Sentence examples for taking a tone from inspiring English sources

Debbie, my wife, puts a hand on my arm her signal that I'm either taking a tone, interrupting someone's story, sharing something private, or making an inappropriate joke.

Method wants to be considered "fun, human," Mr. Ryan says, and the campaign helps accomplish that by taking a tone he describes as " 'Flight of the Conchords' meets Willy Wonka".

His later work is expansive, shedding punctuation as it sprawls across lines and stanzas, taking a tone that is more than human, surveying the past, as well as the present, with a kind of vastness that few American poets can manage.

You just say (without shrinking or puffing up or taking a "tone").: "No, I'm not comfortable doing that".

When it comes to race, he is measured, careful not to offend, or go too far and risk alienating anyone or taking a tone that might come off as "angry" or accusatory.

Taking a tone that was conciliatory at times but mainly tough, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with ABC's "This Week" that the U.S. and Iran had taken the "first step in removing the tensions, doubts and misgivings that the two sides have had about each other for the last 30-some years".

After an initial crashing organ chord, the piece takes a tone of cool contemplation.

Newspaper features usually took a tone of voyeuristic horror about the lives of the lower classes.

— Duke Coach John Danoswki took a tone of pride when talking about his departing fifth-year seniors.

In the Ha'aretz interview, Morris took a tone that was in scant evidence in his earlier journalism or scholarly work.

In this case, Alaska/Horizon's official response was too slow (a day is an eternity in social media) and took a tone that backfired on the company.