Sentence examples for straight tone from inspiring English sources

The orchestra played with straight tone, in incongruous contrast to Ms. Hahn's generous use of vibrato, which enhanced her rich, sweet sound.

In Bach's suite the strings — playing with limited vibrato, in line with current notions of period practice — never achieved ideal warmth, and the resulting straight tone mercilessly exposed minor flaws in intonation.

The specialist Mr. Scholl, apart from his splendid lyrical gifts, gave an occasional lesson in what is now thought to be an appropriate use of vibrato in Baroque music, starting with straight tone and gradually warming it with vibration.

Its almost oppressively straight tone is off-key from a company such as Microsoft, which has a large LGBT workforce.

They were simply low-frequency tones on their own so I processed them so that they warbled and chorused and were a bit more mysterious than the straight tone.

His electrifying pianism is matched by a well-pitched voice, able to sing a controlled straight tone adding a small, healthy dose of vibrato, in a very homogenous, natural way.

"I have some questions," he tells the community researchers, then tries to approximate their straight, white tone: "Who's Pigmeat Markham's Mama?" he asks.

On one level, the News in Briefs "worked" because they juxtaposed a straight, jokeless tone with the model's big smile.

But the white, straight, sexless tone that evokes this comparison is only one color in a sonic palette that brings many kinds of sounds -- from percussive col legno strikes to sustained, rasping tutti chords -- onto an equal footing with more traditional means of instrumental expression.

He lacks the screen presence of someone like Carl Lumbly, who voiced the character on Justice League, but Morris holds his own and delivers the lines in that strong, straight forward tone that is signature Manhunter".

But it's McMillan's willingness to dig into a little-discussed corner of agribusiness, and the straight-talking tone with which she lays out the facts, that makes the piece stand out.