Sentence examples for tone familiar from inspiring English sources
It's too easy, today, to love Pialat's films, precisely because their influence has rendered their style and tone familiar.
"But you can't always have what you want in this life," Judith said, in a tone familiar to all parents.
Its tone, familiar from science fiction, echoes the purifying language of purges and revolutions: "We must understand the key generative structure of bad government.
The President sounded put out; it was a tone familiar not from his best speeches after the September attacks but, rather, from his more feckless moments during the 2000 campaign.
The frequent result is a distinctive wittiness, a lightness and swiftness of tone familiar to readers of Muriel Spark (another writer interested in combining short views and long views).
In a tone familiar from today's anti-Muslim polemics, and using the usual toxic cocktail of absurdly inflated numbers, hysterical overstatement, and guilt by association (many anarchists were Jews), Drumont managed to convince readers that France's real crisis was the decline of Christianity.
Fans will of course have been hoping for the unmistakeable astringent camp of the singer's own Mancunian tones – familiar from decades of indie hits and acid public comments on his rivals – to deliver his memoir himself.
Her smallest works since the 1960's, they are painted in pale bands of watered-down primary colors: red, yellow and blue, a springlike departure from the gray tones familiar to Martin devotees.
In making his argument, LaPierre preaches to the choir in the apocalyptic tones familiar to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the gun group's rhetoric: "gun abolitionists claim Mexican gun laws are so strict that our 'weak laws' (read: freedoms) are to blame for 'fueling the violence' in Mexico".
Rosen's tone is familiar by now, questioning the illogic of the adult world with the straightforwardness of childhood.
The tone was familiar; at times, the debate had descended into little more than a slanging match, candidates speaking angrily over each other.
