Sentence examples for slippery tone from inspiring English sources
The timeline's been tugged (Amis's book took place in 1999, this feels contemporary) and the slippery tone of the novel is bullied by Cullen into a film that settles for montages: of nuclear testing, War of the Roses knights and trashy sports broadcasts.
With a bent, slippery tone that can melt within itself or churn with metallic edges, Mary Halvorson of Thumbscrew is the next great guitar hero in jazz.
His sound has more in common with the Americana-dusted ventures of Bill Frisell or the slippery tone of relative newcomer Mary Halvorson; both have appeared onstage with Cline in recent years.
Irreverent but considered, these scene-stealers — cigarette-slim and shown in extravagant brocades, cool jacquards and slippery jewel-tone silk blends — seem destined to be the life of the party.
But once description trumps prescription and currency eclipses timelessness, it becomes difficult to capture the slippery shifts in tone and fashion that accompany new words.
Already beloved among jazz fans for a slippery, pitch-melting tone that sounds as comfortable in chamber jazz as bent noise-rock, Halvorson caught the ear of music publications like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone upon the release of this solo recording.
Its mischievous tone and slippery form evoked the frontier of free jazz, and the musicians tackled it gleefully.
In the first instance, parties start to revive themselves by mastering such slippery things as mood, tone and emotion, before starting to tell a convincing story about the country.
Sirk suggests the looming deceptions of European history with games of shifting identities and allegiances and the shadow play of urban tangles and architectural labyrinths; the movie's slippery dramatic and visual tones suggest the menace of an underworld in plain sight.
A welcome one, however, in this critic's book: A previous nominee for Capote, Miller exerts immaculate control over the form and tone of this slippery story, drawing uniformly startling performances from a diverse ensemble, and balancing potentially hoary symbolism on a knife edge.
