3. Drake thankfully isn't going to let "Started From the Bottom" dictate a faux-struggle rap tone for the rest of the album.
He bypassed the surface sheen of ingratiating sounds to render the beauty of that struggle; his piano tone is itself the sound of struggle, filled with the meeting of metal and wood and evoking spiritual exaltation through physical and intellectual exertion.
Moyra Davey, the photographer, filmmaker, and writer calls herself a "flâneuse who never leaves her apartment". In "Les Goddesses," her video included in the Whitney Biennial, she paces decisively around her home speaking into a microphone about subjects both scholastic and revealing the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, her sister's struggle with addiction her tone even and remote.
Its plot reflects his struggles, and its tone blends the paranoid tension of American film noir with the austere lyricism of modern theatre.
Goldman's chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, at times struggled with the tone of hostility, assuring lawmakers that he had no better foresight of the US economy than others in the market: "I don't think we're that smart".
I struggle to hear the tones, but feel optimistic that I'm able to notice some of the very high-pitched signals they're feeding me.
R.E.M. is judged not indie enough to include, but the band's gradual rise would have made an important contrast to the prevailing tone of struggle and disappointment.
In "Les Goddesses," her video included in the Whitney Biennial, she paces decisively around her home speaking into a microphone about subjects both scholastic and revealing — the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, her sister's struggle with addiction — her tone even and remote.
The former president seemed to struggle with the right tone as he took aim at Bernie Sanders.
I've learned that I struggle most with earthy tones.
