Sentence examples for tone live from inspiring English sources

Two men in blazers would pick the teams from a velvet bag at Lancaster Gate, the Football Association's old headquarters in central London on Monday lunchtime and former FA chief executive Graham Kelly would announce the ties in his distinctive high-pitched tone live on radio.

He was, instead, an Emmy-winning television producer and director, working for the sportscaster Howard Cosell, whose stentorian tones live on in amateur impressions long after the death of their maker.

The album features undistorted guitar tones, live takes, no drum triggering, and relatively quiet mastering, with a musical style combining ambient, progressive rock, jazz rock, and psychedelic blues.

Our neighbours (parents of my best friend, Lindy) were probably my role models; they seemed to speak in hushed tones, lived by what appeared to be clockwork routine and never displayed emotion of any sort in public, unlike our volcanic household.

When asked about his ability to take on apparently taboo topics without retribution, Mr. Oskouei said in measured tones, "We live in a very particular social and political situation".

The speech is also notable for a change in tone on living standards, terrain that has been pursued by Ed Miliband, in which Cameron makes repeated admissions that times are tough and fragile for families, rather than boasts about a surge in incomes under the coalition.

It's that time of year: when a solid-food allergy seems to supplant the formerly chic gluten allergy among lean girls in Times Square restaurants, when I'm still feeling gorged on holiday candy, and the books coming in are filled with recommendations about how to whittle down my thighs, tone my belly, live healthy (hell, even live forever).

By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn January 13 , 2010It's that time of year: when a solid-food allergy seems to supplant the formerly chic gluten allergy among lean girls in Times Square restaurants, when I'm still feeling gorged on holiday candy, and the books coming in are filled with recommendations about how to whittle down my thighs, tone my belly, live healthy (hell, even live forever).

(Image Fishh Balls by Jim Tierney, from Flickr) It's that time of year: when a solid-food allergy seems to supplant the formerly chic gluten allergy among lean girls in Times Square restaurants, when I'm still feeling gorged on holiday candy, and the books coming in are filled with recommendations about how to whittle down my thighs, tone my belly, live healthy (hell, even live forever).

The announcer always neglected to add that the inventor of twelve-tone music lived a few houses away.

By the next morning, the TV news had moved on, but the two-tone map lived on as a distorted image of the electorate's decision.