Then, in 1965, came an encounter that would radically change the tone, emphasis and direction of Holt's life.
For Mr. Mawejje, Uganda's reigning Koran reciting champion, the flight provided a last chance to study the masters, listening to how they calibrated their tone, emphasis and vibrations to the drama and import of the holy book's verses.
Albert Mehrabian, a psychologist who studies nonverbal communication, says that in expressing feelings and attitudes, just 7percentt of a speaker's message comes from words alone; 38percentt comes from tone, emphasis and other attributes of speech; and 55percentt comes from facial expressions and other nonverbal gestures.
"Providing guidance to a select few through a combination of spoken language, tone, emphasis and demeanor, is precisely the kind of unfair advantage that the S.E.C. wants to prevent," said Paul R. Berger, the associate director of enforcement at the commission.
However, despite the valuable insights offered by all chapters, the tone, emphasis and quality of the contributions are somewhat uneven, with rather limited attempts to link some of the individual chapters explicitly to the book's main themes and arguments, or to the analytical tools presented in the framing chapters.
For example: –On Sept. 9, 2003, the SEC announced a settled case against Schering-Plough in which the company agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and the SEC alleged that Schering's senior vice president of investor relations disclosed negative, material, nonpublic information to analysts and institutional investors "through a combination of spoken language, tone, emphasis and demeanor".
Yet he deftly calculated his pacing, tone and emphasis.
Political perception is shaped by tone and emphasis.
Slope is also master of tone and emphasis - a Victorian PR man.
Inside the government, each new reported remark by Ayatollah Khamenei is scrutinized for nuanced changes in tone and emphasis.
At the same time he doesn't settle into a familiar rhythm, his tone and emphasis as unpredictable as a monologue by Christopher Walken.
