts and references into a conversation.

The thing that saves the movie time and again is Besson's uncanny ability to shift tone, sometimes even within a single sequence, from light comedy to serious action, to genuine emotion and even romance.

After two years he produced an amplitude control device called the Hamograph, which had 12 tape loop inputs, and allowed the composer automate amplitude to shift tone and pitch and add echo.

In literature, because of the scale, you can shift tones and atmospheres.

Its problem is its constantly shifting tone.

She shifted tone again, from irascible to sombre.

Haley's emphasis on shifting tone, however, wasn't a call for a shift in policy.

Toward the end, the movie shifts tone dramatically, if not surprisingly for Bollywood.