Mr. Kearns has a more forthright delivery, clear and ardent, while Mr. Tynan has a higher, sweeter tone with a touch of a sob.
Reviewing the performance in The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote that other sopranos might have more power or a sweeter tone, but "there is none around who has the combination of technique, vocal security, clarity and finesse that Miss Sutherland can summon".
Martin was in the next room, and he caught the sweet tones, the two voices he loved, that he couldn't even bear.
Mr. Kohler finished the dish with a creamless sauce of Dijon mustard and local Saddle River wildflower honey, whose spicy and sweet tones balanced each other.
"It was Lorelei," Mr. Fendel said of the maiden who, legend has it, lures sailors to their doom with her sweet tones.
Close your eyes and inhale and you might imagine you can still smell the deep, sweet tones of raw rump and sirloin; the retail meat tang that I recall from my days as a butcher's boy.
So well-known is this that I cannot imagine anyone is surprised to learn that Lin Miaoke was miming to the sweet tones of the even younger Yang Peiyi, deemed insufficiently pretty to take the stage.
Stilton, from the north of England, around Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, tends to be rich, creamy and salty, layered as it is with sweet tones of honey and sometimes molasses, as well as with leathery, even tobaccolike flavors.
If an expert like Pollens had accompanied me and pointed out the wonders of their construction, or if a virtuoso violinist like Joshua Bell had suddenly appeared to draw out their sweet tones, maybe I too would have caught the Stradivari fever.
He paid a price for this rare act of solidarity: when he tried to establish himself in the United States, where he moved in 1939, he made little headway, his slightly astringent tone failing to please audiences accustomed to the sweet tones of Heifetz and Kreisler.
