Sentence examples for tone of time from inspiring English sources

Yet at the same time it was hard to miss the awkward, almost apologetic tone of Time's coverage, as if the magazine's editors were conscious of the fact that they were doing something irregular in giving such prominence to an unashamedly highbrow writer, one who has, moreover, often been criticised in the past for being aloof, curmudgeonly and elitist.

"The basic tone of Times criticism was middlebrow and allrightnik," he writes.

But poverty coverage does not have the regularity or the inclusive tone of Times coverage on the opposite end of the affluence spectrum, like Paul Sullivan's business feature "Wealth Matters," which is described as a column about "strategies that the wealthy use to manage their money and their overall well-being".

These stories are related casually but with gravity, reflecting the tone of time-worn, passed-down tales.

Elegiac in tone, this tale of time travel, loss and compromise is as precisely engineered as a Swiss watch.

I reminded him, in a resigned tone, of the time he did this, the time he did that.

4. Read an example of correspondence between a student and teacher or mentor from the past, such as Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" and analyze the difference between the language and tone of that time and today.

While Austen could ignore the "minutiae of dress and decor", Heyer included those details "to invest the novels ... with 'the tone of the time'".

Heyer's novels were known for their painstaking attention to detail, which she used to infuse the novels with the "tone of the time".

Most of the emotions they express are very obvious based on the body language, tone of voice, time frequency, pitch of voice, and the situation.

New York Times editorial Passing the Buck The Clintons are obviously alarmed about the moral tone of the times.