Sentence examples for tone combined from inspiring English sources

His rich tone combined the fat-bottomed breathiness of Chicago tenor legends like Gene Ammons or Von Freeman with the yearning, searching cry of John Coltrane.

Gerald's speech at his son Toby's birthday party is an "oddly relished ordeal"; Toby's "tone combined candour and insincerity to oddly charming effect".

But it's all that muscle tone, combined with the headdress effect of the knot, that can make you see how the ghastly can become the regal.

That change of tone, combined with Ayatollah Khamenei's recent mild criticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, seems to have given Iranians license to express their frustration with their current situation and their longing for normal relations.

Like W. G. Sebald at his best, Lenz solicits the reader's grief through lexical restraint: the story's sedate tone, combined with its nautical-rural setting, perfectly renders the texture of a daydream.

"The Court of Appeal agreed that the interview had an extremely aggressive tone combined with constant interruptions, was full of insults, ranting, and lacked any substantive content and that it was a breach of generally accepted standards.

Its historical details are rich and authentic, and its tone combines sensory immediacy and ironic detachment.

Meanwhile, it scoffs at outsiders, such as "left-wing élitists," in a tone combining pity and concern.

Mr. Sparks favored a clean, flinty tone, combining the brisk harmonic fluency of bebop with the bite and feeling of the blues.

If you do something that's against it, the reviewers will initially recoil, because it's an alien presence; but if it's good they'll come round, even if they're still a bit nervous of you - hence Zoe Williams' tone, combining affirmation with hostility.

The supernatural is contrasted with and highlighted by mundane details and Clarke's tone combines arch wit with antiquarian quaintness.