We sat down in our Loew's or Bijou or Pantages as strangers to each other but together absorbed fresh gestures, new tones of voice, and different tones of mind and style, as taught by the dashing, elegant, or stricken figures up on the screen: the same wished-for, uniting experience that sends us out to the movies today but too often in vain.
This part of the brain sets the emotional tone of the mind, promotes bonding, stores highly charged emotional memories and modulates motivation and libido.
In rock marches that had the triumphal tone of Simple Minds' songs, Pedro Frugone used plenty of U2's echoing guitar effects, while Mr. Cuevas emoted with the melodrama of Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode.
Despite his later scowling gravitas, the Russian author was, as Roper points out, a perpetual child, playful and provocative, high-spirited and spontaneous — qualities central to the tone and turn of mind of "Lolita".
But, in the end, the most lasting image was less of any particular moment or celebrity but of the tone and habit of mind manifested by Buffett and Munger during the question-and-answer marathon.
Lyell's theories about the formation of the earth broke the time barrier and his book, Darwin found, "altered the tone of one's mind".
Perhaps she was making sure that he was not with someone else, because sometimes she seemed about to cry — this could be inferred from the tone of voice, never mind the language.
This task also engaged frontotemporal auditory working memory processes (pitch and verbal) presumably to support the retention of tones "in mind" while associating their verbal labels.
Read an autobiography of one of today's internationals and it is all about focus, intensity and other vague but tough-sounding expressions gleaned from the sports psychologists who tone up the mind of the modern pro.
Wellek and Warren consider patterns of sound as inherent to the text; these must be analyzed while keeping the meaning (or general emotional tone) in mind.
