The comedy is actually quite ambitious: It combines on-screen text, subversive narration, multiple plot threads, a variety of tones and twice the number of scenes that most one-hour TV shows shoot.
Directors are master of tone".
There is no common thread of African art, no predominant theme, medium or tone. .
Ms. Smith loved them both, and her tender recollections give the movie, narrated in lofty memorial tones by Joan Juliet Buck, a necessary thread of warmth.
But Griffey never failed to make himself heard, and several times he seized attention not with stentorian tones but with a slender thread of lovely sound, as in the abbreviated aria "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades," in Act I.
"If you want to play in the Olympics you have to compete against Google and Facebook," he said, before himself losing the thread of his over-extended comparison as he talked about toning up and practicing.
Directed by David Yates, the film strikes a tone of bleak darkness, yet contains the thread of hope that The Boy Who Lived can save the world, once and for all, from the Dark Arts uprising.
At the same time, there is a thread of melancholy running through this volume, rarely articulated, yet informing the tone and moderating the theatricality of his performing self.
I excused myself, apologized profusely in a calm and respectful tone, all desperately trying to keep some kind of thread of a safety net of civility, both for him and for me.
The book's subject and structure fuse pleasingly, weaving and meandering, changing pace and tone, pooling into biographical, mythical or historical backwaters before picking up the thread of Laing's riparian journey again.
