During the election campaign Erdogan adopted a harsher and more nationalistic tone which, critics say, has alienated many Kurds.
In recent weeks, Mr. Chávez has adopted an increasingly confrontational tone with critics abroad, who have been multiplying even in friendly countries with moderate leftist governments like Brazil and Chile.
Though the church didn't exactly embrace Darwin's radical ideas, the clarity of his arguments and his evenhanded tone disarmed critics who would dismiss his book as the ranting of a heretic.
Striking an uncharacteristically harmonious and conciliatory tone, longtime critics of the police like the Rev. Al Sharpton joined law enforcement officials from across New York State in a gathering yesterday to examine what could be done to combat police brutality.
These appraisals were meant for government officials' eyes only, and were kept under wraps, but their judgments on what could and couldn't be printed nevertheless set the tone among critics, authors, and publishers, who scrambled to bring out what they could under the circumstances.
In confident and insistent tones, these critics cited the classical scholars and insisted that nothing in Islamic law could justify the tactics used by Al Qaeda.
Beck then introduces the melody line on electric guitar with a fuzz-tone effect producing indefinite sustain; alternating between major and minor modes, it is described as "haunting" by Power and as a "distinctive piercing, sinister tone" by critic Richie Unterberger.
For Mr. Romney, who has treated previous job reports somewhat gingerly, the latest numbers elicited a searing tone, one that critics said edged into hyperbole.
We need to survive this.'" Sekhabi and composer Mpho Matome faced a challenge to capture the right tone, and some critics in Grahamstown suggested they had failed to escape the "celebratory" essence of musicals.
Most noticeably, the magazine dispenses with the tone that the critic Alexander Cockburn described as "cookbook pastoral" — the sense that the ideal dinner is a sit-down for 16 with candlelight and hydrangea and unbridled toasting, a pseudo-Mediterranean hedonism that precludes wailing toddlers and mismatched silverware.
