Sentence examples for tenor from inspiring English sources

When the range of that soul-charged tenor first fully unfolded with his band Antony and the Johnsons in 2005, you had the sense of it coming out of nowhere, emerging, as the title of his breakthrough Mercury prize-winning album I Am a Bird Now suggested, as if from another, more aery, species entirely.

There were the much outweighed positives, too: the unrecognised acts of kindness and compassion; the many fine, uplifting speeches that go unreported because they do not fit the pugilistic tenor of question time; the fine people who really do get into politics to make a difference; and the families who make it work because of their belief in the nobility of public service.

These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.

The general tenor of this tech critique goes something like this: the poor schmucks don't know the first thing about this stuff; otherwise they wouldn't be signing up for "free" services that read their email and exploit their personal data; nor would they be storing their files – unencrypted – in the cloud, or enabling location services on their smartphones.

Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.

Warchus likens the tense, brittle, dysfunctional domestic milieu of Sicilia to the emotional tenor of The Man Who Wasn't There, while seeing parallels between joyful, comic Bohemia and the bucolic atmosphere of O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The 72-year-old Spanish tenor, Placido Domingo, made a surprise appearance conducting the overture from Verdi's "Nabucco .The concert did not end until long after midnight.

The tenor of his presidency would depend crucially on Congress: to restrain the social illiberalism and occasional isolationism of other Republicans, the best outcome would be a divided one, with the Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives.

But the letter set the tenor for the debate surrounding the festival.

Neither rock'n'roll nor hip-hop, the album is cinematic and cerebral, funky and fussy, its sound carved by Mr Costello's clear-cut tenor and Questlove's percussive snare.

That is a door the Supreme Court seems quite unwilling to open.The tenor of the argument on Tuesday suggests that Rabbi Ginsberg will not have his miles returned any time soon.