Tacked onto Puccini's most advanced score, Alfano's tame harmonic language seems a disappointing throwback.
An aide to the prime minister of India, which has sought to tame incendiary language on Twitter in the past, posted glimpses into his closed-door meeting with his Pakistani counterpart last weekend.
A woman who said she had driven in from Scranton, Pa., pulled Mr. Keller aside afterward and told him that his Christian center "needs to be here," but she asked if he could tame his language so he would not come across as such a firebrand.
After launching the country's first state-run (and predictably tame) Kurdish-language television station in January, the government hinted that it might let thousands of Turkified villages revert to their original Kurdish names.
'We encounter the world and tame it through language, but behind that is another world.' As contradictory as his fiction, he calls himself 'a classical pessimist', adding that he tries not to let this impact upon his life.
He has wisely tamed his own language — he once vowed to kill the Chechens even "in their outhouses" — and now he wants to "put an end to the resistance by illegal armed formations".
Stressing the characteristics of Bulgarian, we juxtapose the uniquely complex Tense-Aspect-Modality-Evidentiality (TAME) system of this language with those in other Slavic languages and in Romance with regards to variation in (un availability of a large variety of readings of imperfectives, including habitual, ongoing, intentional, and factual types.
But here his accessible Neo-Romantic musical language seems tame and derivative.
The objective is not to tame the chaos of language but to encourage learners to appreciate the dynamic qualities inherent in its use.
This being TNT, the language is tamer, as is the violence.
