Sentence examples similar to tone clipped from inspiring English sources

He likes fat, sludgy tones and clipped attacks, often repeating a note as if he were throttling it.

If the person's tone is flat, clipped and uninterested, it may be better to find another reference.

With a priceless expression and beautifully clipped tone, in five words he got in subconscious references to Hannibal Lecter, Kenneth Williams and Quentin Crisp.

"Do you know, it might even be for the best," simpers the conniving Lady Persie in her beautifully clipped tones.

He chose his profession after being told, as a high-school senior, that his personality suited the business; he moves with stiff formality and speaks in soft, clipped tones.

This quietly sumptuous movie — the air is soft, and everyone speaks in clipped tones — was adapted from a dynastic novel by Jacques Chardonne, which begins in 1900 and traces for three decades the interlocked affairs of two large haut-bourgeois Protestant families, one of which controls a cognac company in the Charente section of France, the other a porcelain factory in Limoges.

A suntanned lizard of a man, cigarette permanently in hand, he seemed almost immobile apart from the quick precise movement of his thin lips and the flash of brilliant teeth; his distinctive, much-imitated, clipped tones and his sharply witty one-liners were legendary, but he seemed an incongruous figure in the Britain of the early 1960s.

"No," I told the clerk in the clipped, firm tone I reserve for such encounters.

To be followed by a pure, plain statement, full of the clipped sharp tone of the Anglo-Saxon.

The ostensible drama is a tortured duet between a man and a woman, qualified, in Ratmansky's way, by a kind of clipped, objective tone.

She did her job perfectly and gently, much to Saul's quiet satisfaction, and when Brody finally admitted the vest plot, her tone became instantly more clipped and business-like as she snapped back to work.