Sentence examples for tone flattened from inspiring English sources
Anyone who's had his intended tone flattened out or irony deleted by e-mail and had to explain himself knows what he means.
The show's overriding literate tone flattens the characters into stiff speechmakers.
This flattened tone seems, at first, like an affectation.
With his "Memphis Blues" (published 1912) and especially his "St . LouisBlues" (1914), he introduced a melancholic element, achieved chiefly by use of the "blue" or slightly flattened seventh tone of the scale, which was characteristic of African American folk music.
She seems alert to everything: the "feathered breaths" of her grandmother, how her "exhales were smooth and liquid, which seems to me now the surest sign of a life's exit — when the act of giving away air is easier than that of accepting it"; the way the dying woman's skin has "flattened a tone — and I mean it this way, like a piece of music gone off-key".
The song begins with austere, classical strings while the chord progression emphasizes tonic, submediant and flattened leading-tone chords.
Eastwood set the tone early with a massive hit that flattened Storm winger Sisa Waqa.
The endothelial cells are highly flattened cells and regulate vasomotor tone and hemostasis [ 4].
It continued to evolve — in 1999, the shields became flattened pillars bearing sculpted bronze wreaths — but the tone of stolid, bland classicism remained.
