"Donovan, this is the big nest," Mr. Carton explained in a bright tone, holding a handmade nest of twigs next to Donovan's hand.
(In tone, "Holding the Man" is perhaps closest to the American film "Longtime Companion," which was released a long time ago now).
With little preamble, he began to read, in an even tone, holding the book in one hand, his eyes fixed on the page.
He won the presidency promising to crack down on leftist rebels, but today President-elect Álvaro Uribe Vélez struck a conciliatory tone, holding out the possibility of negotiating with guerrilla commanders under United Nations mediation.
Its industrialized melodic tone holds an addictive zone out desire, one that takes over with rising urgency.
Based on this experimental index, we were able to reveal the novel finding that a crucial determinant for successful revival of cardiac arrest is that spontaneous circulation must resume before brain stem death commences, and that maintained functional integrity of the RVLM, leading to sustained sympathetic vasomotor tone, holds the key to this vital time-window.
As reality dissolved into an incorporeal intertwining of musical lines, the lovers were incapable of obeying, or even of hearing, Brangane's cry of "Beware!" By Wagnerian design, we in the audience didn't get the message, either: Brangane's warning, with its tones held over many beats, with its chords floating like lanterns in fog, blended all too smoothly with the whole.
Playing long tones (holding one note for a long time) does two good things.
Hold down the tone hold rings on the upper section.
